A sampling of advocacy in the nation's capital and other key locations, including highlights of meetings and events on Capitol Hill and at the Pentagon.
Soldiers with the Florida Army National Guard’s 3rd Battalion, 265th Air Defense Artillery Regiment last month trained alongside the 82nd Airborne Division at the Joint Readiness Training Center at Fort Polk, Louisiana.
Attendees of the 148th General Conference & Exhibition, Aug. 28-31 in Indianapolis, will have opportunities to visit what Time magazine calls one of the “World’s Greatest Places of 2026.”
Live-fire training is a daily reality for National Guard units, with thousands of rounds expended during a single training cycle. The result is a large and continuous stream of spent brass that must be managed under strict property, safety, and accountability rules.
The White House will unveil the framework of its proposed $1.5 trillion fiscal 2027 defense budget request to Congress on Friday, according to multiple published reports.
Military chaplains will stop wearing rank in uniform, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth announced last Tuesday as part of two significant changes affecting the Chaplain Corps.
The Wyoming National Guard expanded its field artillery capability March 20 by training Soldiers in one of the Army’s most in-demand roles, the 13M High Mobility Artillery Rocket System crew member.
The Department of War is giving service members who involuntarily separated for refusing to take the COVID-19 vaccine another year to apply for reinstatement.
The National Guard Educational Foundation recognized another 13 major donors Saturday evening during a special reception at the National Guard Memorial, the NGAUS headquarters in Washington, D.C.
The “death gratuity” paid to the families of fallen service members would double from $100,000 to $200,000 to keep up with inflation under legislation introduced earlier this month.