Guard News - The National Guard - Year 2020

Command teams learn about resilience training at horse park
August 18, 2020 — LEXINGTON, Ky. – Kentucky National Guard leaders took part in a resilience-training demonstration at the Kentucky Horse Park Aug. 4. The purpose of the event was to raise awareness of the many...

Wisconsin Guard endures desert training, COVID adjustments
August 18, 2020 — MADISON, Wis. – A training cycle at Fort Irwin, California’s National Training Center in the Mojave Desert, is never easy. Factor in the COVID-19 pandemic and the difficulty increases...

NY Guard's 109th firefighters ready for fast-water rescues
August 18, 2020 — SCOTIA, N.Y. – New York Air National Guard firefighters assigned to the 109th Airlift Wing are ready at a moment’s notice to respond to an aircraft incident or help out a local fire department.But the...

Iowa National Guard helps with derecho cleanup
August 18, 2020 — CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa – Nearly 200 Soldiers and Airmen have been mobilized to eastern Iowa to help emergency management crews clear and remove debris from the devastating Aug. 10 derecho. Since beginning...

New Hampshire National Guard helps state fight COVID-19
August 17, 2020 — CONCORD, N.H. – At the Department of Health and Human Services in Concord, employees and members of the New Hampshire National Guard have been packing and tracking tens of thousands of COVID-19...

Virginia National Guard Soldier marks cyber 1st
August 17, 2020 — FAIRFAX, Va. – Maj. Waldon W. Jue became the first Army National Guard Soldier to direct commission as a cyber operations officer July 30.Maj. Gen. Timothy P. Williams, the adjutant general of...

Fort Indiantown Gap hosts officer candidate field exercise
August 17, 2020 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – Officer candidates conducted their final Field Leadership Exercise (FLX) as they worked toward commissioning as officers in the Army National Guard Aug. 4-6.The candidates...

Airmen from the 124th FW simulate evacuation in rural Idaho
August 17, 2020 — HORSESHOE BEND, Idaho – Airmen from the 124th Fighter Wing partnered with the U.S. Navy Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Four from North Island Naval Air Station, California, to complete non-combatant...

Deployed father and son promoted together
August 17, 2020 — FORT HOOD, Texas – What are the odds?A father and son both serve in the military, wind up in the same battalion, get sent on the same deployment, get promoted at the same time (one to the rare rank of...

114th Fighter Wing trains with AWACS reserve squadron
August 17, 2020 — SIOUX FALLS, S.D. – 970th Airborne Air Control Squadron and 513th Maintenance Group reserve Airmen from Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, trained with the 114th Fighter Wing at Joe Foss Field in South...

Alaska Air National Guard Airmen rescue firefighter
August 17, 2020 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Alaska Air National Guard members of the 176th Wing rescued an Anchorage Fire Department firefighter Aug. 16 near Beluga Point south of Anchorage near the...

Puerto Rico Guard receives disaster relief beddown systems
August 14, 2020 — CAROLINA, Puerto Rico – The Puerto Rico Air National Guard is now the proud owner of two Disaster Relief Beddown Systems, improving its ability to respond to disasters on the island.After Hurricane...

Historic Polish, U.S. partnership continues in Kosovo
August 14, 2020 — CAMP BONDSTEEL, Kosovo – Shoulder to shoulder, bracing against the midday July heat and dawning North Atlantic Treaty Organization-campaign ‘KFOR’ patches, nearly a dozen Polish and U.S. Soldiers...

Kentucky National Guard MP train for casualty evacuations
August 14, 2020 — RICHMOND, Ky. – Soldiers of the 617th Military Police Company, Rear Detachment, conducted casualty evacuation training on Bluegrass Army Depot Aug. 12.A UH-60 Black Hawk crew from Bravo Company, 2nd...

Soldier serves state and nation as judge and Guardsman
August 14, 2020 — WAUKESHA, Wis. – Waukesha County’s newest circuit court judge has a long history of public service as a Citizen-Soldier in the Wisconsin National Guard. Maj. Jack Melvin, senior defense counsel with...

42nd Infantry Division marks 103 years of service
August 13, 2020 — UNDISCLOSED LOCATION – The 42nd Infantry Division was formed in August 1917, supposedly earning its nickname, "the Rainbow Division," after Col. Douglas MacArthur, then chief of staff, said the...

Kansas Guard trains the trainers, takes on fitness culture
August 13, 2020 — SALINA, Kan. - Sixteen Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 161st Field Artillery Regiment, 130th Field Artillery Brigade, trained to become the Kansas Army National Guard’s newest validated graders for the...

Michigan Guard conducts MORTEP certification training
August 13, 2020 — CAMP GRAYLING, Mich. – Members of a Michigan National Guard unit are improving their skills as mortarmen during annual training at Camp Grayling Maneuver Training Center in northern Michigan. “We are...

177th Fighter Wing ends New Jersey COVID-19 response mission
August 12, 2020 — ATLANTIC CITY AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.J. – The New Jersey National Guard's 177th Fighter Wing has ended its more than four-month support of the state in its battle against COVID-19."We are off the...

NY National Guard assists in Isaias storm response
August 12, 2020 — CARMEL, N.Y. – New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen delivered water, ice and dry ice to Putnam County residents and removed debris in Queens Aug. 6-8 in the aftermath of Tropical Storm...

Retired Texas Air National Guard Pilot Recalls Protecting Air Force One on 9/11

Nebraska Guard Strengthens Disaster Response Readiness

Kentucky Guard Strengthens Skills During Patriot 2026

113th Wing Recognized for Air Defense, Combat Performance

Washington Guard Concludes Extended Wildfire Response