OCTOBER 3, 2024 — “Call out the Guard”, a cliché in 1950’s movies, but a call to action for hundreds of North Carolina National Guard Soldiers and Airmen deployed for the North Carolina Government's Hurricane Helene response. Their mission, provide military capabilities in support of state authorities in order to protect the lives and properties of fellow citizens. “Help is … [Read more...]
Army Fields Latest Artillery Platform
OCTOBER 3, 2024 — The 1-148th Field Artillery Regiment, Idaho Army National Guard, has upgraded its combat capability with 18 new Paladin M109A7 next-generation artillery systems. The regiment conducted its first live-fire exercises using the long-range guns in September at the Orchard Combat Training Center. The new Bradley Fighting Vehicle chassis-mounted howitzer … [Read more...]
WWII POW Returned Home for Burial
OCTOBER 3, 2024 - Illinois Army National Guard Pfc. Harry Jerele of Berkeley, Illinois, is finally home, nearly 84 years after Company B, 192nd Tank Battalion, based in Maywood, was activated for federal service on Nov. 25, 1940. The flag-draped coffin containing his remains arrived Oct. 1 at Chicago O’Hare International Airport aboard American Airlines Flight 2412. A … [Read more...]
Guard Using Drones to Fight Wildfires
Sgt. Donald Underwood, an unmanned aerial systems operator with Delta Company, 545th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Oklahoma Army National Guard, operates a UAS during a multi-agency wildland firefighting unmanned aerial systems integration exercise at Crowder Lake near Weatherford, Oklahoma, Sept. 25-26. The exercise brought the Oklahoma … [Read more...]
NC Guard Delivers Food, Water to Hurricane Victims
Members of the North Carolina Air National Guard transport more than 100,000 pounds of essential goods to Western North Carolina in support of humanitarian efforts following Helene. The cargo, delivered aboard a C-17 Globemaster III, consisted of more than 48 pallets of water, Meals Ready to Eat (MREs), and other vital supplies. (Photo by US Air National Guard Technical … [Read more...]