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From the Chief: Tell Your Story

One of the most important things I get to do as chief of the National Guard Bureau is tell the Guard’s story — your story. That’s why I’m grateful NATIONAL GUARD, the official publication of NGAUS, is giving me the opportunity to share our story from... Read More Details

Hopeful Signs

It seems that 2022 may not have been such a bad growing year after all, based on some numbers from the autumn harvest. Or could it have been, sticking with the agricultural metaphor, an unexpectedly good second crop? Digital Version For one reason or... Read More Details

Show and Tell

The host of the National Guard Educational Foundation’s popular Minuteman Minute series on YouTube says he has enough content for many years of monthly videos. William Roulett’s confidence is a function of numbers. Each 60-second installment focuses... Read More Details

NGB Chief Visits Guardsmen Training Ukrainian Troops

More than a week after the one-year anniversary of Russia invading Ukraine, the National Guard’s top officer visited Guardsmen in Grafenwoehr, Germany who are helping to ensure the combat effectiveness of Ukrainian troops. Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson... Read More Details

Big NGAUS Weekend: Board Meeting, Capitol Summit

This will be a busy weekend at the National Guard Memorial Museum, the NGAUS headquarters in Washington, D.C. The association’s board of directors, a group of 29 people that governs NGAUS, is set to conduct its annual meeting Saturday. Beginning on... Read More Details

Application Window Open for NGAUS Scholarship

The application window is now open for a $5,000 scholarship available exclusively to NGAUS active life and digital life members and their family members. The application period for the AFBA NGAUS Active Life Member Scholarship runs through June 1. To... Read More Details

Details of President’s Budget Request Emerge

Released last week, President Joe Biden’s fiscal 2024 budget request contains $842 billion for the Defense Department. The total is $26 billion — or 3% — more than what Congress appropriated for the Pentagon in the omnibus spending bill in December... Read More Details

Pentagon’s Inability to Pass Audit Raises Concerns

The Defense Department lacks adequate guidance to oversee its business and financial systems, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. The GAO report also found that the Pentagon risks investing funds in developing and... Read More Details

Higher Cancer Rates Found in Military Pilots, Ground Crews

U.S. military pilots and ground crews are at higher risk for certain cancers than the general population, according to a recent Pentagon study. The study found that air crews had a 24% higher overall cancer rate, while cancer among ground crews was 3... Read More Details

Full-Year CR Would Be 'Historically Costly,' Brown Warns Senate

The U.S. military will have to slow recruiting, cut shipbuilding, delay nuclear modernization and put off all new military construction projects if Congress doesn't pass fiscal year 2024 appropriations, according to Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the... Read More Details