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Arkansas Chosen for New F-35 Training Center
Air Force leaders have selected Ebbing Air National Guard Base in Fort Smith, Arkansas, as the preferred location to establish an F-35A Lightning II...
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NGAUS Adds to Legislative Team
Kevin Brown has joined NGAUS as a legislative analyst. His first day at the National Guard Memorial, the association’s headquarters in Washington, D.C...
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Air Force Budget Request Includes Aircraft Divestments
The Air Force plans to divest more than 200 aircraft with its fiscal 2022 budget request. Officials want to use the cuts to free up $1.3 billion to...
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Army Faces Cuts in Biden's First Defense Budget
An emphasis on countering China and the withdrawal from Afghanistan means the Army is facing funding cuts in President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2022 budget...
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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...