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Pentagon Releases Counter-Drone Handbook
The Pentagon has published a practical handbook designed to help audiences across government, industry and academia better understand and counter the drone threat.
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NGAUS Sees Slight Increase in Active Membership
NGAUS membership among active National Guard officers is up over last year.
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Army Modifies Body Composition Program, Adopts Waist-to-Height Ratio
The Army has replaced the long-standing height and weight tables, circumference-based tape test, and supplemental body fat assessments with the Waist-to-Height Ratio health assessment tool.
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NGAUS to Host Mental Health Symposium on Guard-Specific Challenges, Solutions
NGAUS is hosting a Mental Health Symposium focused on the unique mental health challenges facing National Guard members and their families.
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Army Guard Wins National Aviation Safety Award
The Army National Guard’s Fixed Wing Army Aviation Training Site in Bridgeport, West Virginia, received the 2025 Lt. Gen. Allen M. Burdett Jr. Army Aviation Flight Safety Award during a June 29 ceremony.
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Fighting Words
What were they thinking? When the delegates to the Second Continental Congress signed the Declaration of Independence and indicted King George’s government, they were publicly committing treason. Had things gone differently, the British Crown would’ve had a list of whom to execute.
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NGB: Domestic Missions Bolster Troop Readiness
Domestic missions like the one in Washington, D.C., are helping build National Guard readiness rather than detracting from it, a senior Guard leader said last week during a media roundtable.
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CGOs to Take Centerstage During Conference OPD
Attention all company grade officers…Hear from your own at the 148th General Conference & Exhibition in Indianapolis, Aug. 29 to 31.
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Hegseth: Defense and Fiscal Hawks, Unite!
Urgency, speed, efficiency, competition and lethality: These are the new guiding principles of our War Department. This moment requires defense hawks and fiscal hawks to pull together, and I'm proud to call myself both.
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Air Force Issues New Guidance on Chaplain Corps, Maternity Uniforms
The Department of the Air Force last week released further guidance on implementing a policy directing chaplains to replace rank with religious insignia on their uniforms.
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NGAUS Rally Support for Duty Status Reform
Leaders from several military and veteran service organizations are urging Congress to move quickly on legislation they say would modernize and simplify the way National Guard and Reserve members are placed on duty, paid and credited for their service.
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NGB: Counterdrug Program Adapts to Evolving Threats
Drug trafficking networks often cross state and international borders, and analysts with the National Guard Counterdrug program are helping law enforcement officials identify trafficking routes and connect investigations across jurisdictions to disrupt and stop the flow of illicit drugs.