Guard News - The National Guard - Year 2016

Texas Guard members support Emergency Network Tracking for disasters
May 18, 2016 — ROUND ROCK, Texas -The Texas Division of Emergency Management, part of the Department of Public Safety, is rolling out a new resource to help evacuees during disasters. As a longtime partner within...

South Carolina National Guard prepares for hurricane season
May 17, 2016 — COLUMBIA, S.C. - One storm can change the lives of so many. For citizens of South Carolina, "Hurricane Season" has real meaning. Because of the heightened potential for destructive storms from June...

Maryland Air Guard member earns track medals at Invictus Games
May 16, 2016 — ORLANDO, Fla., May 13, 2016 — Air Force Staff Sgt. Gideon Connelly, a Maryland Air National Guard member with the 175th Wing, earned a silver medal in the 4-by-100 relay and bronze medals in the...

Minnesota National Guard to begin largest rail movement in more than a decade
May 13, 2016 — CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. – Over 1,300 pieces of military equipment from the Minnesota National Guard will be loaded onto rail cars for movement from Camp Ripley beginning Saturday and ending May 21. "The...

Indiana hosts Vibrant Response to prepare responders for nuclear bomb detonation
May 12, 2016 — CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind. - Soldiers gathered here May 8-15 to kick off the second week of Vibrant Response 16, an annual exercise that prepares military and civilian emergency response personnel to react...

Spouses of South Carolina National Guard and Colombian leadership share family readiness concepts
May 11, 2016 — BOGOTA, Colombia - While many exchanges between the South Carolina National Guard and its State Partnership Program match Colombia have focused on mission readiness, one key aspect that the South...

South Dakota Soldier named Army National Guard Logistician of the Year
May 11, 2016 — RAPID CITY, S.D. – The South Dakota Army National Guard's Staff Sgt. Anson Juelfs has been named the Army National Guard's Logistician of the Year for 2015. Juelfs, a middle school wrestling coach who...

Value of dual-status commanders seen for complex events
May 10, 2016 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa.– More than 50 members of both the Pennsylvania Air and Army National Guard supported an emergency preparedness training event alongside active duty military members and...

Florida National Guard member selected as Inspector General Soldier of the Year
May 9, 2016 — ARLINGTON, Va.—Sgt. 1st Class William Hughes, assigned to the Joint Force Headquarters, Florida National Guard, recently earned the title of 2016 National Guard Bureau Inspector General Soldier of the...

Army Guard tank crew wins Sullivan Cup
May 6, 2016 — FORT BENNING, Ga. — A tank crew with the North Carolina Army National Guard was named the Army’s best tank crew, taking first place in the biennial Sullivan Cup Precision Gunnery Competition at Fort...

As wildfire season approaches, Air teams practice with MAFFS units
May 6, 2016 — CHANNEL ISLANDS AIR NATIONAL GUARD STATION, Calif. – More than 400 Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve Airmen from across the country gathered this week to be certified on the military's Modular...

Today celebrates and honors military spouses
May 6, 2016 — WASHINGTON — Noting that military spouses "demonstrate a strength reflective of the spirit of our nation," President Barack Obama signed a proclamation declaring today as Military Spouse Appreciation...

New York Army National Guard cooks take their shot at winning Army-wide cooking challenge
May 3, 2016 — CAMP SMITH TRAINING SITE, N.Y. - Preparation paid off as eight cooks from the New York Army National Guard's 642nd Aviation Support Battalion took their shot at winning the annual Army-wide cooking...

Collaboration the catchphrase during chief of the National Guard Bureau’s visit to New Mexico
May 3, 2016 — SANTA FE, N.M. – Gen. Frank J. Grass, Chief of the National Guard Bureau, visited New Mexico National Guard Airmen and Soldiers April 29-30. He toured much of the state via Army and Air Force aircraft...

‘Friendly Islands’ hospitality on display during weapons tactics, techniques exchange
May 2, 2016 — NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga – The Kingdom of Tonga proved once again recently why it is known as the "Friendly Islands" after hosting another State Partnership Program exchange with members of the Nevada...

Rice confirmed as Air Guard director; to receive third star
April 29, 2016 — WASHINGTON – Air Force Maj. Gen. Scott Rice, the adjutant general of the Massachusetts National Guard, was confirmed Thursday as the next director of the Air National Guard by the U.S. Senate. Rice...

Long before smartphones, National Guard responded to nationwide muster in Operation Minuteman
April 28, 2016 — ATLANTA - In April, 1955, the National Guard's 400,000-strong force responded within two hours to an unprecedented activation exercise. Operation Minuteman, conceived by Maj. Gen. Edgar Erickson,...

Texas Air Guard, in partnership with Chile, conducts medical training
April 27, 2016 — SANTIAGO, Chile—The morning after the ending of FIDAE 2016, the flight line at Fuerza Aerea De Chile in Santiago, emptied except for the lone C-130H2 Hercules aircraft from the 136th Airlift Wing,...

Braving temps of -47, New York Airmen build snow runway in High Arctic
April 26, 2016 — LITTLE CORNWALLIS ISLAND, Nunavut, Canada—Eight Airmen from the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing spent two weeks carving a snow and ice "ski-way" on this uninhabited High Arctic Island...

North Dakota Guard helps outfit national ambulance service in Ghana
April 22, 2016 — ACCRA, Ghana — The North Dakota National Guard, through its State Partnership Program (SPP), along with U.S. Africa Command last week assisted with the delivery of more than $7,300 in medical...

New York Guardsmen Earn Danish Military March Ribbon

Kentucky Guard Builds Portable Air Base for Patriot 26

Three Components, One Army: LaNeve Stresses Guard’s Role in Army’s New Priorities

Pennsylvania Guardsmen Demonstrate Drone Innovation Project

Nordhaus, Raines Outline a National Guard Focused on the Future