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NGAUS Presents Highest Award to Georgia Senator

NGAUS bestowed the 2018 Harry S. Truman Award to Sen. Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., today in his state office in Atlanta. Isakson and Sen. Jon Tester, D-Mont., are co-recipients of this year’s award. They are the chairman and ranking Democrat of the Senate... Read More Details

New Military Recruiting Ads Target Parents

Pentagon officials are employing a new tactic to recruit from an American public largely unaware of opportunities for young people in the military. They are asking parents and teachers to help spread the word. Defense Department officials announced... Read More Details

Troops Not Rushing to New Retirement Program

Only one in six service members eligible to enroll in the military’s new retirement system has done so, according to data reported by Army Times . The Blended Retirement System combines a pension—albeit smaller than the old system—for those who serve... Read More Details

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In Country

Terry MacDonald chuckles when asked why he enlisted in the Indiana Army National Guard in 1968. “To stay out of Vietnam,” he says. I’ll be honest with you. Everybody will tell you that.” Why the laugh? Because his plan fell a bit short. MacDonald’s... Read More Details

Show & Tell

More than 300 companies and organizations will pack the exhibition floor at the 140th General Conference & Exhibition in New Orleans this month. While the business sessions will feature a lineup of top speakers, the trade show is an equal highlight... Read More Details

Retro Attack

Air Force leaders believe fourth- and fifth-generation fighters are too much airplane for many missions around the world. Secretary Heather Wilson recently cited an F-22 Raptor mission in Afghanistan conducted last year. The stealth fighter capable... Read More Details

A Conversation with Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel

As chief of the National Guard Bureau, Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel answers directly to Defense Secretary James N. Mattis. But it’s not the first time the Texas Air National Guard officer has worked for the former Marine general. Lengyel was chief of the... Read More Details

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