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Defense Budget Request Gets Mixed Reviews
Military leaders are defending President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2022 defense budget as it comes under attack from Republican leaders. The budget proposal...
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Bill Would Address Incentive Pay Gap
New legislation would help ensure National Guard soldiers and airmen are compensated at the same rate as their active-component counterparts. The...
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NGAUS Applauds Legislation That Would Provide Health Care To Guardsmen, Reservists
WASHINGTON (May 27, 2021) — Nearly 45,000 current and former National Guard officers are applauding a bipartisan House bill that would provide medical...
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Bill Would Extend No-Fee Health Care to Guard Members
Bipartisan legislation would help ensure that every National Guard soldier and airman has access to health care. The Healthcare for our Troops Act was...
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SASC Takes Up SECAF Nominee
The Senate Armed Services Committee considered the nominations of three potential Pentagon leaders Tuesday, including the likely next Air Force...
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Renaming Commission Will Review More than Bases
A Pentagon commission tasked with reviewing military bases named for Confederate leaders is expanding its work to look at places and things with other...
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Hokanson Talks Guard Missions, Needs at Appropriations Hearing
The chief of the National Guard Bureau addressed congressional concerns about aging aircraft, a Space National Guard and more during a Senate hearing...
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Capitol Mission Ends but Costs Remain
A five-month mission at the U.S. Capitol that at its peak involved 26,000 National Guard soldiers and airmen from all 54 states, territories and the...
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Biden Plans Budget Release Next Week
President Joe Biden is expected to submit his first full budget request May 27, the White House announced last week. The fiscal 2022 request will...
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Army Nominee Concerned about Guard Deployments
President Joe Biden’s nominee to be Army secretary told members of Congress last week that she is concerned about “unreasonable or unhelpful demands”...
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House Leaders Seek Guard QRF at U.S. Capitol
The National Guard’s security mission at the U.S. Capitol is set to end next week, but Guardsmen may not be gone from the nation’s capital very long...
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Report: Deep Cuts Planned for Fighter Fleet
The Air Force is looking at retiring more than 420 fighter aircraft by 2026 in what would be the largest fleet reduction in roughly a decade. The...