September 29, 2016

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Visit NCNGA at Air Guard Retiree Breakfast NCNGA  

Come visit us at the Air Guard Retiree Breakfast tomorrow at the Air Guard base in Charlotte. NCNGA staff will be there to review your life insurance policy and make additions or changes. We will also have our popular NCNGA merchandise for sale as well. Be sure to swing by and say hello. Read More…

International MPs find common language with police procedures  U.S. Army Europe via DVIDS 

Although they are geographically an ocean away from one other, military police from the U.S. Army National Guard, Slovenia and Albania found that they had much in common while conducting synchronized training during Immediate Response 16. “We’ve been able to work seamlessly and integrate in with the Slovenian Army,” Capt. Christopher Breyrle, company commander for the 220th Military Police Co., 89th Troop Command, 193rd MP Battalion, Colorado National Guard. “Our tactics and procedures are very similar.” Read More…

NCNG: Hanging up the green suit  North Carolina National Guard via DVIDS 

Future North Carolina National Guard retirees gathered to attend the inaugural final formation retirement seminar hosted at the 139th Regional Training Institute. The seminar educates retirees, who have 18 months or less before retiring, about critical resources available to them. This is also an opportunity for Guard members to show their appreciation and thanks for retirees’ years of service. Read More…

Spreading the peace among protests in North Carolina  BBC News 

Demonstrators and police have hugged and shaken hands with members of the US National Guard during protests in Charlotte, North Carolina, while scenes of goodwill in the city have spread through social media. Among many who have attempted to keep the demonstrations peaceful have been two people on either side of the protest line. Read More…

Government shutdown becoming a possibility  NGAUS  

With the possibility of a government shutdown at the end of the week, the NGAUS legislative staff expects Congress to pass some sort of bill to keep the government running, but there are still discrepancies that need to be worked out in the Senate. The Senate was scheduled to hold a key procedural vote on a proposal introduced by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. That measure would fund the federal government through Dec. 9. Read More…

Army’s new Apache scout squads add capability, but also complexity  IHS Jane’s Defence Weekly 

The US Army is to soon retire its last Bell Helicopter OH-58 Kiowa Warrior armed aerial scout squadron, which under the Aviation Restructure Initiative are being replaced with a “heavier” organization based on the Boeing AH-64 Apache attack helicopter. Apaches are to team with unmanned aerial systems for the scout role and bring some significant new capabilities, but are also more complex aircraft and are much slower to deploy. Read More…

NC Guard trains with Moldovan artillery and special forces soldiers  North Carolina National Guard via DVIDS 

North Carolina National Guard Soldiers of 1st Battalion, 113th Field Artillery (113th FAR) and 1st Battalion, 120th Infantry (120th INF) joined their Moldovan peers for live fire training at Exercise Fire Shield at Bulboaca Training Area Moldova as part of Multinational Exercise Fire Shield 2016 hosted by the Republic of Moldova. The soldiers fired Moldovan issue artillery and assault rifles. While it is fun training for the NCNG soldiers, it has a very practical mission for the Moldovan instructors earning valuable practice instructing other nation’s soldiers on their weapons systems and tactics. Read More…

US veterans build a greener future at home  Mic  

“Veterans aren’t sure of how things work on the outside of the military,” said Jon Powers, U.S. Army veteran and co-founder of solar energy investment platform CleanCapital, in a phone interview. “Many corporations aren’t sure of how things work on the inside of the military.” As a result, many veterans find themselves mismatched or in jobs that don’t draw on the skills they acquired on active duty. That’s what Powers is trying to change, and he’s optimistic that the burgeoning clean energy industry he works in is a particularly good fit for veterans with engineering and tech backgrounds. Read More…