Latest "army national guard" stories

Largest annual Guard exercise adds big air power at US northern border

This exercise started in 2012 but has increased sevenfold in size and added major air platforms.

7 months ago

Airmen assigned to the 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons participate in a rescue exercise near Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, March 26, 2021. The 212th RQS provides elite pararescuemen, combat rescue officers and Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape specialists to carry out the 176th Wing's wartime and peacetime rescue missions. (Airman 1st Class Jose Miguel T. Tamondong/Air Force)

A snowstorm and a plane crash stranded 13 in the Alaskan wilderness. The Guardsmen who rescued them have won an award.

Search-and-rescue crews were trying to help sick mountain climbers when a crashed plane needed them, too.

By Rachel S. Cohen

18 months ago

Frontline Photos: Sept. 26, 2021

Army National Guard Black Hawks in Idaho, the USS Mustin in the Pacific, B-1B Lancers in Texas and more in this week's Frontline Photos.

18 months ago

The National Guard had a quiet day in DC standing post against threats they helped prevent

It was a quiet day for the National Guard standing post in Washington D.C. during the inauguration of President Joe Biden.

By Philip Athey

2 years ago

Army Guard task force and Air Force medical personnel are on the frontlines of the COVID fight

Task Force 46 has been deployed since the start of the pandemic.

2 years ago

Fire support: Air Guard crews use drones, C-130s, helicopters and more to battle West Coast blazes

As large fires continue to rage across the West Coast, elements of the Air National Guard from across the U.S. have been sent in to assist on the ground and in the air, high above the flames and the billowing smoke.

By Jared Morgan

2 years ago