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  • Airmen receive countersniper training before deployment

    Airmen from several security forces squadrons throughout the country who are currently mobilized at Fort Bliss underwent training Thursday to learn how to mitigate sniper threats. The training is conducted by members of the 204th Security Forces Squadron, which is based at Biggs Army Airfield, said

  • Air Force utilizes Bliss for predeployment training

    As a tenant unit at Fort Bliss, Airmen assigned to the 204th Security Forces Squadron are fully aware of the assets they have in their own backyard and utilized them the first three weeks in January to train fellow Airmen preparing to deploy. "Fort Bliss' 1.2 million acres of training area and

  • California has wheels up for new airborne firefighting system

    A long anticipated upgrade to the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) that's used to battle the nation's wildfires was recently approved for operational use, months before the next fire season. MAFFS II was approved for use on the California Air National Guard's 146th Airlift Wing C-130J

  • Gates: Guard's domestic missions must not suffer

    The National Guard's domestic responsibilities must not suffer because of operational missions, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told the Senate Armed Services Committee today. "The demand for Guard support of civil authorities here at home remains high," Gates said in a statement to the committee.

  • National Guard on duty to support inauguration

    About 9,300 National Guardsmen and women are supporting the 56th Presidential Inauguration, the Guard's largest contribution to an inauguration in its 372-year history. "The scope is incredible," Gen. Craig McKinley, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, said on Monday. "This is the largest

  • National Guard to support inauguration

    Approximately 10,000 National Guardsmen and women will support the 56th Presidential Inauguration, helping to ensure a safe and secure environment for all attendees. They will provide security, traffic control and crisis response personnel as well as musical units, marching bands, color guards,

  • Guard's Counterdrug warriors endeavor to test one and all

    BROOKS CITY-BASE, Texas - Finding a single drug abuser among thousands of servicemembers can compare to a shell game, but the National Guard is placing all odds in its favor. The National Guard is striving to keep its Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen drug free through an increase in drug tests and the

  • 'Psst ... don't forget your ID card,' say Air Guard's network protectors

    Air National Guardmembers at the Air Guard's Readiness Center on Andrews Air Force Base, Md., may soon have a friendly reminder to secure their Defense Department photo and data identification, "Common Access Cards" (CACs) when away from their computers, said its network security officials here this

  • Guardmembers earn discretionary points for joint designation

    Discretionary points can now be earned through the Joint Officer Management Program (JOM) to achieve the Joint Qualified Officer designation. NGB's JOM staff administers a Joint Qualification System (JQS) enacted by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2007, which provides for the attainment of