Washington Report

The Oklahoma Army National Guard recently hosted a battlefield resilience camp that for the first time deliberately combined suicide prevention and holistic health principles with infantry squad-level tactics in a single training program.

U.S. Soldiers with the North Dakota, Arkansas and Nebraska Army National Guard, assigned to Joint Task Force-District of Columbia, or JTF-DC, in support of the D.C. Safe and Beautiful mission, responded to a shooting incident at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

The two retired/separated representatives on the NGAUS board of directors unveiled the working concept to establish a new association task force at last week’s retired/separated virtual meeting.

Army leaders have implemented a new seven-event fitness test for Soldiers in combat-arms jobs, the service announced last week in a release.

North Dakota Army National Guard Capt. Chris Spangler did not know what to expect when he came to Washington, D.C., earlier this month for the first NGAUS Capitol Summit of 2026.

The association is accelerating its push for Duty Status Reform, its top priority in deliberations on fiscal 2027 defense legislation.

The chief of the National Guard Bureau underscored the Guard’s indispensable dual role in testimony Friday before the House Appropriations Committee Subcommittee on Defense.

The first Honor Flight Guardian sponsored by the new National Guard Educational Foundation program accompanied some veterans from Florida last week visiting memorials in Washington, D.C., commemorating their service.

Adjutants general from 22 states with Air National Guard fighter units signed a letter to Congress this month seeking multiyear funding for the Air Force to purchase between 72 and 100 new fighter jets to recapitalize the Total Air Force.

The NGAUS president discussed the association’s advocacy efforts, his evolution as a military and association leader, and how the Guard has changed since the first Persian Gulf War and 9/11 in recent installment of From the Dive Shop podcast.

Two National Guardsmen who risked their lives to save another person in separate incidents, a governor and a U.S. senator who is a former governor, top this year’s NGAUS individual awards recipients.

The White House Office of National Drug Control Policy recognized National Guard counterdrug programs for support to 10 award-winning law enforcement investigations during the National Drug Control Awards Ceremony on April 2.