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  • Texas Guard helps South Texas victims

    For close to a quarter million people, a calm is beginning to settle across the South Texas Rio Grande region after the relentless lashing that Hurricane Dolly doled out. This calm is due in part by the relief efforts of strike task forces that set out before dawn July 24 to set up points of

  • Guard capability tears down communications walls between first responders

    A National Guard capability can rapidly bridge communications gaps between first responders to domestic incidents, senior defense officials saw during a hands-on demonstration at the Pentagon. The Joint Incident Site Communications Capability (JISCC) provides voice, data, video and radio links

  • 149th Civil Engineers complete Southern California tasks

    Four dozen members of the 149th Civil Engineer Squadron traveled from San Antonio, Texas, to southern California June 14-28 to help with construction projects in support of Operation Jump Start, the National Guard's southwest border security support mission. . Camp Morena, in a remote area some 50

  • RC-26 'eye in the sky' rapidly deploys

    In the early hours of July 23, Hurricane Dolly came ashore along the South Texas coast, bringing with it 100-mph winds and heavy rainfall. As the sun rose over the Rio Grande Valley, no one knew how much damage the winds and rain had caused, or would cause, as the storm worked its way inland. Parts

  • Mullen: Guard families connect America, the armed forces

    Because it's in every community in the nation, the National Guard is best suited to keep the American people connected with the armed forces, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here Monday. "This is something we have to do better: To make sure that the military needs of our country are

  • Maryland Civil Engineers Restore Bosnian Memorial

    The Maryland Air National Guard's 175th Civil Engineer Squadron has nearly completed work on a memorial to three Americans, who died here during the Bosnian civil war officials said today. Seventy-two members of the Maryland Air National Guard are in Bosnia taking part in two civic construction

  • Mullen: National Guard essential to the warfight

    Leadership changes in the National Guard are historic for a reserve component that is essential to the overseas warfight, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said here on Monday. Adm. Michael Mullen was addressing a record-breaking crowd of 1,500 attending the National Guard Bureau's Joint

  • McKinley: Airmen play key roles in joint National Guard

    Airmen are an integral part of fulfilling an increasingly joint National Guard's domestic and overseas missions, the director of the Air National Guard said here Wednesday. Lt. Gen. Craig McKinley told a record-breaking audience of 1,500 gathered for the National Guard Bureau Joint Family Program

  • A RED HORSE rises in Ohio

    The Air National Guard's oldest rapid engineering, deployable, heavy operational repair squadron engineer (RED HORSE) set itself anew here July 20 with the historic activation of a new 200-person detachment, 37 years after the squadron's inception. Although a morning storm at Mansfield Air Guard

  • Guard pilot's fitness program goes nationwide

    One Arizona fighter pilot is no longer flying solo - at least not in her efforts to make the Air National Guard a fitter force, less prone to death or injury resulting from poor fitness. Maj. Windy Hendrick, an F-16 instructor pilot at the 162nd Fighter Wing, developed the "9G Force Fitness" program