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A new handbook exists to help National Guardsmen and Reservists choose their TRICARE health care coverage, according to the Defense Health Agency.

The chief of the National Guard Bureau says the nation's governors have a "big concern" about the Air Force's proposed plan for the Guard's space personnel.

The Air Force is now taking applications from airmen who rank staff sergeant (E-5) and above to be the service’s first new warrant officers in 65 years.

A prominent member of Congress told a reporter April 17 that NGAUS should not "waste their time" fighting a legislative proposal from the Department of the Air Force to transfer the Air National Guard's space units to the Space Force.

A bipartisan group of 10 state governors is urging the Department of the Air Force to retract Legislative Proposal 480, its plan to transfer the Air National Guard's space units to the Space Force.

A National Guardsman who died as a prisoner of war during World War II has been identified and will return home, according to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

The NGAUS concern is the dangerous precedent the proposal would set by bypassing the requirement in federal law to obtain the consent of the affected governors before transferring Air National Guard space units in seven states to the Space Force.

The 54 states, territories and the District of Columbia may once again each use federal funds to send a small number of officers to this year's NGAUS conference, according to guidance the National Guard Bureau issued April 8.

More than 100,000 drilling National Guardsmen and Reservists who are full-time federal employees would be eligible to purchase TRICARE Reserve Select health care under legislation introduced in both the House and Senate last week.

The chief of the National Guard Bureau says the nation cannot afford to move the Guard’s space units into the Space Force.

WASHINGTON (April 12, 2024) — Retired Maj. Gen. Frank M. McGinn, the NGAUS president, issued the following statement on Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall’s remarks to reporters Wednesday.

WASHINGTON (April 11, 2024) — The voice of more than 45,000 current and former National Guard officers today applauded Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., for recently co-sponsoring Senate legislation to create a Space National Guard.