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United Service Organization (USO) volunteers were joined by Dr. Jill Biden, wife of Vice President Joe Biden, at a stuffing party for the families of 3,000 Florida National Guard Soldiers, who will deploy in the coming weeks…

Equipment readiness in the National Guard and Reserve is still a work in progress, the secretary of the Army told Senate lawmakers on Tuesday…

Equipment readiness in the National Guard and Reserve is still a work in progress, the secretary of the Army told Senate lawmakers on Tuesday…

When your primary mission as an engineer platoon is clearing routes of improvised explosive devices – the number one threat to U.S. and NATO forces here – you might not think most other missions are as challenging or rewarding…

Stepping off a chartered airliner early this morning, more than 100 members of Springfield’s Battery A, 1st Battalion, 118th Field Artillery, began the last leg of their yearlong deployment to Afghanistan…

Air Force engineers from the Kansas Air National Guard conducting a routine survey of the field adjacent to the airport in Port-au-Prince discovered a group of Airmen had been there before…

The Air National Guard’s top recruiters were celebrated for their accomplishments here last night after what many described as a tough, but landmark recruiting year in 2009…

A National Guardsman was one of the first two African-Americans to ever qualify for a U.S. Winter Olympic team…

Alaska Air National Guardsmen from the 168th Air Refueling Wing flew to Andersen Air Base in Guam Feb. 14 to train Guardsmen there on KC-135 aircraft maintenance skills…

When asked during the panel interview for Tops in Blue, how she would handle a diva, Airman First Class Lisa Weiss answered: ‘Flatter the diva…’

Biathlete Sgt. Jeremy Teela of the Vermont National Guard battled illness to finish 29th in the Olympic men’s 15-kilometer mass start Feb. 21 at Whistler Olympic Park here…

The number of suspected soldier suicides increased for the first month of this year, and the Army’s head of suicide prevention vowed today to sharpen the focus on combating the problem…

More than a week after the last of two back-to-black blizzards pounded the Eastern Panhandle, the West Virginia National Guard is still assisting hard hit communities…

Air Force Gen. Craig McKinley, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, thanks Vice President Joe Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden…

The North Dakota National Guard recently spent three days responding to a simulated flood…

Sgt. Shauna Rohbock is not ready for what she is
about to experience in the women’s bobsledding event tonight and tomorrow at
the Winter Olympic Games in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada…

Starting this summer, Soldiers sent to fight in Afghanistan will wear an Army Combat Uniform with the “MultiCam” pattern instead of the standard-issue universal camouflage pattern…

Former Utah National Guard bobsled driver Steven Holcomb finished sixth in the two-man Olympic Bobsled competition late today and said he looks forward to the upcoming four-man event and ending the USA’s 62 years with no gold in the sport…

At the request of the Army National Guard, states are determining if thousands of Soldiers are entitled to receive extra money for serving long overseas deployments…

On a long, dusty road littered with potholes and winding ruts, one Afghan National Army unit came into its own by conducting its first ever route-clearing mission…