Author: National Guard – Top News

The 102nd Intelligence Wing officially marked the initial operating capability of
the intelligence group’s $1.8 million facility with a ribbon-cutting ceremony held
here Nov. 6…

National Guard soldiers bring a variety of life and work experiences with them on
deployment, and even the smallest unit can include a surprising array of skills and
experience…

Members of the Mississippi Army National Guard marked their fourth month of
maintaining and operating the base defense 17-meter Aerostat balloon here Nov.
7…

Members of the 113th Security Forces Squadron of the District of Columbia Air
National Guard recently attended the Air Force Phoenix Warrior Training Course here
at the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center…

The Arkansas National Guard’s Agricultural Development Team, which is scheduled for
deployment to Afghanistan in early 2010, begins training this week in a cooperative
partnership with the University of Arkansas Division of Agriculture through the U of
A Cooperative Extension Service…

Although the upcoming deployment of the 53rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team will be an
historic event, the preparation for the unit’s mobilization has already gone down
as the largest training event ever for the Florida Army National
Guard…

The commander of the Kansas National Guard recently visited his state’s
Citizen-Soldiers, who are here conducting an important NATO peace-keeping
mission…

Shauna Rohbock of the Utah National Guard finished just eight-hundredths of a second
out of the medals in the women’s bobsled competition at the Olympic Sports Complex
in Lake Placid, N.Y., today…

It was déjà vu at the Lake Placid, N.Y. bobsled track Nov. 22 as the U.S. team
again claimed the top podium positions…

Because of the current slow economy, some Guardsmen are returning from deployments
to find their civilian job has been downsized or completely done away
with…

The first female and first Air Force senior enlisted advisor to the chief of the
National Guard Bureau said her new job is a calling…

Retired Army Col. Lewis L. Millett, who received the Medal of Honor during the
Korean War for leading what reportedly was the last major American bayonet charge,
died Nov 14…

Intelligence reporting indicated that foreign fighters could be located in a town in
Iraq’s northwestern Ninewah province near the Syrian border…

The first Air National Guard class of officer cadets to graduate from the Academy of
Military Sciences at Maxwell Air Force Base received their golden bars Nov.
13…

On one high-definition screen a guy in a tiger suit was boxing a giant panda. On
another monitor a short plumber was searching for mushrooms. And a few feet away a
digital version of the Beatles crooned ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’…

Maintaining peak combat readiness begins and ends with healthy, motivated and
well-trained Airmen…

‘It is fitting that we celebrate the Thanksgiving holiday during Military Family
Appreciation Week’…

Complacency is the one word that concerns the commander of U.S. Northern Command
…

Air Force Gen. Craig R. McKinley, chief of the National Guard Bureau, closed his
first Joint Senior Leadership Conference here today by thanking the 2,400
participants from around the country…

The National Guard is a vital partner in the federal response to natural or manmade
disasters, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said here
today…