National Guard

• Oregon Army National Guard, Camp Rilea, Clatsop County, OR; Danger Zone

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is proposing to establish a new danger zone in the waters adjacent to Camp Rilea located in Clatsop County, Oregon. The regulation would prohibit any activity by the public within the danger zone during use of weapons training ranges. The new danger zone is necessary to ensure public safety and satisfy the Oregon National Guard operations requirements for small arms training.

• Federal Register Nbr. 77 FR 25952, May 02, 2012
• Proposed rules
• Defense Department

• National Guard Gathers for Downtown Conference: Nation

There are no big walls or barbed wire, but downtown Charleston sure looks like a military base this week. More than 2,500 National Guard representatives from all across the country plus a few U.S. territories are in Charleston for the 40th Annual Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States National Conference. The event, dubbed Almost Heaven, Two-Thousand Eleven started Sunday and will end today. Deanna Myers came to Charleston with her husband, Master Sgt. Thomas Myers, president of Marylands EANGUS chapter. She said shes enjoying her time in the Mountain State. Its beautiful, she said. The couple and their son Joseph had lunch at Tidewater Grille in the Town Center Mall on Tuesday before Thomas had to rush back to an afternoon of meetings. That was the first time w...

• Charleston Daily Mail
• August 17, 2011

• 5 CFR 831.306 - Service as a National Guard technician before January 1, 1969.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 5: Administrative Personnel

• 32 CFR 536.97 - Scope for claims under the National Guard Claims Act.

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 32: National Defense

• Lawmakers in Arizona Want State Guard to Help When National Guard Is Gone

Providing Arizona's governor with an armed force that operates separately from the National Guard -- and thus from federal control - - is vital to the state's continuing defense, some Republican lawmakers insist. Rep. Jack Harper, R-Surprise, and Sen. Sylvia Allen, R- Snowflake, are sponsoring HB2070 and SB1495, respectively, identical bills that would allow for a defense force called the Arizona State Guard.

• Arizona Capitol Times
• March 14, 2011

• Guard Leaders Hail Senate's Passage of Leahy-Graham Amendment to Give the National Guard a Seat On the Joint Chiefs of Staff

WASHINGTON, Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Senate has approved legislation by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to give the National Guard its first seat on the nation's highest military council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The bill, which has 71 Senate cosponsors, was added by voice vote Monday night as an amendment to the annual Defense Authorization Bill. Leahy and Graham are the co-chairs of the Senate's 84-member National Guard Caucus. Their National Guard Empowerment and State- National Defense Integration Act (S.1025) - also known as "Guard Empowerment II" -- is the latest in a series of successful efforts led by the Guard Caucus over the last six years to give the Guard a more meaningful voice in Pentagon circles where key policy...

• U.S. Newswire
• November 29, 2011

• Army National Guard Pvt. Erin C. Kuhlmeier Graduated [Derived Headline]

Army National Guard Pvt. Erin C. Kuhlmeier graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. Kuhlmeier is the daughter of Carole Kuhlmeier of Milford and a 2002 graduate of Foran High School, Milford. A--The following members of the Army Reserve's 395th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, New Haven, are returning from Iraq:

• New Haven Register
• May 15, 2010

• Elkin Begins Stint with National Guard

Boone County Commissioner Skip Elkin has started a temporary assignment with the Missouri Army National Guard that will require him to be away from the Boone County Government Center for much of the next few months. Skip Elkin

• Columbia Daily Tribune
• December 03, 2011

• National Guard

Peterson Air Force Base's U.S. Northern Command kicked off a weeklong training exercise Tuesday that includes events in Colorado Springs, the Florida Keys, Washington, D.C., and Arizona. Operation Vigilant Shield is the biggest training exercise of the year for the command and focuses on countering terrorist threats. Air Force, Army and Navy forces will join to combat simulated enemy attacks. The command ordered 300 troops to Florida for the event and another 20 were sent to Arizona.

• Gazette, The; Colorado Springs, Colo.
• November 01, 2011

• Executive Session: Rising Above Statistics, Rita Aragon, Major General in Oklahoma Air National Guard

When Rita Aragon retired (again) recently, some invitees may have done a double take at her invitation: "Come say goodbye to a hairy- legged girl from Dale, Oklahoma." But Aragon, who rose from single mother to schoolteacher to major general in the Oklahoma Air National Guard, is proud of her humble roots and the foundation she received growing up in the tiny community of Dale. I was very country," said Aragon, 61.

• The Journal Record
• September 15, 2009