A 19-year-old hiker injured in a rock-climbing accident in Idaho’s Sawtooth Mountains was successfully rescued in a joint operation by the Idaho National Guard and Custer County search and rescue team. The high-altitude rescue presented unique challenges to the team.
The National Guard Bureau has launched a second pilot program to offer soldiers in certain states child care during drill weekends after the first attempt launched nearly two years ago failed.
The section of State Highway 133 that runs through Oakland, Ill., was named the 1st Lt. Jared W. Southworth Memorial Highway in a ceremony Saturday. Southworth was killed by an improvised explosive device Feb. 8, 2009, in Helmand Province, Afghanistan.
New York National Guardsmen trained on soldier-borne sensor drones — tiny, portable, pocket-size vehicles effective at reducing hazard to soldiers by performing tasks that otherwise would be done by hand, and providing reconnaissance to soldiers from a safe distance.
Retired New York National Guard Master Sgt. Luis Barsallo received the Bronze Star Medal with “V’ device last week in recognition of his heroic actions 20 years ago in Iraq.
Staff Sgt. Ryan Carter walked into Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on April 6, 2018, for a common back surgery meant to alleviate chronic neck pain. He never walked again. Carter is suing the military hospital and surgeon for the trauma his spinal cord suffered.
A new era has begun for the 106th Rescue Wing at the Francis S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base: The HH-60W Jolly Green II search and rescue helicopter has arrived.
Nearly 400 National Guard troops in California are now deployed in a mission to stop people from smuggling fentanyl into the state at its southern border with Mexico, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced.
The chief of the National Guard Bureau said Tuesday that stationing Guard members on the U.S.-Mexico border detracts from their military mission and underutilizes troops.