Washington Report

The House on Tuesday afternoon voted to pass a government funding package that tees up the end of the partial shutdown, which is its fourth day.

Industry officials will gather Feb. 9-10 at the National Guard Memorial, the association’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., to learn of the Guard's latest requirements.

The National Guard associations of North Carolina, Tennessee and Texas were honorees at the National Guard Executive Directors’ Association’s first “Oscars” last week in Indianapolis, as part of the annual NGEDA meeting.

Senators currently face a Friday deadline to pass a $1.3 trillion package of six spending bills, including defense, and to avoid a partial government shutdown.

NGAUS hosted 46 attendees from 29 states at its annual two-day Legislative Workshop earlier this month with one major theme: working with the 54.

More than 5,300 National Guardsmen are supporting local response and recovery efforts across 15 states in the wake of Winter Storm Fern.

Retired Maj. Gen. Philip G. Killey, a Vietnam War fighter pilot who went on to serve as director of the Air National Guard from 1988 to 1994, the Operation Desert Storm era, died Sunday in Scottsdale, Arizona. He was 84.

The Pentagon last week released a memo directing the U.S. military to start using a waist-to-height ratio to evaluate the body fat of troops.

The Army pulled back the curtain on the first M1E3 Abrams prototype earlier this month at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit.

After a screening of SHEEPDOG last week in Washington, D.C., the NGAUS chief of staff joined a panel comprised of cast members and a representative of the Department of Veterans Affairs to discuss the movie’s depiction of veteran post-traumatic growth.

An Air National Guard medical officer supporting operations in the nation’s capital helped deliver a baby in the front seat of a car just outside a hospital emergency room days before Christmas.

Two members of the House Armed Services Committee last week introduced legislation aimed at reducing the complex, confusing and unequal system of more than 30 National Guard and Reserve duty statuses to four broad categories.