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Hearing-Loss Treatment Study Seeks Guardsmen

A Massachusetts-based biotech company is looking for current and former National Guardsmen with hearing loss to participate in a free clinical study of a promising therapy designed to restore at least some hearing. Frequency Therapeutics has been... Read More Details

Snow Days

Guard soldiers and airmen team with local authorities to respond to winter storm. Read More Details

Mark Hensch

Mark Hensch joined NGAUS as the senior writer/editor in the communications department on March 7, 2022. His duties include writing and editing the association’s weekly e-newsletter, Washington Report , as well as writing stories for NATIONAL GUARD... Read More Details

New Staffers Start Work at NGAUS

NGAUS has added two new employees familiar with the way things work in the nation’s capital to its headquarters staff in Washington, D.C. Mark Hensch ( left ) is the new senior writer/editor in the communications department, while Alec Gonzalez (... Read More Details

NGAUS President Testifies Before Congress

Retired Brig. Gen. J. Roy Robinson, the NGAUS president, touted zero-cost TRICARE, benefit parity and a single document to record military service to replace the active-duty only DD-214 in testimony to a joint session of the Senate and House Veterans’ Affairs committees. Read More Details

House Approves New Benefits for Burn Pit Exposure

The House passed sweeping military toxic exposure legislation on Thursday that would grant new disability benefits for illnesses linked to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act (H.R. 3967) would establish... Read More Details

Army Grants First Religious Vaccine Waiver

The Army has granted its first permanent religion-based exemption from taking the mandatory coronavirus vaccine, according to data the service released on Friday. The waiver for an active-component soldier comes some three months after the Army’s... Read More Details

House Bill Would Provide DD-214 to Guardsmen

National Guard and Reservists would receive the same DD-214 form as active-component personnel following their retirement or completion of service under legislation introduced last week by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers. Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J... Read More Details

Burial Equity Bill Passes Congress

Congress passed legislation last week that ensures every National Guardsman and Reservist is eligible to be buried in state veterans’ cemeteries — as long as their service was not terminated under dishonorable conditions. The Burial Equity for Guards... Read More Details

Final 2022 Budget Includes Guard Vehicles, Aircraft

The $1.5 trillion spending plan that President Joe Biden signed Friday to fund the government through September includes several billion dollars to purchase new tanks and aircraft for the National Guard. The action averted a partial government... Read More Details