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Guard to Celebrate SPP’s 30th Anniversary

Officials from around the globe will join National Guard leaders next week to celebrate 30 years of building and nurturing international trust through the State Partnership Program. Since 1993, the SPP has paired the Guard’s 54 organizations with... Read More Details

Congress Returns to Several Pressing Defense Matters

Defense issues take center stage this week as the House and Senate return to work from a two-week recess. The full Senate Armed Services Committee conducted a hearing Tuesday morning to consider the nomination of Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the Air... Read More Details

Chairman's Message: Where 54 Becomes One

Every National Guard officer should attend a NGAUS conference at least once. Chances are, after your first, you’ll want to return again and again. I say this more as a fellow Guard officer than as the NGAUS chairman of the board. In fact, the 145th... Read More Details

Top 2023 Guard, Reserve Employers Recognized

Two public utilities, four local government agencies and nine corporations are the 15 recipients of the 2023 Secretary of Defense Freedom Award, the U.S. government’s highest honor for employers utilizing National Guard and Reserve personnel. Each of... Read More Details

Milley: SPP Makes US, Allies 'Stronger Together'

Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told an audience of senior military officers from around the world Monday that the National Guard’s State Partnership Program has strengthened the U.S. and its allies. "We are stronger... Read More Details

Fighter Recapitalization

THE ISSUE: Support S. 2307 & H.R. 3392, the Fighter Force Preservation and Recapitalization Act of 2023 , to maintain the existing ANG fighter squadrons and require the Secretary of the Air Force to develop a fighter recapitalization plan. ACTION... Read More Details

NATIONAL GUARD Magazine | July 2023

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International Bonds

Latvia needed a tuba for its military band in 1992. And Lt. Gen. John B. Conaway, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, was determined to see that the newly independent country on the Baltic Sea got one. Digital Version It’s a quirky story that is... Read More Details

Added Benefits

Spouses and children of Michigan National Guardsmen can now receive financial help to go to college or trade schools through the Michigan National Guard State Tuition Assistance Program, which previously was only open to those in uniform. Digital... Read More Details

From the Chief: Big Anniversary

This month, our nation celebrates 247 years of independence. We mark the occasion with fireworks, parties and parades, everything wrapped in red, white and blue. We think of the Founding Fathers and the Declaration of Independence, and we wear our... Read More Details