Author: National Guard – Top News

Command Sgt. Maj. Richard J. Burch of the Nebraska National Guard has been named the
new command sergeant major of the Army National Guard, Guard officials announced
this week…

Sgt. Jeremy Teela of the Vermont National Guard has been named to the five-man
Olympic biathlon team, the U.S. Biathlon Association’s International Competition
Committee announced Jan. 10…

What happens when you take an M-60 tank, pack the gears with ice and add 13 years of
rust to the treads?…

The chief of the National Guard Bureau said today that the Army and Air National
Guard are prepared to help in the humanitarian relief effort in
Haiti…

National Guardsmen in five states are providing drinking water to communities with
broken or damaged water systems caused by recent freezing
temperatures…

Retired Maj. Gen. John J. Pesch, a former director of the Air National Guard, passed
away at his home in Sterling, Va., Jan. 10. He was 88…

Soldiers and Airmen of the North Dakota National Guard recently received recognition
for spring 2009 flood operations here during Cass County Commission
meeting…

The Department of the Army G-4 and the chairman of the board, International Food
Service Executives Association, have announced the winners of the 2010 Philip A.
Connelly Awards Program for Excellence in Army Food Service…

Clearing an airfield of snow is no easy task…

Increased funding in the fiscal 2010 budget will allow the National Guard to
modernize and equip its forces for state and federal missions, Guard officials
announced today…

Several members of the New York Army National Guard teamed up with 10 of the fastest
race car drivers in the world for the fifth annual Lucas Oil Geoff Bodine Bobsled
Challenge this past weekend…

The Army announced last week that nine additional medevac companies would be added
to the reserve component…

Mississippi Air National Guardsmen showcased a new intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance (ISR) platform training facility here Jan. 9 for the director of the
Air National Guard…

The Air National Guard’s top leader visited with Airmen at the 172nd Airlift Wing
here and the 186th Air Refueling Wing in Meridian this weekend in formal briefings
and base tours to see firsthand the missions they are performing…

When she was just 5 years old, Karrie Warren was already learning to hit softballs
in her family’s Fort Lauderdale, Fla., backyard…

Members of the Arkansas National Guard’s Agriculture Development Team (ADT) destined
for deployment to Afghanistan later this spring have begun their pre-mobilization
training here this week…

Servicemembers and overseas voters shouldn’t assume they automatically will receive
ballots for the 2010 elections just because they have in the past…

Army and Air National Guard members are encouraged to provide their civilian
employment information to the Department of Defense through a mandatory program that
has been around since the early 1990s…

About 20 New York Army National Guard Soldiers will spend this weekend going fast on
America’s only dedicated bobsled track…

The 179th Airlift Wing of the Ohio Air National Guard recently deployed to Iraq to
work with members of the 25th Combat Aviation Brigade of the Ohio Army National
Guard in a ground-breaking concept of operations test between the two
services…