The Minnesota National Guard hosted reservists from the Canadian Lake Superior Scottish Regiment (LSSR) on Camp Ripley Mar. 11-20, 2022. The partnership between the Canadian 38 Brigade Group and the Minnesota National Guard fosters an opportunity to expand training goals with assets used by other militaries while sharing techniques to increase interoperability should … [Read more...]

MARCH 22, 2022 – A new policy intended to help National Guard members who were activated to support COVID-19 operations is a “win for the health of the force.” That is according to Army Maj. Gen. Jill Faris, director of the National Guard Bureau’s Office of the Joint Surgeon. “We’ve had so many people who have been on sustained COVID operation orders (502(f) orders), that … [Read more...]

MARCH 21, 2022 – Vermont Army National Guard Soldiers trekked into the Canadian wilderness for “Guerrier Nordique,” a combined, two-week extreme cold-weather exercise. Maj. Matthew Heffner and his small team of Green Mountain Boys trained 80 miles north of Havre-Saint Pierre, a small village in Quebec Province. That’s about 600 miles northeast of Burlington, Vermont, and … [Read more...]

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. David Baldwin, adjutant general of the California National Guard, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, president of Ukraine, and California Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, visit to the California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing at Moffett Air National Guard Base, California, Sept. 2, 2021. The California National Guard and Ukraine State Partnership Program was established … [Read more...]

MARCH 18, 2022 – The Connecticut National Guard handed over the keys to the state commodities warehouse in New Britain to the Connecticut Department of Health March 15, effectively ending its COVID-19 response mission. On March 10, 2020, Gov. Ned Lamont declared a state of emergency due to the COVID-19 pandemic, activating the Connecticut National Guard to assist with … [Read more...]