The U.S. military’s training of Ukrainian forces in Bavaria switched to a new Army National Guard unit over the weekend, as Russia appears poised to launch a new offensive in a war well into its third year.

The Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing officially began the divestment of its A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft, with the first jet departing Gowen Field on Tuesday.

Oregon Army National Guard soldier Maj. Tommy Vu achieved 1,422 hand-release pushups, surpassing the minimum requirement of 1,250 repetitions to qualify as an official Guinness World Record. This is Vu’s seventh world record.

Gen. Chance Saltzman, chief of space operations, said last week that planning to incorporate space-focused Air National Guard missions into the active duty was underway.

Ammar Abdulmajid-Mohamed Said was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization and distributing information related to a destructive device after his arrest near the Army’s Tank-Automotive and Armaments Command facility.

Callie — the only search-and-rescue dog in the Department of Defense — spent six years with the Kentucky National Guard’s 123rd Special Tactics Squadron where she deployed six times in support of rescue missions across the U.S., logged 750 flight hours in military aircraft and located people in natural disasters.

Two NFL Draft picks — Ashton Jeanty for the Las Vegas Raiders and Jalen Milroe for the Seattle Seahawks — and their fathers, connected back to their military roots during a visit to the 128th Air Refueling Wing in Milwaukee, Wis.

Soldiers of the Illinois Army National Guard returned to the bases at Peoria and Rockford in Illinois after a 10-month deployment to the Middle East in support of Operation Spartan Shield.

The show, scheduled for Saturday, was to feature aerial demonstrations from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s C-130J Super Hercules aircraft, and pararescuemen from the Guard’s 123rd Special Tactics Squadron.

The new military deployments have surged to the southern border since Jan. 20 when President Donald Trump ordered the Defense Department to support efforts by the Department of Homeland Security to seal the border.