MARCH 29, 2022 – The National Guard is playing a key role in integrating a Department of Defense initiative to reinforce the importance of equal gender participation in all aspects of global peace and security. The 2020 Women, Peace and Security Strategic Framework and Implementation Plan stresses the inclusion of women in preventing and resolving conflicts, peace … [Read more...]

MARCH 29, 2022 – Five AH-64E model Apache attack helicopters were delivered to the South Carolina National Guard at McEntire Joint National Guard Base March 24. The South Carolina National Guard is updating a 34-year-old fleet of 24 aircraft with the new E-model, which will be assigned to and flown by the 1-151st Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, 59th Aviation Troop … [Read more...]

MARCH 28, 2022 – During a routine flight deep in the Alaska Interior, a small jet crashes with a dozen passengers. All survive without serious injury, but now they’re facing subzero temperatures with the sprawling and towering Alaska Range separating them from rapid rescue by a 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60G Pave Hawk and other military helicopters. Help is on the way in … [Read more...]

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...]