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House Approves New Benefits for Burn Pit Exposure

The House passed sweeping military toxic exposure legislation on Thursday that would grant new disability benefits for illnesses linked to burn pits in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Promise to Address Comprehensive Toxics Act (H.R. 3967) would establish... Read More Details

Army Grants First Religious Vaccine Waiver

The Army has granted its first permanent religion-based exemption from taking the mandatory coronavirus vaccine, according to data the service released on Friday. The waiver for an active-component soldier comes some three months after the Army’s... Read More Details

House Bill Would Provide DD-214 to Guardsmen

National Guard and Reservists would receive the same DD-214 form as active-component personnel following their retirement or completion of service under legislation introduced last week by a bipartisan group of House lawmakers. Rep. Andy Kim, D-N.J... Read More Details

Burial Equity Bill Passes Congress

Congress passed legislation last week that ensures every National Guardsman and Reservist is eligible to be buried in state veterans’ cemeteries — as long as their service was not terminated under dishonorable conditions. The Burial Equity for Guards... Read More Details

Final 2022 Budget Includes Guard Vehicles, Aircraft

The $1.5 trillion spending plan that President Joe Biden signed Friday to fund the government through September includes several billion dollars to purchase new tanks and aircraft for the National Guard. The action averted a partial government... Read More Details

FY22 DOD Appropriations

President Biden signed H.R.2471 into law on 11 March 2022. Read More Details

Commission Cuts List of Potential New Base Names

The federal Naming Commission has released a list of 87 potential names for nine posts named for Confederate generals. The list was selected from 3,670 unique names the congressionally mandated commission received via its website and during... Read More Details

NGB Refutes Russian Report of Dead Guardsmen in Ukraine

Three current or former Tennessee Army National Guard officers, who a Russian media outlet claimed were mercenaries killed in Ukraine, are alive and in the U.S., the National Guard Bureau said Thursday. The Russian website Pravda.ru had claimed... Read More Details

New Policy Helps Guardsmen Leaving COVID Duty

National Guardsmen demobilizing from COVID-19 operations on federal orders for 180 continuous days or more may now get their separation history and physical examination from a fully credentialed National Guard medical clinician. The new policy... Read More Details

NGEF Honors 10 New Major Donors

The National Guard Educational Foundation recognized 10 major donors Saturday evening at a special reception at the National Guard Memorial, the NGAUS headquarters in Washington, D.C. The 10 recently contributed a combined $100,000 to the foundation... Read More Details