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 Guard & Reserve

  1. A soldier monitors a computer screen at the Western Air Defense Sector at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash. Along with the Eastern Defense Sector based in Rome, N.Y., WADS monitors the continental United States for threats from the sky as part of the North American Aerospace Defense Command. Ted S. Warren/AP

    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
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    Gen. Frank Grass, chief of the National Guard Bureau, addresses a room of Kansas Army and Air National Guard members Aug. 5 during a stop in Topeka, Kan. Grass discussed the future of the National Guard and the challenges caused by reduced federal military spending. John Milburn / AP

    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
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    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
  2. 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 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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    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
  3. 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
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    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
  4. Two of the 146th Airlift Wing's C130-Js equipped with a Modular Airborne Firefighting System assisted with firefighting efforts in Arizona. Mike Freer via Air Force

    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
  5. An F-35 fighter taxis May 12, 2012, at Edwards Air Force Base. Lockheed Martin via AP

    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
  6. 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
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    Soldiers make their way onto the tarmac July 11, 2012, for the arrival of the remains from Dover Air Force Base of four N.C. Air National Guard airmen in Charlotte, N.C. Lt. Col. Paul Mikeal, Maj. Joseph McCormick, Maj. Ryan David and Senior Master Sgt. Robert Cannon all died July 1, 2012, when their C-130 crashed while fighting a wildfire in the South Dakota Black Hills. Two crewmen were injured. Todd Sumlin / The Charlotte Observer via AP

    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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    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
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    Washington Army National Guard Maj. Gen. Bret D. Daugherty, right, talks with Peter Goldmark, commissioner of the Department of Natural Resources, June 19 in Richland, Wash. Elaine Thompson / AP

    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
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    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
  7. 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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    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
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    Members of the 129th Rescue Wing from the California Air National Guard earn day-to-day credits toward early retirement for up to 90 days deployed within a fiscal year. Tech. Sgt. Dennis J. Henry Jr. / Air Force

    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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    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
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    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
  8. AFTER: Tech. Sgt. Patrick Kennedy lost 56 pounds and 8 inches off his waist by changing his diet and walking two miles a day. Photos courtesy of Patrick Kennedy

    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
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    Army helicopters drop water June 13 on the Black Forest wildfire behind houses on the Flying Horse Ranch in Colorado Springs, Colo. The residential area was evacuated Thursday. More than 350 homes have been destroyed by the fire since Tuesday. Ed Andrieski / AP

    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
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    Two C-130s equipped with the Modular Air Fire Fighting System will help fight wildfires in southern Colorado. Staff Sgt. Stephany D. Richards / Air Force

    Reserve C-130s to help fight Colorado fires

    The Air Force is now entering the fight against wildfires in Colorado.

    • Jun. 12, 2013
  9. 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

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