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More than 140 golfers, the largest number of participants in recent years, enjoyed a nice day on the course at the 28th Annual National Guard Educational Foundation Charitable Golf Tournament at Laurel Hill Golf Club in Lorton, Virginia, Sept. 28.

The Pentagon will soon add a new standardized battlefield-style assessment for senior officers seeking promotion to one-star general or admiral, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced in a video last week.

The Idaho Army National Guard conducted three successful search-and-rescue missions in four days beginning Sept. 16, assisting local agencies with rescues in remote parts of Ada and Custer counties in Idaho.

Army National Guard leaders nationwide joined Army and mobilization enterprise partners Sept. 15-17 at the National Guard Professional Education Center at Camp Robinson, Arkansas, for the Director of the Army National Guard Large-Scale Mobilization Operations Tabletop Exercise.

Airmen from the Illinois Air National Guard’s 126th Air Refueling Wing participated in a town hall Sept. 13 with Maj. Gen. Bryony Terrell, the deputy director of the Air Guard.

Recently introduced House legislation would allow all active service to count toward reduced-age retirement for National Guard and Reserve members.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Dan Caine said the U.S. needs to be prepared for future conflicts in which its adversaries will be able to closely track the location of American forces and attack with autonomous systems that use artificial intelligence.

Massachusetts’ 104th Fighter Wing formally became the Air National Guard’s fifth F-35A Lightning II unit during a Sunday ceremony at Barnes Air National Guard Base in Westfield, Massachusetts.

While commemorations in New York and Washington, D.C., drew national attention, National Guardsmen in several states held or participated in activities Friday that brought local focus to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

For the second consecutive year, the NGAUS general conference featured a range of voices tackling issues relevant to National Guard leaders at every echelon.

“Together, we need to lead boldly, and we can never be late to need.” That’s how Air Force Gen. Steve Nordhaus, the 30th Chief of the National Guard Bureau, challenged National Guard leaders to keep pace with a dynamic security environment. He described the Guard as a force that continuously adapts and modernizes while keeping its 435,000 Guardsmen and their families ready for missions at home and abroad.

Gen. Christopher LaNeve, the acting Army chief of staff, emphasized the Army National Guard’s indispensable, multidomain contributions to the Joint Force Aug. 29 at the 148th General Conference & Exhibition in Indianapolis.