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Governors frequently call up the National Guard during natural disasters, but presidents have historically avoided federalizing Guard units without a state’s consent — doing so only five times before 2025.

The National Guard Bureau today operates with two of its four senior positions filled by leaders in an “acting” capacity with less than the correct rank. In fact, NGB has not had all four posts filled by Senate-confirmed officers of the appropriate rank in 16 months.

President Donald Trump said Saturday that active-duty service members would get paid today, despite the government shutdown that is now in its third week.

President Donald Trump, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, honored victims and first responders of the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks Thursday.

President Donald Trump signed an executive order Friday changing the Defense Department’s name to the Department of War as a “secondary” title.

As many as 800 District of Columbia National Guard troops were activated Monday to “address the epidemic of crime in our nation’s capital,” President Donald Trump announced during a press conference.

The presidents of the NGAUS and the AGAUS have asked President Donald Trump to reaffirm his campaign pledge to establish a Space National Guard.

A federal appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to maintain control of the California National Guardsmen he deployed to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids.

President Donald Trump has nominated Lt. Gen. Thomas Carden, the deputy commander of U.S. Northern Command, for the No. 2 position at the National Guard Bureau.

Seven more Army bases will revert to their long-standing names, President Donald Trump said June 10 at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, but not to honor their original namesakes.

Soldiers of the 42nd Infantry Division and the division’s band will represent the Army National Guard in the Army’s 250th anniversary parade June 14 in Washington D.C.

Prominent Republicans are saying President Donald Trump’s fiscal 2026 defense budget request does not deliver the “unprecedented” increase in defense and border security the White House claims.