Author: National Guard – Top News

Mobilizations for most Army National Guard units run for a total of 12 months,
which includes training and deployment time…

CSM William Paul made history Oct. 29 when he became the first National Guard
Soldier to serve as the 4th Ranger Training Battalion senior NCO…

It takes patience to set a car on fire…

Santa and Mrs. Claus arrive in Koyuk via C-130 Dashing through the sky in an
Alaska Air National Guard C-130 Hercules aircraft from the 176th Wing, Santa, Mrs.
Claus and a team of elves landed in Koyuk on Nov. 3…

While more than 3,200 soldiers of the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 32nd
Infantry Brigade Combat Team have their boots on the ground in Iraq, some of their
fellow Guardsmen from the state’s Air National Guard have their jets in the sky
overhead…

This Wednesday, the Nation will celebrate Veterans Day. At the 11th hour, on the
11th day of the 11th month, we’ll join our fellow Americans—neighbors, family,
friends and employers—in recognition of the men and women who have worn the
military uniform throughout history, whether in peace or in time of
war…

Senior Air Force officials have applied a new basing process to more than 200
sites for training and operational basing of the F-35 Lightning II joint strike
fighter aircraft…

Fort Hood was uppermost in the minds of National Guardsmen today, especially with
an Alabama Citizen-Soldier reportedly among the wounded after a deadly shooting
rampage there…

On the one day a week he’s not dealing with information technology equipment,
Staff Sgt. Christopher Hipsher spends time volunteering at the Air Force Theater
Hospital…

Servicemembers from Chile, the United States, Argentina, Brazil and France
participated in an exercise to see beyond their own operating methodology and
adapt to an environment under a common cause…

The first visit by a sitting president in 59 years began at the Wisconsin Air
National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing based here at Truax Field Nov.
4…

A temporary increase in the number of Soldiers moving through Camp Liberty is
expected as the U.S. military transitions to a responsible drawdown in
Iraq…

Guardmembers assigned to the National Capital Region got a chance this week to
preview the Army National Guard’s new recruiting advertising campaign, which is
scheduled to launch Nov. 13…

The Georgia Army National Guard’s long range surveillance unit will again honor
their World War II predecessors by completing a 118-mile march from Toccoa, Ga.,
to Atlanta this week…

When a deployed unit approaches its end-of-tour date, the focus begins to shift
from the deployment at hand to redeployment stateside…

F-15C training for active duty and Air National Guard pilots will be merged during
this fiscal year and hosted by the Oregon Air National Guard based here, Guard
officials recently announced…

The Air Force chief of staff and two Airmen were among the honorees at the Jewish
Institute for National Security Affairs awards dinner here Nov.
2…

Air Force Gen. Craig McKinley, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, visited the
Erie and Niagara counties on Nov. 4 as the Vigilant Guard exercise entered its
fourth day…

A new perspective has enabled the leadership at the Department of Veterans Affairs
to improve the level and accessibility of care it provides to servicemembers, the
department’s assistant secretary for public and intergovernmental affairs said
here this week…

The Department of Defense has acquired enough doses of the H1N1 flu vaccine to
immunize all 460,000 members of the National Guard, officials announced
today…