The National Guard Bureau said that the Novavax vaccines, which are based on more traditional technology, should arrive at units this month.

Many members of the 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment (5th Maryland) of the Maryland Army National Guard split from the Union during the Civil War and took up arms for the South.

Col. Sonya Morrison obtained the highest rank of her career when she was officially installed as the first female commander of the Iowa Air National Guard's 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City.

Col. Renea Dorvall assumed command of the Montana Army National Guard during a change of command ceremony held at Fort Harrison.

Sharon Harmon attained the rank of colonel at a promotion ceremony at the Joint Force Headquarters, Camp Fogarty, in East Greenwich, R.I.

A former National Guard member who admitted in pleading guilty to a weapons charge that he sought out violent extremists and discussed a potential attack on Virginia Beach police was sentenced Monday to four years and nine months in prison.

More than half of the Texas National Guard members deployed along the state’s border with Mexico have said they would be willing to volunteer for another year of the same duty, the mission’s commander told state lawmakers

Maj. Gen. David Baldwin, who has presided over a series of scandals during the last 3½ years, will retire at the end of the month.

Military training flights normally take place during the day, but South Carolina Air National Guard pilots and maintenance crews are required to conduct periodic nighttime missions as part of their preparations.

Congress’ inability to pass timely spending bills is hindering a National Guard program that trains Ukrainian forces, the chief of the National Guard Bureau told House lawmakers.

The Biden administration urged a federal judge on Wednesday to reject Oklahoma’s challenge to the COVID-19 vaccination requirement for National Guard members, saying the state didn’t even challenge the correct mandate.

The lawsuit emerges as the latest development in an ongoing fight between state leaders and the federal government as Gov. Kevin Stitt has pushed back on the COVID-19 vaccine mandate for the military that would apply to the Oklahoma National Guard.

The deployments come as rural areas of Northern and Central California face their most intense COVID-19 surge yet.

Derrick Terelle Sankey was arrested Monday after he attempted to pick up and transport a kilogram of cocaine from an undercover agent at a restaurant in Hidalgo, Texas and take it to a hotel in McAllen for $1,000, according to a criminal complaint.

A member of the Alabama National Guard appeared before a judge Tuesday after he was arrested for attempting to transport cocaine while in uniform and driving a Border Patrol vehicle in Hidalgo County on Monday.

Pvt. Justin Edwards, 22, became enraged after a fellow solder kicked him in the genitals while the two were "practicing fighting moves" on each other, according to the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office.

Spc. Nashyra S. Whitaker, 23, died at the scene of the single-vehicle accident that occurred at about 2:15 a.m. Sunday in McAllen, Texas.

While most military bases hit by the storm returned to normal operations Tuesday, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans remained closed.

Troops staged 195 high-water vehicles and 73 rescue boats across south Louisiana, as well as 34 helicopters to support search and rescue, evacuation and reconnaissance missions as needed, according to the Guard.

John Clements Newell is charged with felony aggravated sexual intercourse without consent and felony strangulation stemming from an incident at Fort Harrison on Aug. 19.

A spokesperson for Mayor Jim Kenney said there are no plans to request help from the National Guard, but he remains open to community input on other ways to reduce violence.

Senior Airman Taylor Labrier, 31, was on temporary duty assignment to the 81st Training Wing at Keesler Air Force Base in Biloxi, Miss., and attending Air Force school at the time of his death.

Texas National Guard troops now have the authority to arrest migrants who cross the state’s border with Mexico, according to an order issued Tuesday by Gov. Greg Abbott.

The 122nd Engineer Battalion of the South Carolina National Guard was established in 1946, and several decades of soldiers celebrated the occasion in Edgefield, S.C., gathering for about three midday hours in the town square.

Units will have to ground aircraft, cancel long-planned summer training operations and weekend drills, and the Guard’s 54th Security Force Assistance Brigade could miss a rotation to a major combat training center without the funding by Aug. 1, top Guard officials from several states said in a news briefing.

The Ohio National Guard Soldiers will join the estimated 3,000 Guard personnel requested from other states to support the Southwest Border mission.

Hunger among Guard members and reservists is more than double the national rate, according to U.S. Census Bureau data from mid-April through early June. They report more food insecurity than nearly any other group, regardless of household income, education, age or race.

Aviation and ground vehicle readiness at Guard units across the country will be affected if the money is not returned, Army Secretary Christine Wormuth said during a budget hearing of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s subpanel for defense.

The National Guard could be forced to ground aircraft and make deep cutbacks to training and maintenance if it is not reimbursed by August for its mission in Washington, D.C., after the breach of the Capitol in January, an advocacy group said Wednesday.

Spc. Joshua S. Robinson, a 22-year-old from Baton Rouge, La., died Thursday at Camp Buehring, Kuwait, as the result of an undisclosed noncombat-related incident that is under investigation, the Pentagon said in a statement.