NCNGA Weekly Guardsman for January 31, 2019

Posted on: January 30, 2019 January 30, 2019
Author: ncngaweekly

January 31, 2019

IN THIS EDITION:

Career Support: North Carolina National Guard and Patriots Path NCNGA
Educational Foundation Now Accepting Scholarship Applications NCNGA
Military One Source Consultants Offer Local Support NCNGA
Member Showcase for NCNGA Annual Convention NCNGA
58th Annual NCNGA Convention and NCNG Combined Ball Registration NOW OPEN! NCNGA
The Minuteman Muster 5K & 8K NCNGA
North Carolina National Guard Legal Assistance Program Tax Center Opening Soon! NCNGA
North Carolina National Guard Fit To Serve DVIDS
Snow pounds Midwest as region braces for coldest temperatures in decades Yahoo
Local vet awarded posthumous Purple Heart Mt Airy News
Brigade withstands training crucible, gears up for rotation Army.mil
Get 20% off a Treetop Adventure GoApe, courtesy of the NCNG! NCNG
January 31st – Today in Guard History National Guard

Career Support: North Carolina National Guard and Patriots Path NCNGA

Are you or your spouse in transition from the military, seeking meaningful employment or thinking about a new career? The North Carolina National Guard Association (NCNGA) can help. In an effort to improve career opportunities for its members the NCNGA is looking for 8-10 Soldiers, Airmen, or Spouses to participate in a five part career support course conducted by Patriots Path. In this course you will define new career goals, map out job search strategies, identify opportunities, create personal marketing approaches and connect within the community to peers, mentors and coaches for continued networking and support. Each of the five in-classroom, interactive workshops are held in corporate boardrooms or training facilities offering students added connectivity to employers who are committed to supporting the. In addition to the five group classes, student also participate in one-on-one breakout sessions with assigned mentors and coaches to cover more personalized resume writing, mock-interviews and job shadowing.

If you are interested in participating in this program please contact Larry Coleman at larry@ncnga.org or 984-664-0308. Possible Course Locations included the Triangle and Triad area and there is no cost to association members and spouses for this course.

Educational Foundation Now Accepting Scholarship Applications NCNGA

Each year, the Educational Foundation awards scholarships based on available funds. The scholarships range in value from $400 for Community College attendees, to $10,000 scholarship we award in partnership with the State Employees Credit Union. Most Community College scholarships are $400, while the typical four-year college recipient is awarded $1,000.

The Educational Foundation raises funds and accepts donations for several General Scholarships. In addition, the Educational Foundation awards a number of scholarships that honor and memorialize prior members of the National Guard and their families.

There are two applications: Regular and Academic Excellence, which are described below. Completed applications can be mailed to the office at: NCNGA Educational Foundation/ 7410 Chapel Hill Road/ Raleigh, NC 27607. Applications must be completed in full and include the required income information, school transcripts, etc.

Need to connect with financial, health, employment or other services in your local community? Military OneSource’s state consultants bring help directly to you, offering outreach services to support members of the military community when and where they need it most. While many Military OneSource services are easily accessed with just a phone call or a click, state consultants can help if you need more in-depth information or support in your own backyard. To learn more visit Military OneSource.

Are you or do you know a currently serving Guard Soldier or Airmen that is making a significant contribution to their community? The Association is looking for 4-7 individuals to be part of a “Member Showcase” during our Annual Convention in March. Areas of impact could be public service (such as an elected official), volunteerism, heroism, business owner/executive and government service non-elected. If you would like to nominate an individual, please contact Larry Coleman at 984-664-0308 or via email at Larry@ncnga.org.

58th Annual NCNGA Convention and NCNG Combined Ball Registration NOW OPEN! NCNGA

Our North Carolina National Guard Association and Convention Committee are proud to announce that this year’s 58th Annual Convention will be hosted at the Hilton Raleigh North Hills in Raleigh, NC between March 16-17. This year we are collaborating with the NCNG and hosting the Combined Event/Ball. We encourage you to book early to reserve your room. Again, this year we will host our Membership Session on a Saturday and Sunday timeframe to minimize conflicts with those on a typical Monday-Friday work schedule and maximize attendance. We are currently wrapping up items like our agenda, entertainment and Convention theme. Once we have these locked in, we will post it on our Facebook page, Weekly Guardsman online newsletter, and on our website. You can sign-up for these resources on our homepage. We appreciate your support and encourage you to take full advantage of our Early Bird prices.

The Minuteman Muster 5K & 8K NCNGA

The Minuteman Muster 5K & 8K is part of an open house event at the NC National Guard Military Center (near the NC Fairgrounds). The event includes includes USATF Certified 5K & 8K Races, a National Guard & Emergency Services open house, and fun activities for everyone. Presented by Celito.net Take the Challenge and run BOTH the 5K & 8K races. This year teams of 4 high school runners can compete in the 5K for FREE!

Runners and spectators will enjoy an open house featuring military, emergency management, and law enforcement equipment displays, a rock climbing wall, and other fun activities.

Enjoy the premium race experience provided by Precision Race with state of the art Jaguar timing, real-time race results, and automated finish line photography. The Minuteman Muster 5K & 8K races are part of the Triangle Race Series.

This year the registration price is lower than ever, but the race shirt is available as a $15 option. It will be the same design and type running shirt, but a different color.

North Carolina National Guard Legal Assistance Program Tax Center Opening Soon! NCNGA

The North Carolina National Guard Legal Assistance Program is a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) certified tax preparation site. They can prepare state and federal income tax returns for Soldiers, Retirees, and Family Members.

The Tax Center will open on 21 JAN 19 and close on 15 APR 19. They will start taking appointments on 7 JAN 19.

All clients must have a valid military ID and social security cards with them for every person claimed on the tax returns. There have been a lot of changes to the tax code, and they will be happy to prepare taxes both with the increased standard deduction or with itemized deductions to see which is more beneficial for each client.

Twenty-two Soldiers from the North Carolina National Guard are volunteering to participate in Fit to Serve, a six-month program that supports overall health and wellness by providing nutrition training, resiliency training and teaching a movement restoration system, at the Camp Butner Training Center in Butner, North Carolina on January 24, 2019.

According to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey conducted from 2015 to 2016, 71.6% of Americans over the age of 20 are overweight. The North Carolina National Guard Operations and Training Office set out to find a way to work with personnel struggling with health and wellness.

“Our program is a total mind and body approach to wellness,” said Sgt. Maj. Jason Stewart, Operations and Training Resource Manager, who is part of the team that created the Fit to Serve program. “It begins with a one-week in-resident phase where we teach nutrition, resiliency and functional movement, then our participants are placed in small groups where they work with one of our fitness coaches over a six-month period.”

The Fit to Serve program has contracted with the Original Strength Institute to teach basic body movements, flexibility and breathing techniques that have been found to be effective in helping people lose weight, increase range of motion and reach individual potential.

A snowstorm is pounding the Midwest Monday as the Midwest and Northeast brace for brutally cold temperatures this week.

The Midwest may see its coldest air since the mid-1990s early Wednesday.

In Minnesota, wind chills could be as low as minus 35 degrees Monday night and as low as minus 65 degrees Tuesday into Thursday morning, the National Weather Service warned.

More than 50 years after his death, a Surry County soldier who was wounded in action during World War I has been officially recognized by the U.S. government for that contribution.

This occurred Friday at a heavily attended program in Mount Airy during which the Purple Heart was presented to the daughter of Pvt. John William Gilley as a number of other family members watched.

U.S. Rep. Virginia Foxx, who represents Surry County, handed out the award at the front of a room in Mount Airy Museum of Regional History also populated by veterans, state and local officials, law enforcement personnel and patriotic-minded citizens.

Pvt. Gilley was shot in France in October 1918 while serving with the Army’s 118th Infantry, 30th Division.

He survived what was then known as the Great War and after being honorably discharged, returned home to Surry County, where he and his wife, Ida Rosella Brinkley Gilley, lived in the Westfield community and raised eight children.

As the 2nd Security Force Assistance Brigade (SFAB) goes through its paces at the crucible known as the Joint Readiness Training Center (JRTC) at Fort Polk, the goal is to prepare Soldiers to handle situations that might – or will – arise during their deployment to Afghanistan later this year.

The SFAB are specialized units with the core mission to conduct training, advising, assisting, enabling and accompanying operations with allied and partner nations.

The 1st SFAB recently redeployed from Afghanistan, to be replaced by the 2nd SFAB.

Lt. Col. Javier Lopez, commander, 353rd Infantry Regiment, commands many of the trainers who have worked to prep the advisors and security forces – Guardian Angels – for their mission to provide assistance and guidance to their counterparts in the Afghan National Army.

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January 31st, 1942 – Londonarry, Northern Ireland, Great Britain – the 34th Infantry Division (IA, MN, ND, SD) arrives here as the first American ground combat unit deployed to the European Theater during World War II. In November 1942 it will take part in the invasion of French North Africa and in September 1943 it will land in Italy to fight the Germans all the way up the “boot” into the Po River Valley by wars’ end.

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