April 11th, 2019

 

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NCNG Survivor’s Outreach Fund Conducts Annual Survivors’ Outreach Event NCNGSOF 
Join NGAUS and EANGUS! Your membership in our national level partner association is critical.
Have you seen our re-designed website? NCNGA
1st Annual American Legion Post 116 “Vets Helping Vets” Charity Golf Tournament, supporting Fisher House Foundation NCNGA
Career Support: North Carolina National Guard and Patriots Path NCNGA
Announcing Registration for the 4th Annual Sustainment Ball on the 5th of October in Greensboro NCNGA
The Minuteman Muster 5K & 8K NCNGA 
Hindsight is 20/20 Career Pathways Institute 
How to Train Your Honor Guard DVIDS 
Teach Them How To Fish Citizen-Soldier 
Army Announces Unit Deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and Korea Military.com 
Get 20% off a Treetop Adventure GoApe, courtesy of the NCNG! NCNG 
April 11th — Today in Guard History National Guard 

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NCNG Survivor’s Outreach Fund Conducts Annual Survivors’ Outreach Event NCNGSOF 

On May 17-19, 2019 the NCNGSOF will host approximately 30 surviving families of North Carolina Army and Air Guardsmen who lost their lives while members of the NCNG for a special weekend. This annual event provides an important mechanism for families to connect, share, and heal due to the shared experience of losing a loved one during their time of service to this great state and nation. This year’s event will be held at the Marriott Hotel in downtown Raleigh and will consist of sensing sessions, a discussion panel, and a buffet dinner with guest speaker First Lieutenant Patrick C. “Clebe” McClary III, USMC (Retired). On Sunday, the signature Memorial Service will be conducted where the service member’s sacrifice will be recognized and honored. If you would like to participate or donate to make this an extra special event, visit the website at www.NCNGSOF.org and click select ‘Donate’ or ‘Get Involved’. NCNGSOF, Inc. is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization with the mission to provide support, information and services to North Carolina National Guard Survivor family members.

 

 

 

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

1st Annual American Legion Post 116 “Vets Helping Vets” Charity Golf Tournament, supporting Fisher House Foundation NCNGA 

Join us as we raise funds to help support the FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION to take care of our service members and their families. Our 1 st annual charity golf tournament will be held on MAY 24 th , 2019 (Friday). The 18-hole tournament will take place at EAGLE RIDGE GOLF CLUB. We will have some great prizes on the course for you to win. Come join us for a day of golf to remember with your friends and show your support for our military heroes! This tournament is sure to be a sell-out, so don’t forget to sign your team up early!

 

 

 

 

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.

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.

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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.

How to Train Your Honor Guard DVIDS 

As March sprung into April, a select group of Airmen from the North
Carolina Air National Guard transformed into the newest members of the 145th Airlift Wing’s Air Force Honor Guard; a group of military professionals that represent Airmen to the American public and the world, while maintaining a high standard, flawless image, and preserve the heritage of our nation’s military.

For two weeks, fourteen volunteers from around the 145th Airlift Wing trained with traveling instructors from the United States Air Force Honor Guard Training Flight based out of Washington D.C.

“It feels wonderful to see the amount of people that actually volunteered to be here,” said Senior Airman Portia Short, a Ceremonial Guardsman and training instructor with the United States Air Force Honor Guard Training Flight. “We taught them basic standing manuals for drill and ceremony, customs and courtesies, and it was like a condensed course for them.”

One of the most common functions of the Honor Guard is rendering the flag during military ceremonies such as high ranking retirements or promotions. They also possess a sacred mission of body bearing during joint service and state funerals, in which they transport the remains of deceased service
members, and senior or national leaders to their final resting places.

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Teach Them How To Fish Citizen-Soldier 

North Carolina Army National Guard cyber warriors traveled to Chisinau, Moldova, in July of 2018 to help members of the Moldovan National Army train in cyber defense operations.

“What we’re doing is teaching them how to fish,” said CW4 Donald Champion, senior information systems officer of the North Carolina Army National Guard’s Joint Force Headquarters (JFHQ) as he described the goals of the joint-training initiative.

The nation of Moldova has had more than its share of cyberattacks. With Russia—a country notorious for its use of aggressive cyber warfare—as its neighbor, the tiny nation is under constant threat of attack.

“Just looking at their position, with them being near Russia, they are right in the heart of a large, large cyber threat,” CW4 Champion explained. “So, they are mostly concerned with the government-side threats, but then the business [threats] as well.”

The young nation of Moldova, with a gross domestic product of only $8 billion and a total population of only 3.5 million people, has limited resources to address the problem. Enter the North Carolina Army National Guard. North Carolina is State partners with the nation of Moldova through the National Guard’s State Partnership Program (SPP). The two groups have been partners since 1996, just five years after the country became an independent republic following the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. The North Carolina National Guard has been running this current series of cyber training for the last three years. The July 2018 training was the fourth in a series of trips undertaken by North Carolina Soldiers to help their Eastern European partner stand up a capable cyber defense force.

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Army Announces Unit Deployments to Afghanistan, Iraq and Korea Military.com 

U.S. Army brigade combat teams will deploy this summer to Afghanistan, Iraq and Korea to participate in ongoing rotations, according to recent Army announcements.

The 82nd Airborne Division’s 3rd Brigade Combat Team, stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, will deploy to Afghanistan to replace 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel, a March 29 news release states.

“Our great paratroopers are honored to answer our nation’s call to deploy overseas,” Col. Art Sellers, commander of the 3rd BCT, said in the release. “We stand eager and ready to work alongside our Afghan and coalition partners toward mission success in support of Operation Freedom’s Sentinel.”

The Army will deploy the 1st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infantry Division, out of Fort Wainwright, Alaska, to replace the 101st Airborne Division’s 1st Brigade Combat Team in support of Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq, according to another news release.

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Get 20% off a Treetop Adventure GoApe, courtesy of the NCNG! NCNG 

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TREETOP JUNIOR (SELECT LOCATIONS) – Perfect for new adventurers of all ages, Go Ape Treetop Junior offers a 1-hour exhilarating outdoor adventure experience. Tackle elevated multi-action obstacles in the trees and close it out with an epic zip line. Supervision and other restrictions apply. Check out our website for locations with Treetop Juniors. LEARN MORE AT GOAPE.COM

Visit GOAPE.COM for the most up-to-date information on locations, pricing, height, weight, age and supervision requirements.

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April 11th — Today in Guard History National Guard 

1942 Sterparone Airfield, Italy – Flight crews of the 840th Bombardment Squadron begin their first combat missions flying B-17 Flying Fortress bombers in support of the Allied armies fighting in Europe. This squadron, formerly the 128th Observation Squadron, Georgia National Guard, was activated in May 1941 and spent two years flying antisubmarine patrols along the U.S. Gulf Coast before being re-equipped and retrained on B-17’s. Once it enters combat the squadron, assigned to the 483rd Bombardment Group, bombs targets such as oil refineries, marshalling yards, airfields, bridges, gun emplacements and troop concentrations. During its time in combat it flew missions over Italy, France, Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia and Greece. In all the squadron earned 12 campaign streamers and two Distinguished (today known as Presidential) Unit Citations. Today the lineage of the 128th/840th is carried by Georgia’s 128th Air Control Squadron, flying Boeing E-8C Joint Stars aircraft as part of a “Blended Wing” of Air Guard and active Air Force allowing the Air Force to monitor ground operations and direct air strike missions in support of the Army.

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