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Magazine: Artificial Intelligence, Home & Gone, Guard Sacrifice

Advancing technology is making simulators more realistic than ever, but artificial intelligence will provide an even bigger leap ahead in simulation training, and it’s not far off. See in this month’s issue of National Guard how the latest simulators... Read More Details

Tape Test May Soon be Thing of the Past

Defense officials expect to decide on changes to the infamous “tape test” by next summer, potentially revamping one of the main ways commanders evaluate their troops’ fitness and body composition, according to the Army Times . The Pentagon has been... Read More Details

Legislation Would Loosen GI Bill Transfer Rules

A new bill in the Senate would eliminate the Pentagon’s planned Post-9/11 GI Bill transfer restrictions and even allow some who have left the military to pass their educational benefits to family members. Last summer, the Defense Department announced... Read More Details

November 2018-Election Update

The 2018 midterm elections were held on November 6. For the 116th Congress beginning in January 2019, Democrats will control the House of Representatives, while Republicans will control the Senate. Fifteen new members of Congress have military... Read More Details

Insurance

In addition to the rewards that come from successfully securing more resources for the National Guard, members also enjoy specific benefits that provide immediate support to families today. Unified membership allows NGAUS to offer various insurance... Read More Details

VA Secretary: 'We Will Follow the Law' on GI Bill Checks

Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert Wilkie told NGAUS that officials are working to correct issues that caused delays to Forever GI Bill housing benefit payments. In an interview that will be published in an upcoming issue of NATIONAL GUARD magazine... Read More Details

Frontline Defense Reporter Joins NGAUS

An experienced defense reporter who has embedded with troops in Iraq and Afghanistan joined the NGAUS communications team this week. Drew Brooks will write and help direct and edit NATIONAL GUARD magazine and Washington Report , the association’s... Read More Details

Indiana Congressman Addresses NGAUS Industry Day

Rep. Jim Banks, R-Ind., stressed the importance of Congress working with the executive branch on defense issues while speaking today to industry professionals and National Guard leadership at the 22nd Annual NGAUS Industry Day in Washington, D.C... Read More Details

Entrepreneurship Bill Passes Senate

Legislation to help small-business owners who serve in the National Guard has passed the Senate and could be approved by the House in the coming weeks. The National Guard and Reserve Entrepreneurship Act — which NGAUS endorsed — was unanimously... Read More Details

Inhofe Sets Priorities in First Speech as SASC Chairman

Sen. Jim Inhofe, R-Okla., the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, said there was “no strategic rationale for any cut” to defense in his first public speech as the head of the influential committee. Speaking at the National Defense University at... Read More Details