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Heroes on the Homefront

The war in Iraq ambushed Jackie McKenna in the haven of her home in Savannah, Georgia, while she was videoconferencing with her husband, John, a deployed Georgia Army National Guard officer. An explosion in the background immediately made her... Read More Details

Great Bosses

Cpl. Robert Raber was in the U.S. Virgin Islands responding to Hurricane Maria last year when his house in Tennessee caught fire. “I have a wife at home,” says the soldier with the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 269th Military Police Company. “She... Read More Details

Nominations Would Mean Leadership Switch at Guard Bureau

Two senior National Guard leaders will shuffle positions if the Senate confirms White House nominations submitted last week. Lt. Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson, the vice chief of the National Guard Bureau, would become director of the Army National Guard... Read More Details

Guard Has MILCON Projects That Could be Diverted to Build Wall

A congressional tally of unobligated military construction funds that could be diverted to help build a wall on the southern border includes hundreds of millions of dollars currently slated for National Guard projects. The funding represents all... Read More Details

Future Fight Driving Significant Army Organizational Change

The Army is exploring major changes to its force structure to better prepare for future fights, according the director of the Army’s Futures and Concepts Center. Lt. Gen. Eric Wesley delivered the remarks during a fireside chat with Army... Read More Details

New Legislation Tackles Guard, Reserve Suicides

Bipartisan legislation introduced last week would expand National Guard and Reserve access to mental health care, regardless of deployment status. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., announced the Care and Readiness Enhancement... Read More Details

President's Budget Request Increases Defense Spending

President Donald Trump is requesting $718 billion for the Defense Department for fiscal 2020, a $33 billion, or 5 percent, increase from the current year. In all, national defense spending — including Pentagon programs, war costs and nuclear weapons... Read More Details

AFBA Scholarship Application

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Budget Request Includes 64 Black Hawks for the Army Guard

Sixty-four UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters for the Army National Guard highlight President Donald Trump’s $718 billion request for the Pentagon. The topline for defense jumps to $750 billion after adding $32 billion for nuclear weapons programs under... Read More Details

15,851 Military Deaths Since 2006: Congressional Report

Nearly 16,000 service members have died while on active duty since 2006, but more than seven in 10 of them have been while outside combat zones, a report from the Congressional Research Service has found. The report, which used statistics from the... Read More Details