Guard News - The National Guard - Year 2019

Florida Guard discusses capabilities for hurricane season
June 12, 2019 — STARKE, Fla. – Ahead of any dangerous hurricane or potential natural disaster, the governor of Florida has the authority to activate the state's National Guard. Since the numbers and specific...

Nevada National Guardsmen collaborate with Romanian engineers
June 12, 2019 — CINCU, Romania – Imagine sweltering heat, skin sticking to your uniform, humidity causing sweat to pour out from under your helmet and stinging your eyes as you squint uneasily through a brutal...

North Dakota Guard leaders meet key leaders in Romanian city
June 12, 2019 — SLOBOZIA, Romania – Saber Guardian 19 is an exercise about bringing allies together and working alongside each other to maintain relationships based on trust that are essential for ensuring global...

Resident opens heart and home to Oklahoma Guard members
June 11, 2019 — SAND SPRINGS, Okla. – Two weeks ago, a man named Bob and the Soldiers of Headquarters Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 279th Infantry Regiment had never met. They would have never met. They would...

Alaska Guard members rescue bear-attack victim near Galena
June 11, 2019 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Airmen with the Alaska Rescue Coordination Center, the Alaska Air National Guard's 210th, 211th, and 212th Rescue Squadrons, as well as Soldiers of the Alaska...

S.C. National Guard tests Soldiers during night fire drill
June 10, 2019 — EASTOVER, S.C. – The South Carolina National Guard’s 218th Regional Training Institute conducted a fire emergency evacuation drill on Saturday at 1:30 a.m. to test the response of Soldiers staying in...

Minnesota Guard partners with Kuwait peers for terror drill
June 10, 2019 — KUWAIT CITY, Kuwait – Kuwait Special Forces soldiers, armed with automatic weapons, quickly navigate four tactical vehicles through a compound and come to a screeching halt at strategic locations in...

D-Day anniversary provides a reminder partnerships matter
June 9, 2019 — OMAHA BEACH, NORMANDY, France – From his VIP vantage point high above Omaha Beach, looking out across the sand and the English Channel with eyes wide open, Leonard Jindra sees sand, water and a lone...

New York Soldier is honored for his academic work
June 7, 2019 — ALBANY, N.Y. – For the past couple of years, when Maj. Keith Casserly wasn’t on the job as unit commander of the New York Army National Guard’s Medical Command, he’s been in class, the library, or...

Civil engineer Airmen learn disaster skills at Global Dragon
June 7, 2019 — PERRY, Ga. – Civil engineer operations students from the 147th Attack Wing learned route-clearing skills during Exercise Global Dragon 2019, held at the Guardian Centers of Georgia, May 29. In the...

Emergency Management Airmen suit up at Global Dragon 2019 
June 7, 2019 — PERRY, Ga. – Emergency Management team members held a Level-A Olympics, donning chemical protective gear before participating in various training games during Exercise Global Dragon 2019, June 3, at...

Bilateral affairs officer’s work paves the way in Malaysia
June 7, 2019 — CAMP MURRAY, Wash. – Helping servicemembers navigate Malaysian customs processes and meeting with high-ranking military officers and government officials is all in a day's work for Maj. Chyteira Dues,...

N.Y. National Guard leaders honor World War II vets on D-Day
June 7, 2019 — ALBANY, N.Y. – New York National Guard leaders honored World War II veterans of the allied landings of Normandy on the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion with presentations of state medals at five...

S.C. Air maintainers overcome harsh conditions in Sweden
June 6, 2019 — KALLAX AIR BASE, SWEDEN – After years of perfecting how to operate in overseas desert environments, the Swamp Foxes from the South Carolina Air National Guard (SCANG) flipped the script by deploying...

Kentucky Air Guard to airdrop troops for 75th D-Day event
June 6, 2019 — LOUISVILLE, Ky. – The Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Airlift Wing deployed more than 30 Airmen and two C-130 Hercules aircraft to Europe on June 1, where they will participate in the 75th...

Missouri Air National Guard members support flood relief
June 6, 2019 — JEFFERSON CITY, Missouri – Since Memorial Day, members of the Missouri National Guard have been supporting local communities in Missouri respond to historic flooding in the region. In Hardin, about...

105th Airlift Wing Airmen conduct annual escape training
June 5, 2019 — STEWART AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. – Among the mountains, woods, and water of the Hudson Valley, aircrew members with the 137th Airlift Squadron of the 105th Airlift Wing completed combat survival...

Ohio National Guard veterans remember D-Day
June 5, 2019 — COLUMBUS, Ohio – On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of beaches at Normandy, France, for the D-Day invasion. Two Ohio National Guard units, the 112th Combat...

Kansas Army National Guard engineers support 116th CBCT
June 4, 2019 — FORT IRWIN, Calif. – Two companies from the Kansas Army National Guard’s 891st Engineer Battalion are completing a rotation at the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California, to prepare to...

New York National Guard responds to Lake Ontario flooding
June 4, 2019 — ROCHESTER, N.Y. - Members of the New York Army and Air National Guard, the New York Naval Militia and the New York Guard have filled 230,730 sandbags and emplaced 78,966 of them since being placed on...

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

Alaska Air National Guard Rescues Four From Plane Crash

Modular Airborne System Delivers One Million Gallons of Fire Retardant