Guard News - The National Guard - Year 2021

Connecticut Guard, Uruguay continue 21-year partnership
June 24, 2021 — HARTFORD, Conn. – Members of the Armed Forces Mission of Uruguay visited Connecticut June 14-17 as part of a 21-year relationship with the Connecticut National Guard under the State Partnership...

New England Soldiers, Airmen join cybersecurity exercise
June 24, 2021 — HARTFORD, Conn. – Cyber Soldiers and Airmen from around New England gathered June 14-18 at Joint Base Cape Cod to participate in the seventh annual Cyber Yankee cybersecurity exercise.The exercise...

MXG removes tail from Utah Air Guard KC-135R
June 24, 2021 — SALT LAKE CITY – On June 2, Members from the Utah Air National Guard's 151st Maintenance Group and the Kansas Air National Guard's 190th Maintenance Group took on the monumental task of removing the...

Nebraska Air National Guard SFS takes on Patriot 21
June 24, 2021 — VOLK FIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Wis. — Airmen of the 155th Security Forces Squadron and other National Guard units and partners worked through a mock natural disaster exercise at Patriot 21 in...

Learning from the past helps prepare leaders for the future
June 24, 2021 — SHARPSBURG, Md. – As part of continuing professional development, National Guard members toured Antietam National Battlefield recently, taking in the details of one of the bloodiest days in American...

188th Medical Group completes casualty care training
June 23, 2021 — EBBING AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ark. – Twenty-one Arkansas Air National Guard Airmen from the 188th Medical Group completed an intensive Tactical Combat Casualty Care course June 3-4. The training...

South Carolina National Guard attends cyber boot camp
June 23, 2021 — CHARLESTON, S.C. - South Carolina National Guard Soldiers attended The Citadel Department of Defense Cyber Institute's inaugural National Guard Cyber Boot Camp June 7-18.Twenty-Eight South Carolina...

Wisconsin cavalry spur ride blends tough training, tradition
June 23, 2021 — FORT MCCOY, Wis. – Wisconsin Army National Guard cavalry troopers connected tough, mission-focused individual training with cavalry tradition and the centennial celebration of a historic Wisconsin...

Vermont Guardsman receives Soldier’s Medal for 2020 rescue
June 23, 2021 — JERICHO, Vermont – On Feb. 29, 2020, Sgt. 1st Class Dustin Dearborn, a Vermont Army National Guard instructor at the Army Mountain Warfare School, responded to an emergency call from State Police to...

Winning team built during Warfighter 21-05
June 23, 2021 — CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind. – A warfighter exercise tests the capability of geographically dispersed, division-level elements and molds them into a team capable of deploying, winning and coming home...

Michigan Army Guard military police conduct annual training
June 23, 2021 — AUGUSTA, Mich. – Annual training is underway for about 70 Michigan Army National Guard members of the 1776th Military Police Company, including weapons qualification. "We're getting individual...

WANG's 1041st Transportation Company trains in Montana
June 23, 2021 — CAMP MURRAY, Wash. – After eight months of planning and preparing, the transportation specialists from the 1041st Transportation Company made it to Fort Harrison, Montana, to conduct the unit’s...

WANG chemical company conducts annual training
June 22, 2021 — RICHLAND, Wash. – Given its mission, the 792nd Chemical Company is trained for a variety of unexpected situations. However, the last year presented unimaginable challenges that placed training on...

SCNG helps provide free medical care in Midwest training
June 22, 2021 — SIKESTON, Mo. – More than 40 Airmen from the South Carolina Air National Guard traveled to the Midwest to help provide free medical and food services to hundreds of people in underserved...

Kansas National Guard medics team up for advanced training
June 22, 2021 — FORT CARSON, Colo. – Soldiers with the 1077th Medical Company – Ground Ambulance, Kansas Army National Guard, participated in Medic Sustainment 24-Hour training, an advanced course testing them on a...

106th Medical Group hones med tech trauma management skills
June 21, 2021 — WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. – Simulated casualties were all around them. Twenty people lay dead or dying in the mass casualty exercise.Walking wounded "victims" were also arriving, all in need of...

Oregon Guard participates in emergency preparedness exercise
June 21, 2021 — WARRENTON, Ore. - Following a monumental season of wildfires, ice storms and the pandemic over the past year, emergency preparedness has become less of an afterthought and more of a necessary priority...

West Virginia, Qatar formalize military partnership
June 21, 2021 — DOHA, Qatar – Brig. Gen. William Crane, the adjutant general of the West Virginia National Guard, and Staff Brigadier Khalid Al-Khayareen, director of the International Forces Affairs Directory for...

Indiana Guard's 338th Quartermaster executes historic drop
June 21, 2021 — CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind. – Soldiers with the 338th Quartermaster Theater Aerial Delivery Company dropped a joint precision aerial delivery system attached to a 2,000-pound training bundle from 10,000 feet...

116th IBCT Soldiers train on new recoilless rifle system
June 21, 2021 — FORT PICKETT, Va. – Virginia and Kentucky National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Staunton-based 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team trained on the M3E1 Multi-purpose Anti-armor Anti-personnel Weapon...

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