Author: National Guard – Top News

Several military organizations are working together to provide soldiers with
healthy, good-tasting, sustainable and nutritionally sound combat
rations…

Staff Sgt. Hannes Stieg, of the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 732nd Combat
Sustainment Support Battalion headquarters element, had something special to be
thankful for this season – his new status as a U.S. citizen…

Louisiana National Guardsmen participated in a video game competition against the
undefeated New Orleans Saints at their training facility in Metairie, La., Dec.
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A Soldier who was badly wounded in a 2005 roadside-bomb explosion is serving in Iraq
again, and he’s finding deployed life easier this time around…

Indiana National Guard soldiers from the 38th Infantry Division’s Task Force Cyclone
ensure Forward Operating Base Salerno is maintained properly…

The National Guard continues to make a significant contribution to one of the
Afghanistan initiatives that President Obama discussed in his Tuesday speech to the
nation…

The 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team of the Vermont National Guard was notified in
June that they would deploy to Afghanistan early next year…

U.S. soldiers and their Afghan partners bedded down for the night at the Afghan
National Police Achin District Center here Nov. 18 in preparation for a meeting with
Shinwari tribal elders and Afghan security personnel…

An Alaska Army National Guard member currently deployed to Afghanistan has been
named a national and state top 40 under 40 honoree…

The National Guard Marksmanship Training Center’s (NGMTC) Sniper School hosted 30
sniper and sharpshooting competitors at the second annual Inter-Service Sniper
Sustainment Exercise (ISSTE) here at the Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center Nov.
7-13…

Nestled in a remote location, by design, is a special aviation operation in
northwest Iraq…

A mobile training team from the 18th Aggressor Squadron spent a week here providing
unit-level training for Hawaii Air National Guard pilots…

The Army National Guard’s “Drive the Guard” program is putting Soldiers behind
the wheel while they are in uniform and helping them to qualify for fulltime
civilian employment as a truck driver…

With President Barack Obama’s expected announcement today to send more U.S. forces
to Afghanistan, a defense official said a portion of the additional troops are
likely to reinforce the country’s contentious eastern and southern
areas…

Four soldiers serving here with the New Hampshire National Guard earned a special
distinction last week when they became their company’s first all-female medical
evacuation crew…

Soldiers from the 480th Military Police Company of the Puerto Rico National Guard
handed over responsibility for their external security mission at Joint Task Force
Guantanamo to the 115th Military Police Company of the Rhode Island National Guard
during a ceremony Nov. 12…

Some Soldiers at a base in Basra, Iraq, awoke Nov. 28 to find that concrete barriers
had tipped over during the night and had come to rest upon containerized housing
units…

Washington National Guard members recently volunteered to assist over 200 veterans
during a Stand Down event held here at the Walla Walla Armory…

According to air mobility experts on the ground in Iraq, initial results of the
ongoing U.S. Army direct support mission Concept of Operations test there indicate
what Air Force and Air Mobility Command officials have said all along: the Air Force
supports this mission 100 percent…

While a land dispute might be settled in court over months or years of litigation in
America, it might be talked about over tea in Afghanistan…