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A Soldier being treated at Walter Reed for wounds sustained in Afghanistan received the Bronze Star Medal with “V” Device during a ceremony here in Doss Memorial Hall Feb. 26…

The Washington National Guard welcomed Gen. Craig R. McKinley, the chief of the National Guard Bureau here on Wednesday…

First they feared for their own lives, then Utah Air National Guardmembers helped others as a training mission in Chile took a no-notice turn to humanitarian relief…

With the alarm sounding and 60 seconds on the clock, Senior Airman Joshua Wolff must be fully geared and heading to the truck to leave the station…

Judges waded through a record-setting number of entries in the National Guard’s annual media contest this year, which included more than 700 print stories and about 140 broadcast packages…

Naval Facilities Engineering Command Marianas awarded a $18.4 million firm-fixed-price contract March 10 to dck pacific guam LLC of Barrigada Guam for the design and construction of the new Guam Army National Guard (GUARNG) Readiness Center…

The chief of the National Guard Bureau congratulated 54 newly naturalized U.S. citizens, including a member of the Georgia Army National Guard, during a ceremony hosted by the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services in Atlanta on Tuesday…

The National Guard’s State Partnership Program is a superb tool for Africa Command, the combatant commander told a congressional committee on Tuesday…

More than 200 Soldiers and Airmen of Kennesaw’s Joint Task Force 781 (JTF), their Florida Guard counterparts and the naval hospital and Navy Region Southeast Regional Operations Center here, held joint homeland defense training mission today…

Two Alaska Army National Guardsmen finished as one of the top three teams in the 2010 Alaska National Guard Iron Dog, the world’s longest and toughest snowmobile race Feb. 19-27…

Considering today’s explosive popularity of social media and online research it may come as no surprise that military recruiting Web sites are rushing to keep up with new technologies and trends…

Some Soldiers will do almost anything to stay in shape…

Four members of the Utah Air National Guard’s 151st Air Refueling Wing based here had a rude awakening Feb. 27 when the 15th floor of their hotel in Santiago, Chile, started to shake…

For years, the big names in National Guard biathlon were Vermont and Minnesota. After sweeping all four races at this year’s championships, North Dakota is emerging as an unlikely powerhouse…

Keeping service members safe within Joint Task Force Guantanamo is everyone’s responsibility…

Guardsmen from 11 different states, together with over 200 Army active duty, reserve and cadet components, competed in the annual All-Army Small Arms Championships here from Feb. 21-27…

Three units from the Washington National Guard were welcomed home by family and friends this week…

The last two F-16s operated by the New York Air National Guard’s 174th Fighter Wing were sent off by about 2,000 Airmen, family members and friends here March 6, marking the wing’s final transition to MQ-9 Reaper operations…

One of Wisconsin National Guard’s newest facilities serves more than just military assets by providing continuous emergency support to more than 1.5 million passengers who fly in and out of the Dane County Regional Airport every year…

One day he might be taking a KC-10 Extender flight crew to their operations area, and the next he may be operating a forklift moving cargo…