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Florida Spc. Brandon Brown earned the title of 2026 Army National Guard Soldier of the Year and Arizona Sgt. Michael Fouts was named the 2026 Army National Guard Noncommissioned Officer of the Year from July 11 to 14 at the closing ceremony at the 2026 Army Guard National Best Warrior Competition.

Maj. Gen. Duke Pirak announced last week in a letter posted on Air Guard social media sites his decision to step down as acting director of the Air National Guard effective July 31.

The Pentagon has published a practical handbook designed to help audiences across government, industry and academia better understand and counter the drone threat.

Congressional staffers and officials of veteran and military service organizations gathered at the National Guard Memorial on Monday to participate in a Mental Health Symposium hosted by NGAUS.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a former South Carolina Air National officer and the co-chair of the Senate National Guard Caucus since 2010, died Saturday. He was 71.

NGAUS membership among active National Guard officers is up over last year.

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.

NGAUS is hosting a Mental Health Symposium focused on the unique mental health challenges facing National Guard members and their families.

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.

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.

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.