Air National Guard

The California Air National Guard’s 146th Airlift Wing and the Wyoming Air Guard’s 153rd Airlift Wing have been activated to support wildland firefighting operations in the western United States.

The District of Columbia National Guard's 260th Special Purpose Brigade recently commissioned its first maritime security vessel, marking the first time an Army unit in the nation's capital has operated a dedicated waterborne platform.

Congressional staffers and officials of veteran and military service organizations gathered at the National Guard Memorial on Monday to participate in a Mental Health Symposium hosted by NGAUS.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., a former South Carolina Air National officer and the co-chair of the Senate National Guard Caucus since 2010, died Saturday. He was 71.

Maj. Gen. Duke Pirak announced last week in a letter posted on Air Guard social media sites his decision to step down as acting director of the Air National Guard effective July 31.

The Pentagon has published a practical handbook designed to help audiences across government, industry and academia better understand and counter the drone threat.

NGAUS is hosting a Mental Health Symposium focused on the unique mental health challenges facing National Guard members and their families.

NGAUS membership among active National Guard officers is up over last year.

Domestic missions like the one in Washington, D.C., are helping build National Guard readiness rather than detracting from it, a senior Guard leader said last week during a media roundtable.

Attention all company grade officers…Hear from your own at the 148th General Conference & Exhibition in Indianapolis, Aug. 29 to 31.

Urgency, speed, efficiency, competition and lethality: These are the new guiding principles of our War Department. This moment requires defense hawks and fiscal hawks to pull together, and I'm proud to call myself both.

The Department of the Air Force last week released further guidance on implementing a policy directing chaplains to replace rank with religious insignia on their uniforms.