Alaska Guard, Reserve interoperability aid arctic mobilization proficiency

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Alaska Guard, Reserve interoperability aid arctic mobilization proficiency

JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska — Monotonous beeps reverberated across the Joint Mobility Complex as Soldiers arriving to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson were scanned in for Reception, Staging, Onward movement and Integration ahead of 11th Airborne Division’s Joint Pacific Multi-National Readiness Center-Alaska 23-02 exercise. The Alaska Army National Guard’s 49th Personnel Detachment (Theater Gateway) and U.S. Army […]

California Guard Deploys to Fight Wildfires; Colorado Guard Expands Firefighting Role

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California Guard Deploys to Fight Wildfires; Colorado Guard Expands Firefighting Role

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 […]