Author: National Guard – Top News

Some 200 wounded active duty members and military veterans will compete in the
inaugural Warrior Games May 10-14 in Colorado Springs, Colo., Defense Department
officials announced today…

This week, eight Army National Guard brigade combat teams were either returning to
their home states from overseas or preparing to deploy to Iraq or
Afghanistan…

The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff thanked the soldiers of the Vermont
National Guard today as they said goodbye to family and friends and prepared to
trade the snows of New England for the snows of Afghanistan…

The 180th Fighter Wing announced further expansion of its highly successful
alternative energy solar field here at the Air National Guard Base Jan.
5…

The bus was waiting on the curb when the limousine pulled up. The doors opened and
the family got out of the back of the car…

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today announced a new state initiative to
better help returning combat veterans to land jobs and get whatever help they need
in securing housing, health care and other veterans’ services…

Many communities across America raise Soldiers, and it is a calling to give back to
those communities through military service…

The Defense Department soon will join a Veterans Affairs Department and Kaiser
Permanente partnership designed to improve the way military veterans and the nation
receive health care, the VA’s top health affairs policy advisor said
today…

Two Oregon Air National Guard F-15 fighters, under the direction of North American
Aerospace Defense Command, intercepted Hawaiian Air Flight 39 in the vicinity of
Portland, Ore., today…

Army and Air National Guardsmen saved 48 lives here in Alaska in 2009 and assisted
12 others to safety during another busy year for the Alaska National
Guard….

Airmen with the Base Emergency Engineer Force assigned to the 474th Expeditionary
Civil Engineering Squadron recently finished installing new soccer goals inside the
recreation yard of Camp 6…

Air Force officials here published the notice of intent in the Federal Register Dec.
30 to prepare an environmental impact statement to assess the potential
environmental impacts of a proposal to establish operational F-35 Lightning II
aircraft at one or more existing Air Force and Air National Guard installations
within the continental United States…

Four fallen Illinois Soldiers from the 1544th Transportation Company based in Paris,
Ill., were honored for their support of postal operations in Iraq during the
dedication of a new post office Dec. 17 here at Joint Base Balad (JBB),
Iraq…

The fiscal 2010 defense budget extends payments to servicemembers involuntarily
extended on active duty under the so-called “Stop Loss” program, but those who
received a bonus for voluntarily re-enlisting or extending their service no longer
qualify for retroactive Stop Loss pay…

Toward the end of every soldier’s deployment comes the time to decide what’s
next…

Members of a Kentucky National Guard aviation unit offered up its time and
helicopters recently to help train peacekeeping partners from another nation here in
Kosovo…

A father and son from the New York Air National Guard were among 130 Airmen from 14
units, who graduated from the Satellite Noncommissioned Officer (NCO) Academy Class
10-2, in a ceremony held at The I.G. Brown Air National Guard Training and Education
Center here Dec. 15…

Laws have changed and servicemembers who want to vote need to be aware of these
changes, the director of the Federal Voting Assistance Program
said…

The Kosovo Force will transition from about 14,000 to 10,000 NATO forces by Jan. 31,
due to improvements in security, said the commander of Multi-National Task
Force-East…

Agribusiness Development Teams (ADTs) from the Indiana, Tennessee and Texas National
Guard returned to the United States during the holidays after year-long deployments
to Afghanistan…