Vidor, Texas—Air National Guardsmen from Alaska’s Chugach Mountains and the heart of California’s Silicon Valley spent last week in the flooded cities of Southeast Texas, with one mission—to save lives. Aircrews, combat rescue officers, pararescuemen and support personnel from the Alaska Air National Guard’s 176th Wing and members of the California Air National Guard’s […]
ARLINGTON, Va. — With a 5,600-acre wildfire burning in Butte County, California National Guard members are mobilized Monday after California Gov. Jerry Brown’s declaration of an emergency yesterday. As of this morning, nearly 85 National Guard members were involved in firefighting operations in Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming, National Guard Bureau officials said. Because California Guard members are in the process […]
Sixteen military personnel died in the crash of a KC-123T that went down in western Mississippi while on a training flight on Monday. The aircraft, which can be used to move troops as well as conduct mid-air refueling, was moving equipment, fifteen Marines, and a Navy Corpsman from Cherry Point, North Carolina to California when […]
A Sunday mid-morning vehicle collision injured poor and totaled both vehicles on the parks Highway, the trooper dispatch revealed. Troopers and State Park Rangers responded to the scene at mile 129 of the Parks Highway at 11:36 AM after responding to report of a two-vehicle collision at that location. Upon arrival, they found all four […]