MARCH 13, 2025 - The Oregon National Guard's 1249th Engineer Battalion is preparing for a year-long mobilization to support security operations along the U.S. southern border. The mission will begin Oct. 1, according to Maj. Christopher Campbell, the battalion's operations officer. "We'll be providing a battalion or sector headquarters of about 50 people with specialized … [Read more...]

MARCH 13, 2025 — Oklahoma Army National Guard Soldiers demonstrated their ability to rapidly mass troops and equipment during live-fire artillery training at Fort Sill March 7-9, 2025. The Soldiers, assigned to the 1st Battalion, 160th Field Artillery Regiment, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, convoyed from armories across Oklahoma to Fort Sill March 7 and began two days … [Read more...]

Members of the New York Air National Guard's 106th Rescue Wing Fire Department, along with other local fire departments, respond to the Pine Barrens Fire off Sunrise Highway in New York, March 8, 2025. The 106th Rescue Wing was the first unit to apply water to the fire during a coordinated response that ultimately included more than 80 local fire departments, additional base … [Read more...]

MARCH 5, 2025 - Alaska Army National Guard aviators assigned to Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 211th General Support Aviation Battalion, landed an HH-60M Black Hawk helicopter on the platform of an Alaska Railroad rail car staged on a bridge above the Chena River near Fairbanks. The two-wheel touchdown on a rail car was the culminating training event of exercise Special … [Read more...]

MARCH 3, 2025 - Historically, battles are won by the side that carries momentum throughout the fight. Taking casualties can stop that momentum in its tracks. In Alaska, those tracks are complicated by extreme cold, ice and snow, making casualty care in arctic environments challenging in the heat of combat. Alaska Army National Guard Maj. Titus Rund, a flight surgeon assigned … [Read more...]