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Vaughn retires after 40 years in Army Guard
The past four years have brought many challenges and changes to the Army National Guard...May 7, 2009
Army officials outline Guard budget items
National Guard equipment allocations are more visible in the proposed 2010 defense budget and key military personnel spending that impacts the Guard has been moved from relying on supplemental funding to the base budget, senior Army officials announced today...
May 8, 2009
May 8, 2009
MAFFS training prepares units for upcoming fire season
Returning fresh from last year’s wildfire season, more than 300 National Guard and Reserve Airmen are hoping that their Modular Airborne Firefighting System (MAFFS) training here this week will give them the edge over destructive blazes that can spark at any time...May 7, 2009
Kansas ADT arrives in Afghanistan
An agribusiness development team from the Kansas National Guard unfurled its colors in Afghanistan's Laghman province May 3 and began its work of jump-starting the agricultural economy...May 8, 2009
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Texas and Chile form partnership
The Texas National Guard signed a memorandum of agreement with the country of Chile on April 29, which linked the two in the Guard’s State Partnership Program...May 6, 2009
New Mexico Guard trains with Costa Rican partner
About 70 members of the New Mexico Army National Guard will participate in the largest military exercise in Costa Rica since partnering in with the country in 2006 to improve security, stability and foreign relations...April 24, 2009
Illinois Air Guard spouse named top in Air Force
Five military spouses received recognition for their valued service to the nation at an award ceremony here yesterday...May 8, 2009
North Dakota Soldiers support others in mom’s day event
Four female Soldiers from the North Dakota Army National Guard travelled to New York City this week to eat cake and support service members who are currently deployed around the world...May 8, 2009
New York Air Guardsmen stay on alert to save lives
While all Airmen assigned to rescue squadrons throughout the Air Force know and follow the motto "So that others may live," there is one rescue squadron, deployed to Afghanistan, that takes this personal...May 8, 2009
Guard mom sacrifices tradition for country
While deployed mothers will miss out on their traditional Mother's Day celebrations May 10, some are making the best of the situation...May 8, 2009
Ohio Army Guard wins 2009 Army COE award
Ohio Governor Ted Strickland today applauded the Ohio Army National Guard for being selected as the 2009 Army Communities of Excellence Special Category Winner for the Fiscal Year 2009 by the Department of the U.S. Army...
May 8, 2009
May 8, 2009
Upcoming GI film festival highlights famous Guard unit
Forget Sundance and Cannes. Military members now have their own indie-style film festival...
May 8, 2009
May 8, 2009
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- Huey's last hurrah
The distinctive low-pitched whump, whump, whump of the rotor blades of UH-1 Iroquois, better known as the Huey, has been heard in Army aviation circles since the late 1950s when the aircraft was first put into service. By September of this year, the National Guard will turn in their remaining Hueys, and by October 2012 all Hueys throughout the Army will be retired.
- Spring Floods 2009
Governors in six upper Midwestern states have sent National Guard members and some much-needed equipment to help fight flooding in North Dakota.
- New On Guard online
The National Guard Bureau's monthly newspaper has become a quarterly magazine that is e-mailed to every Guardmember. Check it out here.
- On the front lines
See the National Guard through the lens of some of its best photojournalists.
- Afghanistan Today
Photo Essay by Tennessee Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Russell Lee Klika and DoD's Fred W. Baker III.
- National Guard News Show
A quarterly news show dedicated to providing news and information on your National Guard.
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Gave All...
A web site dedicated to the memories of National Guard Soldiers and Airmen lost while defending our Nation's principles
- Archives
Find archived exercise materials, featured topics, news stories from 2006, 2007 and 2008, and editions of The On Guard from 2004 in the Web Archives.
- National Defense
Learn more about what your National Guard is doing to defend our nation.
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Learn more about what your National Guard is doing to protect the homeland.
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