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NGAUS to Offer Lower-Cost Digital Life Membership
National Guard officers will soon have a new, lower-cost option to become life members of their association. The NGAUS board of directors earlier this...
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Air Force Approves Special Leave Accrual for 2021
Airmen, including Guardsmen serving on Title 10 or Title 32 orders, can now accrue up to 120 days of annual leave for fiscal year 2021, leaders...
Press Release
NGAUS to Congress: Time is Now to Repay the Guard
WASHINGTON (July 21, 2021) — Retired Maj. Gen. Michael McGuire, the NGAUS chairman, and retired Brig. Gen. J. Roy Robinson, the NGAUS president...
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Veterans Can Apply to Upgrade Discharge, Correct Military Records
The Defense Department is reminding veterans they can apply to correct inaccuracies or injustices in their military records. That includes an upgrade...
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Reprogramming Dollars Another Option for Guard Funding Hole
The Pentagon is asking Congress to allow it to move $521 million from Air Force, Army and Navy facility restoration and modernization accounts as a...
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No Deal Yet as Funding Deadline Looms
Despite broad bipartisan support to reimburse nearly $521 million to the National Guard, a solution continues to languish in Congress. Negotiations...
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Lack of Funding Would Degrade Guard, TAGs Warn
States are looking at several difficult decisions as a deadline for National Guard funding looms. Without being reimbursed nearly $521 million for the...
NGAUS on the Hill
July 2021
President Biden released the FY22 President’s Budget on May 28th, 2021. The request included $776.3 million for 24 UH-60M Black Hawks designated for...
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DoD Seeks Reprogramming to Fund Border, COVID Missions
The Pentagon is looking to shift $4.3 billion in the defense budget to help pay for the deployment of troops to the southern border, the pandemic...
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Fight Over Capitol Funding Continues, Guard Deadline Looms
Time is quickly running out for Congress to approve $521 million in National Guard funding to reimburse the force for its five-month Capitol mission...
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Guard Border Mission Extended
The U.S. military’s mission on the southern border will extend for at least a fourth year, officials announced. Up to 3,000 troops will be deployed to...
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Legislation Would Require Cleaning of Contaminated Facilities
Members of Congress are pushing legislation that would require the Defense Department to clean up bases contaminated by toxic chemicals known as PFAS...
