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The NGAUS conference is the association’s annual business meeting and delegates in Milwaukee adopted legislative resolutions, approved a change to the bylaws and elected new members to the board of directors.
The resolutions will serve as the basis of the association’s action plan next year when Congress takes up fiscal 2027 defense legislation.
In all, delegates considered 232 resolutions and adopted 223 (100 Joint, 22 Army and 101 Air).
They also exercised a provision in the bylaws approved last year and deleted 156 resolutions that had been on the books for more than a decade but were no longer relevant.
One of the deleted resolutions supported the procurement of the Single Channel Ground and Airborne Radio System. The Army is replacing SINCGARS radios with the new Combat New Radio, said retired Col. Jon “Ice” Eisberg, the NGAUS vice president for government affairs.
Next year, delegates will consider resolutions approved from 2015 to 2018 for deletion and the following year 2019 through 2024, Eisberg said.
Reducing the number of resolutions streamlines the process of prioritizing the issues the association’s legislative staff takes to Capitol Hill, he added.
Delegates approved a bylaws change this year that alters the process required to reset NGAUS membership dues.
Gone are the specific annual dues amounts and the costs of life memberships. Those fees will now be set by a two-thirds vote of the association board subject to ratification by delegates at the next general conference.
This change allows flexibility and preserves member oversight, said Brig. Gen. Joe Hargett of Mississippi, the chair of the NGAUS bylaws committee.
This year’s board elections included the three representatives (TAG, Army and Air) in Area I and Area IV, the company-grade representative-Air and the retired/separated representative-Air.
All three Area I representatives were reelected: Maj. Gen. Gary Keefe, the adjutant general of Massachusetts; Brig. Gen. Jeff LaPierre of Connecticut as the Army rep; and retired Col. Steve Greco of New Hampshire as the Air rep.
Area IV will have two new representatives as delegates elected Brig. Gen. Christopher Thomas of Mississippi as the new Army rep and Lt. Col. Seana Eason of Arkansas as the new Air rep.
Eason currently serves as the NGAUS Awards Committee chair.
Maj. Gen. Thomas Mancino of Oklahoma was reelected as the Areas IV TAG rep.
Delegates also elected Capt. Ashlyn Garrett of Arkansas as the new company grade-Air rep; and reelected retired Maj. Gen. April Vogel of Maryland as the retired/separated representative-Air.
A listing of the full board can be found here.
The first meeting of the new board is set for November at the National Guard Memorial, the association’s headquarters in Washington, D.C.
—NGAUS staff report
