Air Force Times Guard & Reserve Section

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JBLM houses airspace protection program

A red circle slowly moves across one of seven computer screens on the desk of Tech. Sgt. Mary Maggiolino.
- Aug. 11, 2013
- NEWS /
- Guard & Reserve
General: National Guard up for future demands

National Guard Air and Army units should be able to maintain their readiness and deployment capabilities indefinitely despite a murky federal military budget outlook, the chief of the National Guard Bureau said Monday.
- Aug. 5, 2013
- NEWS /
- Guard & Reserve
Watch it: Ga. Air National Guard gets water survival training

The 116th Air Control Wing of the Georgia Air National Guard got some hands-on water survival training for the first time from the Army National Guard.
- Aug. 5, 2013
- NEWS /
- Military Technology
Air Guard unit OK'd to fly Reapers in Syracuse area

The commander of the Air National Guard unit that operates remotely piloted drones from its central New York base is holding a news conference to discuss the expansion of the airspace in which it operates.
- Aug. 5, 2013
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- Guard & Reserve
Guard aviators patrolling southwest border

Virginia National Guard aviators are helping battle illegal immigration along the U.S. southwest border.
- Jul. 30, 2013
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- Guard & Reserve
Police: Man detained with gun at Mich. guard base

Authorities say a man carrying a handgun was detained by military police at an entrance to Selfridge Air National Guard Base.
- Jul. 23, 2013
- JOBS FOR VETERANS /
Federal hiring preference proposed for Guard, reserve

National Guard and reserve members would receive preferential hiring credit for federal civilian jobs under bipartisan legislation introduced Thursday in the House and Senate.
- Jul. 18, 2013
- NEWS /
- Guard & Reserve
Guard could be vulnerable to furloughs

As sequestration- and furlough-fever grips the U.S. military this week, one promise has always been that airmen, soldiers, sailors and Marines would be exempt from the 20 percent pay cut and being sent home one day a week — a process that began July 8.
- Jul. 16, 2013
- NEWS /
C-130 units called to Arizona after death of firefighters

The busy summer for firefighting C-130s has continued, with two specially equipped C-130 units continuing to fight fires in Arizona after taking over for two other units that had been in the fight since early June.
- Jul. 13, 2013
- NEWS /
Vt. city reverses position on F-35s at airport

The City Council in the Vermont city that is home to Burlington International Airport on Monday reversed a decision it made last year to oppose plans by the Air Force to base F-35 fighter planes there with the Vermont National Guard.
- Jul. 9, 2013
- CAREERS /
- Officers
New adjutant general named for Nebraska National Guard

Gov. Dave Heineman named Brig. Gen. Daryl L. Bohac on Monday to serve as the new adjutant general of the Nebraska National Guard, a command that oversees more than 4,600 Army and Air Guard personnel throughout the state.
- Jul. 8, 2013
- NEWS /
- Guard & Reserve
Guardsmen, friend mistakenly given cash at Taco Bell drive-thru

That was no burrito.
- Jul. 3, 2013
- NEWS /
- Guard & Reserve
N.C. Air Guard crew remembered in South Dakota

Officials have dedicated a memorial in western South Dakota that honors North Carolina National Guardsmen whose air tanker crashed while they were fighting a wildfire last summer.
- Jul. 2, 2013
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- Guard & Reserve
Deployment canceled for Ore. National Guard members

About 60 National Guard members in Pendleton who have been figuring for a year that they were headed for Afghanistan in January to fly helicopters have been told to stand down.
- Jun. 26, 2013
- NEWS /
- Guard & Reserve
Wash. Army, Air National Guard units practice responses to toxic leaks, natural disasters, more

Depending on the season, Washington state faces a variety of natural disasters.
- Jun. 25, 2013
- NEWS /
- Guard & Reserve
Mock Afghan village under construction in S.D.

Army National Guard soldiers are building a mock Afghanistan village in western South Dakota that will be a target for Air Force bomber practice missions.
- Jun. 24, 2013
- NEWS /
- Congress & DOD
Senate votes for border hiring plan for reservists, veterans

The Senate voted Thursday for a program that would offer bonuses and incentives to National Guard and reserve members and to veterans who take border security jobs with the Department of Homeland Security.
- Jun. 20, 2013
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- Guard & Reserve
F-15s begin leaving Montana Guard base

The first of 20 F-15 fighter jets assigned to the Montana Air National Guard has left Great Falls for Fresno, Calif., as the 120th Fighter Wing begins changing its mission.
- Jun. 19, 2013
- NEWS /
- Guard & Reserve
Retirement credits add up for some Guard, Reserve

National Guard and Reserve airmen who have served nontraining active-duty tours over the past five years have been accumulating credits that can significantly reduce their eligibility age for retirement benefits, according to officials with the Air Force
- Jun. 18, 2013
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- Guard & Reserve
La. Guard's top enlisted adviser fired

The Louisiana National Guard's highest officer has fired his top enlisted adviser for alleged sexual harassment.
- Jun. 18, 2013
- NEWS /
- Guard & Reserve
Some Wisconsin National Guard members face furloughs

Hundreds of Wisconsin National Guard members face furloughs as the result of the automatic federal budget cuts that took effect earlier this year.
- Jun. 17, 2013
- CAREERS /
Weighing the future: E-6 loses 56 pounds to save Air Force career

After four failures on his physical training test, Tech. Sgt. Patrick Kennedy knew he needed to change. He had been active for five years, and has been in the Reserves for another seven.
- Jun. 16, 2013
- NEWS /
- Guard & Reserve
Military sends aircraft, trucks, crews to CO fires

The military is providing 10 aircraft, more than 40 firefighters and multiple fire trucks and bulldozers to help civilian agencies fight the Black Forest wildfire.
- Jun. 13, 2013
- NEWS /
- Guard & Reserve
Reserve C-130s to help fight Colorado fires

The Air Force is now entering the fight against wildfires in Colorado.
- Jun. 12, 2013
- NEWS /
Guard teams see rise in crises calls

The threats may change, as well as the locations, but a constant behind-the-scenes workforce after man-made and natural disasters has been a small group of Air and Army National Guardsmen.
- Jun. 11, 2013