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STARTING POINT
Feb 01, 2009; ... Early Bird An F-16 Fighting Falcon belonging to the Minnesota Air National Guard's 148th Fighter Wing sits on the hot cargo pad at Joint Base Balad, Iraq, as the sun rises Dec. 31. The aircraft is tethered in place before a full afterburner engine run-up. Buttery ...
MAIL CALL
Feb 01, 2009; ... Saying the Right Thing I was quite troubled by the Chairman's Message in the January NATIONAL GUARD magazine. One of the Army values is moral courage, which means saying and doing the right thing even when it will cost something personally. Both as a former combat arms ...
Time to be Bold
Feb 01, 2009; ... Historic moments of opportunity rarely look that way to the people feeling the stress and pain of difficult times. Sometimes the greatest opportunities are shrouded in uncertainty, chaos and seemingly insurmountable odds. However, this country has always had men and women able to see ...
The Way Ahead
Feb 01, 2009; ... As the NGAUS legislative staff prepares to advocate on Capitol Hill for the resources and policies that will ensure a strong and ready National Guard, success will, in part, depend on formulating an effective strategy. In most organizations or institutions like the Guard, it helps to ...
SOUND BITES
Feb 01, 2009; ... "Our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred." -President Barack Obama, Inaugural Speech Washington, D.C., Jan. 20 GOLDEN RULE "When I first went [to Iraq], the [detainees] didn't really like us. They got along with us, and they ...
TRICARE Reserve Select Monthly Rates Reduced
Feb 01, 2009; ... National Guardsmen and Reservists are paying less for TRICARE Reserve Select (TRS) medical coverage in 2009. The monthly premiums dropped Jan. 1 by 42 percent for individuals, from $81 to $47.51. Family coverage fell 29 percent, from $253 to $180.17. The TRS program has been ...
Texas Helicopter Crash Kills Two, Injures Three
Feb 01, 2009; ... The crash of a Texas National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter shortly after takeoff at Duncan Field at Texas A&M University Jan. 12 claimed the lives of one Guard soldier and one member of the active-component Army. Three other Texas Army Guardsmen were hospitalized in stable ...
DoD: No Purple Hearts For Those With PTSD
Feb 01, 2009; ... War veterans who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder will not receive the Purple Heart, the Pentagon has announced. This ends hope for many veterans of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that they would receive the hallowed medal for their sacrifice and remove some of the stigma ...
Guardsmen Sue KBR; Cite Negligence in Iraq
Feb 01, 2009; ... A lawsuit has been filed against defense contractor KBR and others by 16 Indiana National Guard soldiers who claim they were exposed to carcinogens while guarding a water-pumping plant in Iraq in 2003. The suit says KBR was aware that a chemical present at the Qarmat Ali plant was a ...
National Guard Casualties
Feb 01, 2009; ... No mobilized National Guard soldiers or airmen died in December while supporting the Global War on Terrorism, according to Defense Department reports. It was the ...
Official: Air Force Cyber Decisions Still Pending
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Air Force is still deciding when and where to stand up a numbered Air Force that will have cyber warfare as its primary mission. "That's a decision that's being made by the chief of staff of the Air Force [Gen. Norton A. Schwartz] and the secretary of the Air Force [Michael B ....
Low Hispanic Numbers In Military Topic of Study
Feb 01, 2009; ... Lower high school graduation rates and higher rates of obesity are two of the reasons why many Hispanics are denied entry into the U.S. military, according to a RAND Corporation study released last month. Although Hispanics do well once in the military, they are underrepresented in all ...
Guard Families Eligible For Child Care Subsidy
Feb 01, 2009; ... The National Guard Bureau is reminding Guard families that they are eligible lor a child care subsidy during a family member's deployment. Mike Conner, chief of program services for NGB's Family Program Office, said last month that the Guard program grew out of one designed for ...
Disney Offers New Military Discounts
Feb 01, 2009; ... Military members, including Guardsmen with orders showing active status after Jan. 1, 2008, and retirees are eligible for free multiday admission to Disney's U.S. theme parks, reduced rates at select Walt Disney World Resort and Disneyland Resort hotels, and additional special ticket offers for ...
Points Available For Joint Status
Feb 01, 2009; ... Discretionary points can now be earned through the Joint Officer Management Program (JOM) to achieve the Joint Qualified Officer designation. NGB's JOM staff administers a Joint Qualification System (JQS) enacted by the National Defense Authorization Act of 2007, which provides for the ...
GWOT-EM Medal Eligibility Enlarged
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Pentagon recently expanded the areas of eligibility for the Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal (GWOT-EM). The approved additions are two countries-Morocco and Burkina Faso-and Operation Nomad Shadow, with an initial area of eligibility of Turkey and northern Iraq. In March ...
G-RAP Celebrates Third Anniversary
Feb 01, 2009; ... The Army National Guard recruited its 80,000th soldier through the Guard Recruiting Assistance Program (G-RAP) on Dec. 9, a senior Army National Guard official said in Washington, D.C. Since its inception in December 2005 as the Army Guard's adaptation of civilian contract recruiting, ...
The Guard Was There!
Feb 01, 2009; ... Magazine Archives Below is an excerpt from the February 1965 issue of National Guard. It's part of a series of relevant articles from the magazine's more than 60 years of archives. Raging flood waters spread death and destruction in California, Oregon, Washington and Idaho during ...
2nd Chance
Feb 01, 2009; ... Youth ChalleNGe offers high school dropouts a way to turn their lives around The buildings on a slice of Fort Gordon, Ga., are decades old and showing wear. A coat of paint wouldn't be out of order. Yet the place might as well be Disneyland to Janet Zimmerman, who says, "Magic happens ...
FLYING COLORS
Feb 01, 2009; ... The 192nd Fighter Wing has fully settled into its new home and aircraft, thoroughly impressing its Air Force hosts along the way LANGLEY AIR FORCE BASE, Va. When the Virginia Air National Guard's 192nd Fighter Wing left its home at Richmond International Airport in Sandston, Va., ...