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Unvaccinated Air Guardsmen to Lose Pay, Benefits

Approximately 2,500 Air Guardsmen are set to lose pay and benefits due to being unvaccinated. And thousands more could be in for a similar fate if requests for exemptions continue to be denied. Meanwhile, Texas has joined its neighbor Oklahoma in... Read More Details

House Votes to Expand Guard GI Bill Eligibility

Guard soldiers and airmen would accrue credit toward GI Bill educational benefits more like their active-duty counterparts under legislation passed by the House last week. The National Guard and Reserve GI Bill Parity Act (H.R. 1836), which the House... 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

Stopgap Budgets Hurt Military, Pentagon Tells Congress

Continued budget gridlock would degrade readiness, hurt service members and their families, squander purchasing power, and sabotage the U.S. military’s efforts to compete with China, Pentagon leaders told Congress last week. Without approved fiscal... Read More Details

COVID Surge Triggers Beefed-Up Guard Response

The National Guard has once again surged its COVID-19 support missions, this time in response to a pandemic peak in hospitalizations that has stretched health care providers thin. More than 15,600 Guardsmen were supporting state and local officials... Read More Details

Capitol View: Securing GI Bill Benefit Parity for Citizen-Soldiers

By Rep. Greg Pence, R-Ind. Too often, many members of Congress find themselves so deeply wrapped up in the political theatre and rhetoric of Washington, D.C., that they forget the true reason they are here. It is an honor to serve the Hoosiers of... Read More Details

Count On Us

Our country followed a year no one imagined with a 2021 that was hardly much better. But, once again, things would’ve been much worse for many Americans without the National Guard. Read More Details

Iron Canvas

Air Guard units paint the nose and other parts of their aircraft to show state and local pride or commemorate history. Read More Details

Bill Would Open State Cemeteries to More Guardsmen, Reservists

Bipartisan legislation in both chambers of Congress would ensure every National Guardsman and Reservist is eligible to be buried in state veterans' cemeteries — as long as their service was not terminated under dishonorable conditions. Digital... Read More Details

Another Surge

Governors deploy Guardsmen to hospitals after COVID spike overwhelms medical facilities. Read More Details