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Air Force Approves Special Leave Accrual for 2021

Airmen, including Guardsmen serving on Title 10 or Title 32 orders, can now accrue up to 120 days of annual leave for fiscal year 2021, leaders announced last week. The increased leave is potentially double the typical 60 days of leave each year. Air... Read More Details

NGAUS to Offer Lower-Cost Digital Life Membership

National Guard officers will soon have a new, lower-cost option to become life members of their association. The NGAUS board of directors earlier this month approved a four-year test of a digital active-life membership. At $500, it will be half the... Read More Details

Still No Deal on Guard Funding

Time is running out to reimburse the National Guard for the Capitol Response mission, with some states already beginning to cancel training due to a lack of funding. Nearly $521 million is owed to the Guard to pay for the five-month mission, which... Read More Details

SASC NDAA would Stop Aircraft Cuts, but No Separate Space Guard

The Senate Armed Services Committee has completed the markup of its fiscal 2022 defense policy bill. The National Defense Authorization Act would change the name of the Air National Guard to the Air and Space National Guard, prohibit further... Read More Details

NGAUS Applauds Congress for Reimbursing Guard’s Capitol Mission

WASHINGTON (July 30, 2021) — Retired Maj. Gen. Michael McGuire, the NGAUS chairman, and retired Brig. Gen. J. Roy Robinson, the NGAUS president, issued the following statement today on the congressional action to replenish the $521 million the... Read More Details

Hundreds of Guardsmen Battling Fires

Guardsmen from at least seven states are currently supporting firefighting efforts across the American west, part of a busy fire season that has grown to become a year-round effort. Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, the chief of the National Guard Bureau... Read More Details

Masks are Back as Military Looks at Mandatory COVID Vaccines

Military installations in high-risk areas are once again requiring masks as a measure to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III is consulting military medical professionals and the Joint Chiefs of Staff to... Read More Details

Financial Crisis Averted after Deal Reached, Bill Signed

The National Guard narrowly avoided a large funding shortfall to end the fiscal year after President Joe Biden signed emergency legislation on Friday to reimburse more than half a billion dollars spent during the five-month Capitol response mission... Read More Details

Defenders

Be careful when you talk to Col. Victor Moncrieffe II about the Air National Guard's security forces. And don't make the mistake of calling them security guards . To Moncrieffe, those are fighting words. “We’re not security guards,” the chief of the... Read More Details

All Ears

Something was wrong. Chaplain (Col.) Robert Morris saw it as he recently watched an Idaho Army National Guard company run two miles in preparation for an upcoming PT test. While most of the soldiers ran around the track together, one soldier was... Read More Details