Army National Guard

Drawing on nearly four centuries of service and the National Guard’s ongoing operational tempo, the Guard Bureau’s senior leaders last week urged the enlisted force to sustain the Guard’s edge.

The Army National Guard is strengthening its role in the Joint Force with the acquisition of 12 Gray Eagle® 25M unmanned aircraft systems.

NGAUS members across the 54 states, territories and the District of Columbia will gather later this month at the 148th General Conference & Exhibition to hear defense leaders and network with their peers. But the core of the conference — and the reason the 54 gather annually — is to complete the association’s legislative resolution process.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order in the Oval Office yesterday establishing the President's Military Spouse Commission.

The leaders of the 116th Mobile Brigade Combat Team came to Washington, D.C., late last month to share its lessons learned as the first Army National Guard brigade to complete a Joint Readiness Training Center rotation under the Army’s new MBCT construct.

National Guard units are supporting wildfire suppression operations in multiple states, providing aerial firefighting aircraft, helicopters and personnel to assist civil authorities as significant wildfire activity continues across the Midwest and West.

A new policy providing guidance on the use of artificial intelligence was announced in a memorandum published by National Guard Bureau on July 20.

On July 15, senior leaders from NGAUS and the New Hampshire National Guard presented Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., with the Harry S. Truman Award, the association’s highest honor.

Florida Spc. Brandon Brown earned the title of 2026 Army National Guard Soldier of the Year and Arizona Sgt. Michael Fouts was named the 2026 Army National Guard Noncommissioned Officer of the Year from July 11 to 14 at the closing ceremony at the 2026 Army Guard National Best Warrior Competition.

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.