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Bills Would Provide Guard with GI Bill Credit Parity
National Guardsmen and Reservists would earn credit toward Post-9/11 GI Bill benefits for nearly every day they spend in uniform under legislation...
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2 New York Guardsmen Killed in Texas Helicopter Crash
Two New York Army National Guard aviators were killed Friday afternoon when their UH-72 Lakota light utility helicopter crashed near Rio Grande City...
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Guard Wing to Swap Fighters for Cyber
The Maryland Air National Guard’s 175th Wing will swap the unit’s fighter mission for an expanded cyber mission, the Air Force announced March 7. The...
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NGAUS Board Meeting, Capitol Summit Set for This Weekend
This will be a busy weekend at the National Guard Memorial, the NGAUS headquarters in Washington, D.C. The association’s 29-member board of directors...
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NGAUS Creates New Scholarship Program
NGAUS has teamed with Columbia Southern University in Orange Beach, Alabama, to provide a new scholarship for the association's active annual members...
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Bill Would Create Air Guard Federal Tuition Program
Drill-status Air National Guardsmen would have a permanent federal tuition assistance program under bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate...
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NGB Chief, House Lawmaker Address Guard Industry Partners
A prominent House appropriator and a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff headlined the 26th Annual NGAUS Industry Day Tuesday at the National Guard...
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NGAUS Task Forces Gather for Resolutions Training
NGAUS hosted the association’s 13 task force chairs in Washington, D.C., Monday for training on how their efforts help inform decisions on Capitol...
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Guard Marks 387th Birthday
Today is the National Guard’s 387th birthday. On Dec. 13, 1636, the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s General Court, the colony’s legislature, organized the...
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Guard Gets Some Wins in Compromise Defense Bill
The National Guard would get another four-star general, parental leave parity and progress toward fighter recapitalization in the compromise fiscal...
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Hokanson: Guard Part of America's Fabric
SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, says he has seen how the National Guard is part of "the fabric...
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NGAUS: Myths Continue to Delay Creation of a Space National Guard
WASHINGTON (Dec. 7, 2023) — Retired Brig. Gen. J. Roy Robinson, the NGAUS president, issued the following statement on the House and Senate Conference...
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Industry Day Brings Together Buyers, Sellers
NGAUS will once again bring together National Guard leaders and officials from many defense companies at the association’s 26th Annual Industry Day...
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Full-Year CR Would Be 'Historically Costly,' Brown Warns Senate
The U.S. military will have to slow recruiting, cut shipbuilding, delay nuclear modernization and put off all new military construction projects if...
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Lawmakers to Air Force: Give Fighters to Guard, Reserve Squadrons
A bipartisan group of lawmakers is pressing the Air Force to temporarily move fighters in its active-component units to Air National Guard and Reserve...
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Jill Biden Hosts Guard Families at White House
For the second straight year, first lady Jill Biden welcomed National Guardsmen, their spouses and their children to the White House in Washington, D...