SEPTEMBER 24, 2025 – Amid a historic surge in military recruiting, the National Guard exceeded its fiscal year 2025 goals, reflecting a broader trend of robust enlistment across the U.S. military. Since November 2024, the Department of War has achieved its strongest recruiting performance in 30 years, with fiscal year-to-date accessions as of the end of August reaching 106% … [Read more...]

SEPTEMBER 23, 2025 — Georgia National Guard Soldiers took over the Washington, D.C. Safe and Beautiful mission Sept. 19 from South Carolina National Guard troops who spent five weeks supporting local and federal agencies in the nation’s capital. The South Carolina National Guard’s 4th Battalion, 118th Infantry Brigade completed its assignment supporting the Joint Task Force … [Read more...]

SEPTEMBER 23, 2025 – On the night of August 25-26, 2025, an MH-139A Grey Wolf, the Air Force’s newest helicopter, added a significant chapter to the 40th Helicopter Squadron’s operational history when they located and rendered aid to a lost hiker. The crew dedicated 8.2 hours over three sorties to locating and stabilizing a stranded hiker. “Today, a father, grandfather, … [Read more...]

An LC-130 Hercules aircraft from the 109th Airlift Wing is being unloaded at Summit Station, Greenland, May 9, 2024. Summit Station is ideal for studying long-range intercontinental transport and its effects on the ice sheet surface. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Jocelyn Tuller) SEPTEMBER 22, 2025 – The New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing … [Read more...]

SEPTEMBER 19, 2025 - A U.S. Air Force A-7D Corsair II fighter jet made a short flight across the Missouri River this week to its new home at Siouxland Freedom Park in South Sioux City, Neb. The jet was sling loaded with the help of a CH-47 Chinook helicopter from the Iowa Army National Guard’s Bravo Company 1/171 Aviation Regiment, based in Davenport, Iowa. The A7 was … [Read more...]