NCNGA Weekly Guardsman for July 27, 2017

July 27, 2017

 

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Cooper signs bills protecting National Guard members ABC11 

Gov. Roy Cooper signed three bills into law Friday morning in front of members of the North Carolina National Guard. Read More…

Founding Campbell Law Dean, NC National Guard Officer, Davis passes Campbell University News 

It is with a very heavy heart that we share the passing of our founding dean, F. Leary Davis, Jr., on Thursday, July 20. He served as dean of Campbell Law in Buies Creek from 1975-86. Davis was 75 years old. His funeral is set for this Saturday, July, 22 at 4 p.m. at Zebulon Baptist Church in nearby Zebulon. Read More…

NCNG Field Artillery Soldiers travel to Romania for Saber Guardian DVIDS 

NATO Allies and partners raised their Nation’s flags during the official opening ceremony for the multinational training exercise Saber Guardian at the Joint National Training Center, in Cincu, Romania, July 7, 2107. The North Carolina National Guard’s 5th Battalion, 113th Field Artillery Regiment was one of the units rendering their salute to Romanian Army Brig. Gen. Gheorghe Visan, 2nd Infantry Division Commander, marking the official start of Saber Guardian. Read More…

N.C. teens put their heads in the clouds, hearts into service The Stanly News & Press 

It was a nearly perfect day for flying, a few low-hanging clouds on the horizon, everything else a perfect blue. “It’ll be my first time up,” 13-year-old Larra Hoelscher said as she stood on the runway at Stanly County Airport about to climb into a plane with instructor Robert Rimmer. It wasn’t the only time a teen from the “First in Flight” state got to take their first flight at the Stanly County Airport, either. This past week, about 170 aspiring Civil Air Patrol cadets from across North Carolina stayed at the airport as part of the CAP’s annual Encampment — a weeklong military-style camp for ages 12 to 21 who want to learn to fly. Read More…

Hiring Event for NC State NCNGA 

If you are a military service member, a Veteran, spouse, or dependent of a service member interested in networking or looking for a career opportunity, please save the date of Aug. 23! The 2017 Raleigh Hiring Event from 9 a.m.-4 p.m. at the NC State Witherspoon Center features employers from Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill and the surrounding areas. Register for the 2017 Raleigh Hiring Event and our services by calling 984) 664-6463 or visiting the websites listed in the attached flyer. Read More…

Trump to nominate Fayetteville native for high-ranking defense position Fayetteville Observer 

President Donald Trump will nominate a Fayetteville-native to serve as one of the highest-ranking civilians in the nation’s military. If confirmed, Robert Wilkie will be Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, according to the White House. Wilkie is currently senior advisor to Sen. Thom Tillis. He was also an assistant secretary of defense under Donald Rumsfield and Bob Gates and senior director of the National Security Council under Condoleezza Rice during the George W. Bush administration and worked as counsel for the late Sen. Jesse Helms and as counsel and advisor for former Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott. Read More…

July —Today in Guard History National Guard 

1944 – Normandy, France – As large numbers of German soldiers are killed or surrender and their armored equipment is destroyed by constant air attack Operation COBRA, the planned Allied breakout from Normandy, continues. This operation, which was supposed to start with a massive aerial bombardment of the German defensive lines along the Vire River on July 24th led instead to one of the worst incidents of “friendly fire” during World War II. Due to poor visibility the bomber strike was called off; however, some of the squadrons did not get the word and dropped their loads on top of North Carolina’s 120th Infantry, an element of the 30th Infantry Division composed of Guard units North and South Carolina and Tennessee. Because word of the cancelled attack had also not reached the frontline soldiers the Guardsmen of the 120th instead of being ‘dug in’ were exposed waiting for the word to advance. More than 150 men were killed or wounded in this mistake. Cobra started the next day, again with some Americans being stuck by our own bombs, but with more hitting the enemy. The 30th Division and other American units punched through the Nazis lines and by early August the Allied armies would break out of Normandy completely, liberating Paris on August 25th. Read More…

Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic opens in Fayetteville ABC11 

The Steven A. Cohen Military Family Clinic didn’t wait for its grand opening to get busy. “The clinic is already seeing patients,” said John Bigger, director of behavioral health at Cape Fear Valley Medical Center. “We’re up and running.” The official open house for the general public took place Tuesday with community and state officials joining Anthony Hassan, the Cohen Veterans Network CEO, for a ribbon cutting. The ceremony marked the opening of the first Cohen Clinic in North Carolina and the sixth nationally. It’s also the first clinic to be opened in a city with fewer than a million people. The others are in New York, San Antonio, Dallas, Los Angeles and Philadelphia. Read More…

NC Guardsman bridges the communication gap in Romania DVIDS 

Exercise Saber Guardian 17 was a U.S. European Command training event that took place in July, in Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria and involved more than 25,000 service members from over 20 allied and partner nations. The middle of a large exercise like this is not the time or place to have miscommunication issues. It is a time when all military personnel need to be on the same page. Read More…

Supporting early college pays off well RR Daily Herald 

News of renovating the former N.C. National Guard armory on Harrison Street was good to hear. The armory has been used for Roanoke Rapids High School’s JROTC program, sporting events and ancillary education activities. To retool classrooms is not just a positive move, but it’s a best use for the historic building, along with it saving taxpayers about $1 million over new construction for the Roanoke Rapids Graded School District’s Early College program. Read More…

2 Marines Killed in Plane Crash Make Last Trips Home Associated Press via U.S. News 

Two Marines killed in a military plane crash in Mississippi were making their last trips home Monday. The body of 41-year-old Marine Maj. Caine Goyette, the plane’s pilot, was taken to a funeral home near Albany, New York, while a motorcade of veterans and motorcycle clubs escorted the remains of 20-year-old Cpl. Dan Baldassare to Freehold, New Jersey. Read More…

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