Massachusetts Guard complex gets new lease on life
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CAMP EDWARDS, Mass. -- 1st Lt. Francis McGinn shipped out for the Pacific from Camp Edwards when World War II was raging. He was killed during the Battle of Leyte Gulf in the Philippines in October 1944. Sixty-four years later, his grandson, who has the same name, is playing a key role in transforming this old Army post into a modern training ground for troops preparing to engage in a different kind of war - the Global War on Terrorism.
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C-5 airlifts C-130 fuselage to Stratton ANGB
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STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y -- On Sept. 10, a 105th Airlift Wing (AW) C-5 Galaxy from Newburgh, N.Y., landed here with precious cargo - a training fuselage of a C-130A that the 143AW in Rhode Island no longer needed.
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California Air National Guard assists Texas for Hurricane Ike
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MOFFETT FEDERAL AIRFIELD, Calif. -- California Air National Guardsmen from the 129th Rescue Wing, deployed from here to Ellington Field in Houston for Hurricane Ike search and rescue support operations relocated Sept. 11 to Kelly Field in San Antonio because of Hurricane Ike's projected path.
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Chertoff: Air Force, Guard vital to hurricane relief efforts
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BATON ROUGE, La. (AFPN) -- As Hurricane Gustav made landfall on the Gulf Coast, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security praised the men and women of the Air Force and the National Guard for their efforts during preparations for the storm.
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National Guard in four states prepare for Hanna
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ARLINGTON, Va. (AFPN) -- Officials in four states along the East Coast are employing their National Guard units as Tropical Storm Hanna nears.
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2 September 1918
1st Lt. Field E. Kindley, a former Kansas Guardsman, scored his fifth aerial kill. He ended World War I with 11 victories.
26 September 1920
Encouraged by Governor Joseph Alfred Arner Burnquist, three members of the Minnesota National Guard - Capt. Ray S. Miller, Lt. Col. William Garis, the Assistant Adjutant General, and Brig. Gen. Walter Rhinow, the Adjutant General - launched a flight to Washington, DC from St. Paul on a rented airplane to successfully lobby the Militia Bureau and the Army Air Service to form a National Guard aviation unit in their state.
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