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A Triumphant Descent

Maryland National Guard Soldier Takes Home Top Honor from International Competition

“It’s a tricky event,” said SFC Nicholas Pitz of the Maryland Army National Guard, Special Operations Detachment (SOD)-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO/OTAN)....

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Operation Hickory Sting

Intense Exportable Training

The mountainous desert terrain of Fort Bliss, Texas, set the scene of Operation Hickory Sting – a brigade-level exercise consisting of more than 4,000 National Guard Soldiers. The operation was...

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Maxing-Out the Pre-Mob

Arizona’s 1-158th Infantry Regiment Prepares to Join the Fight in the Middle East

Four hundred Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 158th Infantry Regiment “Bushmasters,” Arizona Army National Guard, spent 45 days this past summer...

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Down Home Training

Iowa Guard Unit Brings Pre-Mob Training Local

Soldiers from Indiana, Kentucky and Texas all converged on Camp Dodge in March of this year to support the Iowa Army National Guard’s 1034th Combat Sustainment...

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Lessons in Logistics

Utah Homeland Response Force Shows Value of Command and Control

“The HRF mission is critical given the increased danger that we have responding to domestic terror or disasters.”

Making this observation...