Guard News - The National Guard - Year 2021

Minnesota National Guard responds to latest COVID surge
November 10, 2021 — CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. – Minnesota National Guard Soldiers and Airmen were activated this month to support the state's COVID-19 response once again.As coronavirus cases in Minnesota continue to overwhelm...

Obstacles don't slow Pennsylvania Guard chaplain assistant
November 10, 2021 — MIDDLETOWN, Pa. – Over snaking slant walls and treacherous jumps, under menacing barbed wire and slogging up a steep climb with a 50-pound sack of sagging sand, Master Sgt. Joshua March pushed through...

Vermont Guard reflects on Marine Corps' 246th birthday
November 10, 2021 — COLCHESTER, Vt. – Each year on Nov. 10, the U.S. Marine Corps celebrates the day in 1775 when the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution establishing two battalions of Marines as a landing...

National Guard, Israel reaffirm 15-year partnership
November 9, 2021 — TEL AVIV, Israel – The chief of the National Guard Bureau and the commanding general of Israel’s Home Front Command reaffirmed the National Guard Bureau’s 15-year bilateral relationship with Israel...

Virginia Maneuver Training Center helps spread UXO awareness
November 9, 2021 — FORT PICKETT, Va. – Soldiers and civilians assigned to the Army National Guard Maneuver Training Center Fort Pickett completed a two-day “train the trainer” course taught by the U.S. Army Corps of...

NY Army Guard uses NYC as an urban operations training lab
November 8, 2021 — NEW YORK - New York Army National Guard officers and senior sergeants used New York City as a laboratory to explore the challenges of military operations in big cities during a five-day class that...

Red Tails participate in ACE exercise
November 8, 2021 — MONTGOMERY, Ala. – The 187th Fighter Wing participated in a combat exercise Nov. 1-6 throughout the southeast United States.Southern Lightning Strike, designed around Agile Combat Employment, included...

Nebraska ANG cybersecurity team keeps network safe
November 8, 2021 — LINCOLN AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. – In 2021 alone, America's energy sector, power plants, food supply, water supply, health care, law enforcement and defense sector have all come under...

Maine Airman helps strengthen Montenegro partnership
November 8, 2021 — BANGOR, Maine – Maine Air National Guard Maj. Carolyn Richley and her family have been in Montenegro for more than a year as part of the Department of Defense State Partnership Program.Every...

104th FW conducts midpoint inspection readiness exercise
November 8, 2021 — BARNES AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. - Barnestormers across the 104th Fighter Wing conducted a readiness exercise as part of the wing's midpoint inspection Nov. 4-6 at Barnes Air National Guard...

Kentucky Air Guard enters new era with C-130J Super Hercules
November 8, 2021 — LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Two new C-130J Super Hercules aircraft buzzed over the Kentucky Air National Guard Base Saturday before taxiing to stop on the flight line under the spray of water cannons while a...

27th Infantry Brigade tries out Army’s new rifle
November 8, 2021 — FORT DRUM, New York – Across the New York Army National Guard’s 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Soldiers are closing the gap between the reach of the basic Soldier and the highly trained sniper...

Vietnam Air Force vet tours Mississippi airbase
November 8, 2021 — KEY FIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Miss. - With Veterans Day approaching, the 186th Air Refueling Wing was honored to host and provide a tour to a Vietnam veteran Nov. 6.James William Roberts, 82,...

29th ID cadet continues family's long legacy of service
November 8, 2021 — NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – Upon swearing into the Virginia Army National Guard Aug. 20, 2021, Cadet Ethan Pulket began adding to his family's legacy of more than 200 years of combined military service. For...

29th Infantry Division moves 5,000 Afghans through Kuwait
November 5, 2021 — CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait – On a particularly hazy mid-September day in Kuwait, Maj. Gen. John Rhodes, commanding general of Task Force Spartan and the National Guard’s Virginia-based 29th Infantry...

C-130J aircraft prepped for debut at Kentucky Air Guard
November 5, 2021 — PORT HUENEME, Calif. – Maintainers are putting the finishing touches on two new C-130J Super Hercules aircraft that will join the Kentucky Air National Guard fleet in Louisville this weekend.Artwork...

10th CST attends exercise based on real radioactive incident
November 5, 2021 — SEATTLE – A real-world emergency was the basis of a recent exercise that tested the Washington National Guard’s 10th Civil Support Team and its ability to detect and respond to a foreign...

Kentucky Guard helps hospitals stretched thin by pandemic
November 4, 2021 — BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Since Aug. 31, Kentucky National Guard Soldiers and Airmen have augmented hospital staff across the commonwealth, performing non-clinical tasks during a COVID-19 pandemic...

Arctic Guardian HH-60 pilot draws on service as Recon Marine
November 4, 2021 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska - As the sun was setting across the Anbar Desert in December 2006, a Humvee gun truck driver spotted a slight glint strung across the road from a vehicle on the...

Pa. Guard facilitates emergency communication best practices
November 4, 2021 — FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. - More than 60 emergency management communicators gathered in-person and virtually to discuss disaster communications and best practices Nov. 3-4.The FEMA Region 3-facilitated...

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