Author: National Guard – Top News

The Louisiana National Guard participated in the annual Christmas tree drop at the Bayou Sauvage Wildlife Refuge in eastern New Orleans March 30…

The 204th Security Forces Squadron, a geographically separated unit of the 149th Fighter Wing, has won 2009 Air Force Outstanding Security Forces Unit Award…

The first group of Oregon’s Citizen-soldiers returned to Fort Lewis, Wash., April 3, signaling the beginning of the end of the 41 Infantry Brigade Combat Team’s nearly year-long deployment to Iraq…

Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric K. Shinseki yesterday announced promising news for veterans of the Persian Gulf War experiencing the broad range of symptoms referred to as Gulf War Illnesses…

Over 200 members of the Arkansas National Guard’s 188th Fighter Wing deployed here in early March to begin their portion of an Air Expeditionary Force rotation as a component of the 451st Fighter Group…

Nearly 30 employers from around Wisconsin gathered at Fort McCoy Saturday (March 27) to observe mobilization training for Soldiers from the 724th Engineer Battalion…

Washington Air National Guardsmen gathered here from all over the state on March 26-28 to participate in their second to last training exercise before Guardian Challenge…

Although the Department of Defense’s Sexual Assault Prevention and Response program is a fairly new program – established in 2005 to improve prevention of sexual assault and enhance support to victims – the Florida National Guard has taken steps to highlight this program and the services it offers to Soldiers and Airmen…

Amid the steady hum of construction noise, the National Guard Bureau’s 250,000-square-foot building project at Arlington Hall continued here today, with nearly 18-month’s labor showing obvious progress…

The best fighters in the Army National Guard Combatives Championship were crowned at Fort Benning, Ga., March 26-28, and the Illinois Guard’s team took first place…

The North Dakota National Guard will end 2010 flood operations today as the remaining members of a Cass County quick response force team complete their out-processing…

After four years of preparing thousands of Army National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers for deployment at the Division West mobilization training center here, Army Capt. Brent Middleton soon will be preparing for his own deployment at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash., center…

When fallen heroes return home to Illinois, the Soldiers of Illinois Army National Guard’s Company B, 935th Aviation and Company B, 1st Battalion, 106th Aviation are ready to welcome them home at the unit’s aviation hanger at Midway International Airport in Chicago…

Members of Task Force Cyclone of the Indiana National Guard’s 38th Infantry Division relinquished command of their area of operations to Task Force Wolverine of the Vermont National Guard’s 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team during a transfer of authority ceremony held here in the Parwan province March 31…

More than 1,500 National Guard members in three Northeast states are waging a war against rising flood waters after several days of rain combined with melting snow…

Support for Wisconsin Soldiers and Airmen extends beyond the battlefield, Brig. Gen. Don Dunbar, adjutant general for the Wisconsin National Guard, said during a recent prayer breakfast…

It started as a campaign promise, and in his State of the Union Address, it became policy…

Master Sgt. Alex Brown will tell you that it’s pretty tough to complete deployed missions if you don’t have the supplies to do it…

Air Force officials are opening the Air Force network to allow access to Internet-based social-networking sites. Initial access will be available at five Pacific Air Forces bases March 30, and will begin opening sites Air Force-wide later in April…

With 2010 suicide numbers slightly above last year’s and coming off the worst January on record, the Army National Guard is emphasizing resilience, transition programs and the importance of asking for help…