NCNGA Weekly Guardsman for March 28th, 2019

Posted on: March 27, 2019 March 27, 2019
Author: ncngaweekly

March 28th, 2019

IN THIS EDITION:

Have you seen our re-designed website? NCNGA
Seeking Employment and Live in Rocky Mount? NCNGA
Help Wanted! NCNGA Looking for Part-Time Editor Volunteer NCNGA
Vietnam War Era Veteran’s Day Event at JFHQ NCARNG
Career Support: North Carolina National Guard and Patriots Path NCNGA
2019 EANGUS Scholarship Opportunities EANGUS
Where are all those running loggies and their friends? NCNGA
The Minuteman Muster 5K & 8K NCNGA
Hindsight is 20/20 Career Pathways Institute
NCNG: Mentors turning negatives into positives at Tarheel ChalleNGe DVIDS
74 Years Later, North Carolina Marines Remember Iwo Jima Military.com
Helicopter battalion returns to NC following year-long Afghanistan deployment ABC11
Army captain Jacob Enke wins 6th annual All American Marathon Fayetteville Observer
Get 20% off a Treetop Adventure GoApe, courtesy of the NCNG! NCNG
March 28th — Today in Guard History National Guard

Have you seen our re-designed website? NCNGA

Check it out! Within the next few weeks you will be able to join and update your membership information on our website! www.ncnga.org

Seeking Employment and Live in Rocky Mount? NCNGA

More than 30 Electricians are needed in building automated distribution technology warehouses. Good pay, great experience in an exploding industry.

Help Wanted! NCNGA Looking for Part-Time Editor Volunteer NCNGA

The Association is looking for a volunteer for about six hours a month. The Association is seeking a part-time editor to work on the Tarheel Guardsman. If you or someone you know is experienced in InDesign or similar software, please contact Katie at 919-851-3390, extension 2 or by email: Katie@ncnga.org.

Vietnam War Era Veteran’s Day Event at JFHQ NCARNG

Criteria: served on Active Duty between the dates on 1 Nov 1955 to 15 May 1975, in any branch any location, long as it was Active duty.

See the below flyer for details and R.S.V.P. to Andy Jackson at Andrew.l.jackson8.ctr@mail.mil

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 Guard. 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.

2019 EANGUS Scholarship Opportunities EANGUS

Unlike past years, we have created a single application form that will guide you through which scholarships you wish to apply for. Some universities have their own application form/process. Below are the details of each scholarship along with the requirements. If at anytime you have questions, please contact scholarship@eangus.org and someone will respond to your inquiry or request for assistance.

Register for the Inaugural 113th Special Troops Battalion 5K Fun Run/Walk to be held at Jamestown Park on the 7th of April. Walk or run for fun! Event proceeds will go to help fund the 4th Annual 113th Sustainment Brigade’s Logistics Ball. All participants will receive a t-shirt, racing bib, and the fastest male and female will receive a medal. There will be food and drinks available on site (cash only). Full details and registration can be found here!

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 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.

Hindsight is 20/20 DVIDS

Hindsight is 20/20. North Carolina National Guard members are eligible for up to $2000 per year for tuition assistance (TA) funding in career and professional development courses. Use yours now for a successful 2020. Choose your course at http://bit.ly/NCNG2019Catalog.

This month’s featured course is Medical Assistant Career Prep. Medical Assisting is one of the fastest growing careers in the health care industry today. In this course you will learn medical terminology, patient confidentiality, scheduling, customer service, basic patient documentation, and basic billing as well as other administrative duties required by front office personnel.

NCNG: Mentors turning negatives into positives at Tarheel ChalleNGe DVIDS

NEW LONDON, N.C. – Parents, mentors and family gathered at the Stanley County Agri-Civic Center in Albemarle, North Carolina to celebrate the graduates of class 51 during a ceremony marking the completion of the life-correcting Tarheel Challenge Academy.

TCA is designed to provide at-risk teens with a second chance to turn their lives around and is a quasi-military program that instills discipline, structure, and values similar to what soldiers experience during basic training.

“I feel extremely happy to be able to share this day with you graduating from the academy,” said Rep. Wayne Sasser, of N.C. House District 67. “I’ll be honest with you, I’m not sure if I could have went through what you have endured, learned, changed your ways and succeeded, but it paid off. Thanks for your perseverance, dedication and you need to take this day and enjoy it. Be happy as we all celebrate what you have accomplished.”

The TCA full-time staff, retired service members, commandant and director all contribute to the success of the program. Also heavily involved with the cadets’ resident course, are the mentors. In addition to providing guidance during the resident phase, mentors help graduates complete a year-long follow up to continue their education, start a full-time job or even join the military.

Mack Drake can remember a few life-or-death moments in his 93 years.

The first came when he was a kid, swimming across a Henderson County lake. He says he struggled to stay above water, but someone in a boat paddled by and offered him a ride.

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Drake would have other life-or-death moments soon enough. At just 19, he’d be as far from childhood and North Carolina as imaginable. He’d be a U.S. Marine, fighting his way through the Pacific theater of World War II.

Drake and Joe Tedder share that distinction. Both men, who now call Gastonia home, even shared the same battlefield during the war.

They survived what Drake calls “a hellhole” — the Battle for Iwo Jima.

For more than a month, from Feb. 19 to March 26, 1944, U.S. Marines fought to take the tiny island from Japanese forces — an effort to stop enemy fighter planes taking off from Iwo Jima from intercepting American bombers.

RALEIGH (WTVD) — Apache helicopters with the North Carolina Army National Guard began arriving at RDU International Airport Saturday after a year-long deployment in Afghanistan.

Nearly two weeks ago, over 280 members of the the North Carolina Army National Guard’s 1-130th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, comprised of soldiers, aviators, and maintainers, arrived home to the National Guard flight facility.

Following their arrival, the Apaches were shipped to the Port of Wilmington and then flown back to their headquarters at RDU.

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Army captain Jacob Enke wins 6th annual All American Marathon Fayetteville Observer

Enke finished in 2:40.45. Maj. Sara Day was the top female marathon finisher for the second time.

Jacob Enke, the newest addition to the list of All American Marathon winners, put in miles and miles of training leading up to Sunday’s 6th annual race.

He still found the rolling course, which charts 26.2 miles from downtown Fayetteville to Fort Bragg’s Main Post Parade Field, a bit more of a challenge than he’d anticipated.

“This is a hilly course, isn’t it?” Enke said. “I wasn’t really ready for this. It’s difficult, so everyone out here finishing is doing a great job.”

Enke’s official time of 2:40.45, at a 6:09-per-mile pace, led a field of more than 700 marathon runners. All told, 3,815 participants ran across the marathon and its current sister race, the Mike to Mike Half Marathon and the All American 5k.

Racers faced near-ideal weather conditions, with start-time temps in the upper 30s, no wind and sunshine prevailing through wispy clouds.

Enke, a 30-year-old Army captain with 8th Psychological Operations Battalion, is a native of Ohio who ran cross country as a college student at Columbia University.

This was his fifth marathon and his first time running the All American, a race he wanted to tackle upon redeployment.

“I got back from deployment, and the timing was right, so it was like, let’s do this,” Enke said. “I’m really proud of all the service members out here, and it makes me really proud to serve for this country.”

Sara Day, a 39-year-old major with the North Carolina National Guard, was the top female finisher in the marathon. She was also the top woman in the 2017 race but missed last year’s race while away at school.

1969 Phan Rang, Vietnam – The F-100 Super Sabre jet fighter-bomber flown by Major Clyde Seiler of Colorado’s 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron was shot down by enemy ground fire while he was conducting a strafing mission in support of American forces. He died in the crash, becoming the first of two pilots from the squadron killed in action during its Vietnam deployment. Just two months earlier he had set the squadron record of flying its 5,000th combat sortie (mission) since the unit arrived in May 1968.

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