MARCH 31, 2025 – Soldiers from the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team have begun training on upgraded Stryker vehicles the brigade received recently. As part of a program to modernize the 56th SBCT, the brigade is receiving 324 upgraded Strykers. Twenty-five of those Strykers are now at Fort Indiantown Gap, where they are being used to train Soldiers. The upgraded vehicles … [Read more...]
National Guard Fights South Carolina Wildfires
MARCH 28, 2025 – Following a successful fire suppression support mission in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina National Guard aviation units are helping control wildfires in the Upstate. U.S. Army Soldiers from Alpha Company, 1-111th General Support Aviation Battalion from McEntire Joint National Guard Base in Eastover and the 2-238th General Support Aviation Battalion from the … [Read more...]
Soldiers Rescue Plane Crash Victims on Glacial Lake
Three plane crash survivors stand on the wing of a PA-12 Super Cruiser aircraft during a recent AKARNG 207th Aviation Troop Command rescue mission, March 24, 2025 (Courtesy photo) MARCH 27, 2025 - Alaska Army National Guard Soldiers with G Company, 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion, rescued three people from the wreckage of a crashed PA-12 Super Cruiser aircraft … [Read more...]
Guard Provides Lift for Army Futures Command
MARCH 26, 2025 - On a chilly and dusty morning at Fort Irwin, aka the “Sandbox,” four Oregon Army National Guard CH-47F Chinook helicopters are loaded up with Soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division’s Combat Aviation Brigade and equipment from the Army Futures Command, as they begin testing on a field training exercise March 9-14. The Army Futures Command, headquartered in … [Read more...]
Guard Rescues Great Smoky Mountains Hiker
MARCH 26, 2025 – A Tennessee Army National Guard flight crew based at Joint Base McGhee-Tyson rescued an injured hiker in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park March 22. Shortly after 5:30 p.m. Eastern time, the Tennessee National Guard and the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency were notified an injured hiker needed medical assistance and rapid transport to a nearby … [Read more...]