Dec. 1, 2020

Michigan National Guard, Latvian Armed Forces reaffirm relationship during COVID-19 pandemic

Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 119th Field Artillery, Michigan National Guard mentor Latvian Army Soldiers on live fire procedures of M777 howitzer during exercise Summer Shield XIII held in Adazi, Latvia April 21. Soldiers of the 1-119th FA deploye...

Nov. 17, 2020

Michigan Guard Soldiers, Airmen Filling Vital Food Delivery Need

Michigan National Guard Soldiers with Michigan’s Task Force Spartan work with Gleaners of Warren, Michigan, Community Food Bank on Nov. 2, 2020. National Guard and Air National Guard members work weekly as a team in the Gleaners warehouse, assembling...

Nov. 13, 2020

Initial Planning Conference for Northern Strike 21 completed

The Michigan National Guard hosts the initial planning conference for Northern Strike 21-2 Nov. 3-5, at the National All-Domain Warfighting Center in Camp Grayling. NS 21-2 is scheduled for July 31 to Aug. 14 and the planners are anticipating more th...

Nov. 12, 2020

Michigan National Guard goes All-In on All-Domain training

Members of the 214th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron launch recovery element, from Tucson, Ariz., push an MQ-9 Reaper into a hangar at the Alpena CRTC during Northern Strike.......

Nov. 12, 2020

SecAF awards SANGB Pilot Distinguished Flying Cross

Major Brett DeVries reflects on the events that caused him to earn the Distinguished Flying Cross, presented to him by Secretary Barbara M. Barrett, the 25th Secretary of the Air Force, at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., Nov. 6, 2020. The...

Oct. 20, 2020

Q & A: Senior Airman Tanner Hostetler

Senior Airman Tanner Hostetler, 217th Air Component Operations Squadron intelligence analyst, poses for a photo during a Covid-19 testing event Oct. 15, 2020, at Mio, Mich. Hostetler has been working the Covid-19 testing mission since May. (U.S. Air ...

Oct. 8, 2020

Michigan National Guard performing coronavirus tests in the fall at Bay City

Airmen from the Michigan National Guard’s Task Force 182, were in Bay City performing free COVID-19 drive-thru tests at Delta College on October 3, 2020. It is important with the onset of cold and flu season to take any symptoms seriously. Because of...

Oct. 7, 2020

Michigan National Guard provides testing for MDOC

Spc. Nicholas Rittler, 126th Infantry Regiment medic, hands off a Covid sample during a Covid testing event to Private 1st. Class Silvester Hughes, a covid team administrative troop assigned to the 156th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, Sept. 23, 2020...

Oct. 5, 2020

Exercise Northern Strike planning continues year-round at Michigan’s National-All Domain Warfighting Center

Camp Grayling hosts a pre-deployment site survey, which more than 30 representatives from multiple services and states participated in, to demonstrate the base’s training capabilities. Maj. Quinn Rodgers, director of operations for the Camp Grayling,...

Sept. 30, 2020

Best Warrior Competition adds Army Combat Fitness Test to list of events

Michigan Army National Guard Specialist Tyler Royston, Headquarters & Headquarters Battalion, Battery B, 1-119th Field Artillery Regiment, performs the Deadlift during the Army Combat Fitness Test (ACFT) at the Marseilles Military Training Center...