Michigan’s Selfridge Air National Guard Base will become the home of 21 F-15EX Eagle II multirole fighters, a move that will enable the base to retain a fighter mission after the looming retirement of its A-10 attack planes.
Army National Guardsmen and Air National Guardsmen from as far as New York and Alaska deployed to the southeastern U.S. in recent days in response to Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton.
The Senate on Sept. 24 quietly approved Air Force Lt. Gen. Steven S. Nordhaus to lead the National Guard, filling a vacancy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff that has persisted for nearly two months. Still in limbo is Maj. Gen. Duke Pirak, the Air ...
A bipartisan trio of senators urged the likely next National Guard boss on Sept. 12 to hold off on proposed staff cuts to Air National Guard bases in their states, arguing their missions should shield them from top-down attempts to downsize.
After nearly 40 years of service, the last four of which were spent as Chief of the National Guard Bureau, Army Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson will retire and relinquish command in a ceremony at Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, Va. on Aug. 2 with one key ...
The head of the National Guard warned that a shortage of fighter jets, pilots, and maintainers in the reserve component could leave the military short-handed in a possible conflict.
Governors from nearly every U.S. state and territory signed a letter sent to Defense Secretary Lloyd J. Austin III on April 29, asking him to withdraw an Air Force proposal to transfer Air National Guard units to the Space Force. While the letter does not endorse ...
National Guard officials and state governors are arguing against removing space missions from the Guard, challenging a key element of the Department of the Air Force’s plan on how to staff its space missions.
Thirty years ago, the National Guard Bureau established its State Partnership Program (SPP) by pairing 13 former Soviet bloc countries with state National Guards to bolster training and cooperation. Today, more than 100 countries around the globe are in the program, with 88 active partnerships. ...
The push to create a new Space National Guard got a major boost last week as a bipartisan team of Senators offered new legislation—even as the Pentagon works to craft details on a competing plan. Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) introduced the Space ...
An Air Force C-37 carrying Chief of the National Guard Bureau Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson was forced to land after striking birds as it departed from Chicago Midway International Airport, the Air Force and National Guard Bureau said. A video from a streaming website showed ...
Department of the Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall delivered a keynote address on "One Team, One Fight, One Year Later" at AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference. Watch the video or read the transcript.