May 30th, 2019

 

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Registration is now open for the 141st General Conference & Exhibition NCNGA 
Career Support: North Carolina National Guard and Patriots Path NCNGA
“Old Hickory” Division Commemorative Monument to be erected in France on Battle Site NCNGA 
Remembering Tar Heels who helped win WWI Fayetteville Observer 
Guardsman recalls Hurricane Michael, urges coastal residents to prepare for new season of storms AirForceTimes 
Reserve & Active Airmen team up at Palmetto Challenge US Air Force 
Teens offered chance to turn lives around at Tarheel Challenge Academy The Robesonian 
Join NGAUS and EANGUS! Your membership in our national level partner association is critical.
1st Annual American Legion Post 116 “Vets Helping Vets” Charity Golf Tournament, supporting Fisher House Foundation NCNGA
Announcing Registration for the 4th Annual Sustainment Ball on the 5th of October in Greensboro NCNGA
Hindsight is 20/20 Career Pathways Institute 
May 23rd — Today in Guard History National Guard 

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NGUAS 2019 Conference Theme Announced: The National Guard: An American Treasure. NCNGA  

NGUAS 2019: Come see your state leadership as they compete with other General Officers for the longest mechanical bull ride. Join us in Denver for the 141st NGAUS Conference. This is going to be a great event that you will not want to miss.

Register today, and view the call to conference!

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Career Support: North Carolina National Guard and Patriots Path NCNGA 

Seats are still available for this great course, see the flyer for details and registration information

 

 

 

“Old Hickory” Division Commemorative Monument to be erected in France on Battle Site NCNGA 

World War One Centennial Commemorative Monument to be erected in France on actual battle site, September 29, 2019. No monument to this heroic action exists.

Dedicated to the North Carolinians of the 30th “Old Hickory” Division 60th Brigade American Expeditionary Force who broke the Hindenburg Line on 29 September 1918.

Remembering Tar Heels who helped win WWI Fayetteville Observer 

The bloodiest day in North Carolina history was July 2, 1863, when Tar Heel infantrymen joined Pickett’s Charge in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

The second bloodiest was Sept. 29, 1918, when Tar Heel National Guardsmen won World War I.

That’s a tall claim, but there are facts to back it up.

On that day, infantrymen of the “Tar Heel Brigade” of the 30th (“Old Hickory”) Division broke through the so-called “Hindenburg Line” at the St. Quentin Canal in northern France.

Advancing through fog, with newfangled jalopies called “tanks” beside them, the Tar Heel doughboys from the N.C. National Guard took the village of Bellicourt, securing the entrance to the strategic Bellicourt Tunnel and, at least briefly, entering the village of Nauroy. Losses were heavy as other Allied units trailed behind, and the Tar Heels were exposed to withering German fire on their flanks. But they held on.

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Guardsman recalls Hurricane Michael, urges coastal residents to prepare for new season of storms AirForceTimes 

Longtime Sarasota-area resident Chris Dillon is no stranger to hurricanes.

Riding out a direct hit from Hurricane Michael at Tyndall Air Force Base in October tested the nerve of the Air Force veteran, who is now a lieutenant colonel in the Florida Army National Guard. It also spurred him to double down on preparedness plans for his family.

The National Hurricane Center recently upgraded Michael’s status at landfall to a Category 5 storm, with 160-mph winds and a 14-foot storm surge. The hurricane caused $25 billion in damage, and killed 16 people.

Dillon has been in about nine hurricanes total, after growing up in Sarasota and serving since 1997 in the Florida Guard, responding during and after storms hit the peninsula. Usually, he and fellow Guardsmen are driving into the storms during landfall, positioning resources to help Floridians in the first days and weeks of the recovery process.

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Reserve & Active Airmen team up at Palmetto Challenge USAF 

POPE ARMY AIRFIELD, N.C. (AFNS) —
Reserve Airmen with the 315th Airlift Wing, along with their active duty counterparts assigned to the 437th AW and 628th Air Base Wing from Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina, participated in the Palmetto Challenge, May 21-23 at Pope Army Airfield.

Airmen trained on “real world” scenarios that could happen in a deployed environment when provided limited resources. For exercise purposes, there were two “deployed” locations, one at Pope AAF and the other at McEntire Joint National Guard Base, South Carolina.

Seven C-17 Globemaster IIIs were used during the exercise, six from JB Charleston and one from the 145th Airlift Wing, North Carolina Air National Guard Base.

“The intent is to access our joint base’s ability to execute our individual mission sets in a deployed environment without the established support we have at our home base,” said Capt. Samuel Weir, 437th Operational Support Squadron and one of the exercise organizers.

Reserve Airmen tasked for the multi-day event consisted of two aircrews, including pilots and loadmasters with the 315th AW, and members of the 315th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, the only aeromedical evacuation team participating in the exercise.

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Teens offered chance to turn lives around at Tarheel Challenge Academy The Robesonian 

LUMBERTON — Rita Ladner has one major goal in life: to challenge at-risk youth in the state to do the right thing.

She does this by encouraging them to enroll in the Tarheel Challenge Academy, a quasi-military style program for at-risk teens ages 16 to 18. The academy, which has been open for about 25 years, has two locations, one in Salemburg and one in New London. Participation in the academy is free of charge.

The purpose of the program is to provide qualified North Carolina dropouts, potential dropouts, and expellees an opportunity to learn in a safe, structured environment so the students they call “cadets” can become successful people for now and later.

Ladner focused her sights on Lumberton youth this week. She visited Lumberton Senior High School and area middle schools, and encouraged students to “accept the challenge.”

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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!

 

 

 

 

Hindsight is 20/20 Career Pathways Institute 

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 here.

This month’s featured course is Pharmacy Technician Career Prep. This program prepares students to be professional Pharmacy Technicians dedicated to assisting Registered Pharmacists in quality pharmacy operational procedures. Graduates are equipped to assist the Pharmacist filling prescriptions according to doctor’s orders. Pharmacy Technicians also participate in ordering products and inventory control, as well as billing and receiving payments. Trained graduates that pass this course, are eligible to sit for a national certification exam.

May 23rd — Today in Guard History National Guard 

1944 – Anzio Beachhead, Italy – Allied forces, including elements of three National Guard divisions; the 34th (IA, MN, ND), 36th (TX) and 45th (AZ, CO, OK) begin their final “push” to breakout of the besieged positions which have held them contained just south of Rome for four months. The original intent was to land behind the German “Gustav Line” (running across Italy about 100 miles south of Rome) and rush to capture Rome before the Germans could react. But poor leadership slowed down the advance and the enemy was able to seal the Allied forces on the beachhead. They shelled it constantly with heavy rail guns and bombed it from the air. Finally after four months and thousands of killed and wounded the Allies were finally able to make some headway by May 25th. The breakout will be completed on May 31st and on June 5th the Allies enter a liberated Rome. Unfortunately the achievements of these men and capture of Rome was overshadowed in the media by the D-Day invasion on June 6th.

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