Author: National Guard – Top News

California National Guard members were ready to respond today after winter storms
crossing the state brought a multitude of weather warnings and advisories predicting
high surf, floods, landslides and severe winds…

The California National Guard’s 40th Infantry Division’s Agri-business Development
Team conducted a veterinary civic action program in the provincial capital to help
area residents with their livestock, Jan. 15…

Increased funding for National Guard facilities across the nation was included in
the Consolidated Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2010, enacted in December, Guard
officials said today…

Members of a Mississippi Army National Guard unit marked their sixth month of entry
control point operations and no security breaches for Contingency Operating Location
Q-West, Jan. 10…

It was already night when the Black Hawk crew finished their day, sending loose
desert sand off into the air as they gently landed on the gravel…

A Guardmember credits childhood lessons and training she received in the Army
National Guard for her quick response to a house fire here Jan. 11…

The adjutant general of the Kentucky National Guard took time recently to personally
thank his state’s Citizen-Soldiers, who are on an important NATO peace-keeping
mission here in Kosovo…

Mike Kohn of the Virginia National Guard needed to finish at least 14th in today’s
World Cup competition in St. Moritz, Switzerland to qualify in four-man bobsled at
the 2010 Winter Olympic Games…

Guard and Reserve members are encouraged to acknowledge their civilian employers’
exceptional support by nominating them for a top Defense Department
award…

Corporate America has joined forces with this country’s veterans to provide the
skills and mentorship that they need to rejoin the civilian
workforce…

The Florida Air National Guard’s 101st Air and Space Operations Group (AOG) is
paving the way for air operations in the emergency response to
Haiti…

As time for their pre-mission brief drew near, route-clearance crews here began to
gather around Army 1st Lt. Chris Johnson, their platoon leader…

Top Indiana military officials at Joint Forces Headquarters have selected 18 of some
of Indiana’s most experienced and proficient Army National Guard Soldiers to deploy
to Afghanistan and embed themselves with high-level commanders of the Afghan
Army…

Airmen with the West Virginia Air National Guard’s 167th Airlift Wing are working
around-the-clock here in an
effort to get critical life-saving supplies into the hands of Haiti’s earthquake
victims….

As the world turned its attention to the devastation caused by an earthquake in
Haiti this week, one Florida National Guard Soldier was waiting for word from family
members living in the Caribbean nation…

About 95 Texas National Guardsmen are standing by in preparation for possible flash
flooding from heavy rains that will move through the San Antonio and Austin areas
this weekend…

An Ohio Air National Guard C-130 pilot, who flew into the Haiti airport the day
after a 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck, said he was surprised by the condition of
the runway…

The quick response of two Continental U.S. NORAD Region fighter jets that
intercepted a small airplane in Florida in late December resulted in a new and
impressive record for CONR―its 55,000th successfully completed Operation Noble
Eagle sortie…

The National Guard has taken many steps to reduce the number of suicides within its
ranks and has instituted a number of programs aimed at both building resiliency
among its members and ensuring that those who need help receive the care they
need…

Three days before a 7.0 magnitude earthquake hit Haiti, about 45 members of the Ohio
Air National Guard were deployed to Puerto Rico in support of a U.S. Southern
Command mission…