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NDAA, Now in Senate, Boosts Guard Equipment

The Senate is expected to vote this week on the fiscal 2019 National Defense Authorization Act that was passed last week by the House. Following the Senate vote, the defense policy bill will go to the White House for the president’s signature. The... Read More Details

Longtime NGAUS Board Member, Parliamentarian, Dies

Ray Magill, who served on the NGAUS board of directors as the retired/separated Air representative from 1995 until 2010, died July 24 in North Falmouth, Massachusetts. He was 88. Burial was last week in the Massachusetts National Cemetery. He was... Read More Details

Deploying? Leave that Fitbit at Home

Deployed troops will have to leave their Fitbits, Apple watches and other “geolocation devices” at home. A Defense Department policy announced Monday also forbids any device or app that tracks the location of the user. Col. Robert Manning III told... Read More Details

Georgia Air Guardsman named Outstanding Airman

Staff Sgt. Wilson B. Gardner was selected as the Air National Guard's 2018 Outstanding Airman of the Year, and one of the Air Force's 12 Outstanding Airmen of the Year. Gardner, an airfield systems craftsman with the 202nd Engineering Installation... Read More Details

Deploy or get out? Not if You're Wounded

The Pentagon has identified exemptions from its new policy that troops who are unable to deploy will face separation. The policy of deploy-or-get-out was criticized because it seemed to include service members who had been wounded in combat. The... Read More Details

Legislative Priorities

These priorities are the product of the Resolutions Process, our grassroots approach to developing the NGAUS legislative agenda. Each year, these priorities are reassessed to ensure maximum lethality, readiness and safety for Guardsmen. Read More Details

Fiscal 2019 NDAA

Overview On August 13, 2018, President Donald Trump signed into law H.R. 5515, the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year (FY) 2019. The U.S. House of Representatives passed the bill on July 26, while the U.S. Senate passed it on... Read More Details

Army, Air Force Chiefs to Address National Guard Conference

Three members of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will top the agenda when some 3,000 National Guard officers and their guests from across the country gather Aug. 24 to 27 in New Orleans for the 140th NGAUS General Conference & Exhibition. Conference... Read More Details

Vietnam Memories, Slow Aircraft, New Orleans

Fifty years ago, National Guardsmen went to Vietnam. Yes, they did. And several of them recall those times, including an elephant attack, in the August edition of NATIONAL GUARD, the award-winning NGAUS magazine. It may look like an old airplane and... Read More Details