DECEMBER 24, 2024 – Virginia Army National Guard Soldiers assigned to the Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 116th Infantry Regiment, 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, conducted sling load training Dec. 7at Blackstone Army Airfield. Soldiers who are graduates of the Army’s Air Assault and Pathfinder schools shared their skills to help build operational knowledge within … [Read more...]

Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus greet the children of Yakutat after arriving in an Alaska Army National Guard Humvee as part of Operation Santa Claus in Yakutat, Alaska, Dec. 18, 2024. Operation Santa Claus, a longstanding annual community outreach program of the AKNG, has provided gifts such as toys, backpacks, and books to children in remote Alaskan communities since 1956. The … [Read more...]

U.S. Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Gerardo Balsa and Staff Sgt. Grant Cozart, defenders with the 105th Airlift Wing’s Base Defense Group, pose with their fellow graduates at the Brazilian Jungle Warfare School graduation in Manaus, Brazil, Nov. 22, 2024. Balsa and Cozart are two of only 50 American military members to complete the course since it was established in 1964 to … [Read more...]

DECEMBER 19, 2024 - National Guard Soldiers and community members gathered at Fort Lesley J. McNair Dec. 13 to celebrate the National Guard’s 388th birthday at the annual National Guard Bureau Fun Run and Ruck. The event, hosted by Army Lt. Gen. Jon Stubbs, 23rd director of the Army National Guard, brought together participants of all ages and fitness levels for a morning of … [Read more...]

Maj. Gen. Michel Natali, assistant adjatent general for the state of New York is joined by Airmen Gabriel Geise, age 18, Master Sgt. Michel Schin, age 59, and Pvt. 1st Class Aliyah Billar, age 17, in cutting the National Guard birthday cake during a ceremony marking the 388th anniversary of the National Guard on Dec. 13, 2024 at New York National Guard headquarters in Latham, … [Read more...]