Obituary

Retired Brig. Gen. Stephen Koper, the NGAUS president from 2004 to 2009, died Oct. 31. He was 84. Koper spent 32 years in uniform, all of it in the Ohio Air National Guard.

Former U.S. senator and Missouri governor, Christopher S. “Kit” Bond, died May 13 at age 86. He co-founded the Senate National Guard Caucus in 1988.

The man who jump-started the Army National Guard’s transformation to an operational force has passed away.

Two New York Army National Guard aviators were killed Friday afternoon when their UH-72 Lakota light utility helicopter crashed near Rio Grande City...

Maj. Gen. Carol Timmons — a former adjutant general of Delaware, NGAUS board member and long-time trailblazer for women in uniform — died Sunday. She...

Retired Chief Warrant Officer 4 Raymond A. Mabarak passed away Feb. 17. He was 98. Mabarak was widely known by NGAUS conference attendees as the...

Rep. Walter Jones, a longtime supporter of service members and known for his fierce independent streak in Congress, has died. Jones, 76, who had been...

John O. Marsh Jr., who spent 25 years in the Virginia National Guard, eight years in Congress and served as President Ronald Reagan’s Army Secretary...

Ray Magill, who served on the NGAUS board of directors as the retired/separated Air representative from 1995 until 2010, died July 24 in North...