Guard News - The National Guard - Year 2022

Alaska National Guard hosts Arctic Interest Council
April 1, 2022 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – When delegates of the National Guard Arctic Interest Council representing six states visited the arctic city of Kotzebue March 29, they witnessed a...

Air Force leaders talk total force integration
March 31, 2022 — JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. – Top leaders from Air Force active duty, the Air Force Reserves and Air National Guard addressed the importance and challenges of total force integration during a fireside...

Vermont Guard, Senegalese Air Force conduct aviation exchange
March 31, 2022 — COLCHESTER, Vt. – Vermont Army National Guard rotary-wing representatives with 86th Troop Command took part in an aviation exchange with Senegalese Air Force helicopter pilots as part of the State...

New ANG commanders learn to ‘progress unhindered by custom’
March 31, 2022 — JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. – More than four dozen new and future Air National Guard commanders recently gathered in the national capital region for a whirlwind week of networking, leadership training and...

Nebraska Guard recognized for protecting whooping crane
March 31, 2022 — LINCOLN, Neb. – For eons, majestic whooping crane, perhaps the best-known endangered species, have migrated in great flocks from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico and back again. A critical stopover in...

Pennsylvania National Guard holds Wi-Fighter Cyber Challenge
March 30, 2022 — STATE COLLEGE, Pa. - More than 45 Penn State University students competed in a Pennsylvania National Guard Wi-Fighter Cyber Challenge event March 16.The concept of the cyber challenges, which are...

ANG command chief speaks on total force integration
March 30, 2022 — JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. - Command Chief Master Sgt. Maurice L. Williams, the 13th command chief master sergeant of the Air National Guard, participated in the Senior Enlisted Leadership Panel segment...

Oregon Guard supports Bangladesh Tiger Lightning 22 exercise
March 30, 2022 — GAZIPUR, Bangladesh – In the hot March sun at the Bangladesh Institute of Peace Support Operations Training, U.S. military service members partnered with their Bangladeshi counterparts to participate...

Common goals strengthen Michigan National Guard-Latvia-Liberia relationship
March 29, 2022 — MONROVIA, Liberia – Situated 700 miles south of Africa’s Sahara Desert and 435 miles north of the equator, Monrovia rarely dips below 70 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s a sub-Saharan beachside paradise...

Kentucky Air Guard trains in Sweden for arctic warfare
March 29, 2022 — GRUBBNäSUDDEN, Sweden – Fifteen Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard completed an arctic warfare training course during two weeks of field exercises at the Swedish Subarctic Warfare Center.The...

Michigan Guard, partners practice cyberattack response
March 29, 2022 — GRAYLING, Mich. – The Michigan National Guard worked with law enforcement and industry partners to respond jointly to cyberattacks in a Cyber Strike exercise at the National All Domain Warfighting...

South Carolina Guard receives new AH-64E Apache helicopters
March 28, 2022 — COLUMBIA, S.C. – Five AH-64E model Apache attack helicopters were delivered to the South Carolina National Guard at McEntire Joint National Guard Base March 24. The South Carolina National Guard is...

Alaska Army Guard conducts multiagency CBRNE exercise
March 28, 2022 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Alaska Army National Guard’s 103rd Civil Support Team, National Guard CST units from other states, and local and federal agencies participated in Van Winkle...

Deployed Vermont National Guard MPs provide base security
March 28, 2022 — COLCHESTER, Vt. – Thirty-three Vermont National Guard Military Police Soldiers of the 172nd Law Enforcement Detachment conducted a law enforcement and inner-base security training mission at the...

165th Airlift Wing Guardsmen wrap up COVID-19 response
March 28, 2022 — SAVANNAH, Ga.– More than 30 Airmen from the 165th Airlift Wing, Georgia Air National Guard, demobilized March 18 after volunteering to serve on the Georgia Coronavirus Response Task Force.These...

Alaska Guard conducts exercise on Arctic sea ice
March 28, 2022 — JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – During a routine flight deep in the Alaska Interior, a small jet crashes with a dozen passengers.All survive without serious injury, but now they’re facing...

Minnesota, Norway resume troop exchange after 2-year break
March 28, 2022 — CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. – Nearly 100 service members from the Norwegian military’s Home Guard, known as the Heimevernet, arrived at the Minnesota National Guard’s 133rd Airlift Wing in St. Paul March...

Virginia National Guard, Tajikistan conduct SPP exchange
March 25, 2022 — DUSHANBE, Tajikistan – Virginia National Guard Soldiers shared infantry tactics and how to counter unmanned air systems with the Republic of Tajikistan March 7-11 in an information exchange as part of...

Florida Guard exchanges expertise with Guyana Defense Force
March 25, 2022 — GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Guyana Defense Force members and U.S. Army Soldiers with the B/2-54th Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) and 107th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment exchanged skills and...

California Guard officer honored for space work at Beale AFB
March 25, 2022 — BEALE AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. Roy Davis of the California Air National Guard’s 234th Intelligence Squadron is the 2021 Space Operations Command Company Grade Officer of the...

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