NCNGA Weekly Guardsman for June 6, 2019
June 6th, 2019
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Registration is now open for the 141st General Conference & Exhibition NCNGA
Join NGAUS and EANGUS! Your membership in our national level partner association is critical.
The Soldiers and Airmen Fund-NC announced their 8th annual “Fairway to Honor” charity golf tournament will by played at Bentwinds Golf and Country Club NCNGA
Dale Beatty 2nd Annual Memorial Run NCNGA
30th Infantry Division 73rd Annual Reunion NCNGA
Announcing Registration for the 4th Annual Sustainment Ball on the 5th of October in Greensboro 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
North Carolina Guard commemorate the Battle of Mortain & D-Day WLOS
NC Guard Soldiers Rail Load Armor, Vehicles for National Training Center Deployment DVIDS
Hurricane Season Is upon Us, but Fear Not: The National Guard Is Ready National Interest
Hindsight is 20/20 Career Pathways Institute
June 6th — Today in Guard History National Guard
Registration is now open for the 141st General Conference & Exhibition 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!
The rate is $90.00 per person. This includes golf cart, 18 holes of golf, practice facility, range balls, beverages, lunch, magic ball putting contest, $5,000.00 individual putting contest, two mulligans and a raffle ticket for the $500.00 grand prize drawing, 3 par 3s – $5,000.00 hole-in-one on each one, longest drive and closest- to- the pin holes on all par 3’s. Cash awards for 1st and 2nd place teams.
See full details and registration…
Dale Beatty 2nd Annual Memorial Run NCNGA 
Are you ready to run?!?! Register today for the 2nd Annual Dale Beatty Memorial 5K & Fun Run!
Not a runner? You can sign up to walk or be a phantom runner.
30th Infantry Division 73rd Annual Reunion NCNGA
July 25-28th, Raleigh NC, Ramada Inn, Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh.
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.
North Carolina Guard commemorate the Battle of Mortain & D-Day WLOS
WLOS — Sunday, June 2, 2019, 20 North Carolina Army National Guard soldiers and three WWII veterans of the 30th Infantry Division “Old Hickory” are in France to commemorate the Battle of Mortain and D-Day.
The 30th was a National Guard unit comprised mostly of men from North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee. The division landed at Omaha Beach, in Normandy only a few days after D-Day and was immediately ordered into combat to defend key locations from the Nazi counterattack.
Mortain, France was one of those key locations, in Normandy.
In the book Old Hickory, by Robert Baumer, it states that in August 1944, Hitler hysterically issued his sternest order, “Strike through Mortain to seal off the Americans at Avranches!”
On August 7, four Nazi Panzer Divisions attacked the 30th Infantry Division, and for 6 days at Mortain, the Heroes of “Old Hickory” fought the Nazis back and Mortain and the Normandy Campaign was saved.
The 30th was never awarded a citation recognizing this critical victory during the initial months of the Normandy invasion.
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NC Guard Soldiers Rail Load Armor, Vehicles for National Training Center Deployment DVIDS
FORT BRAGG, N.C. — Teams of North Carolina National Guard Soldiers from the 113th Sustainment Brigade (SB) and 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team (ABCT) prepared and loaded armored vehicles for cross-country rail transport to Fort Irwin, California for the ABCT’s annual training deployment this summer at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, June 1, 2019.
This rail load is part of the third deployment of the nearly 4,200 Soldiers of the 30th ABCT since 2001 to Fort Irwin for the best, most current combat training available in the U.S. Army.
“It is a great feeling to be part of it, carrying all these vehicles,” said Spc. Derrick Eley, a truck driver assigned to the 1452nd Transportation Company, 113th SB.
The railyard was a hive of activity, convoys of 48-wheeled Heavy Equipment Transporter trucks from 1452nd. Each 50-foot trailer behind the massive 8-wheeled trucks carried 30th ABCT’s armored vehicles, either a Bradley Fighting Vehicle, an armored personnel carrier, Hercules Recovery Vehicle, an especially designed vehicle capable of towing other armored vehicles or a M1A1 Abrams main battle tank.
“It is so much, so many vehicles; it is a lot of firepower” said Spc. Abigail Uhrich, a Soldier assigned to the 113th Special Troops Battalion, 113th SB.
Hurricane Season Is upon Us, but Fear Not: The National Guard Is Ready National Interest
Hurricane season officially starts on Saturday, and the National Guard’s Vice Director of Domestic Operations, Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Burkett, wants you to know that while individual preparation for natural disasters is “absolutely essential,” the Guard — along with its federal and state partners — have been working to stay ahead of whatever may come.
Several states and military installations across the country have taken a big hit from natural disasters in recent months — many bases are still recovering from the last hurricane season — but Burkett told reporters on Thursday that the Guard’s work on current recovery won’t impact their ability to respond to potential future disasters.
“There’s always some things we’d probably like to improve on,” Burkett said. “But I think we’re pretty well-equipped and trained and ready to go.”
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 Event Planner Career Prep. Employment of meeting, convention, and event planners is projected to grow 11 percent by 2026. In this course you will study the principles and practices of event planning, learning the aspects of initial planning, budgeting and organization.
June 6th — Today in Guard History National Guard
1944 – Normandy, France – The Allied invasion of France, commonly known as “D-Day” begins as Guardsmen from the 29th Infantry Division (DC, MD, VA) storm onto what will forever after be known as “bloody Omaha” Beach. The lead element, Virginia’s 116th Infantry, suffers nearly 80% casualties but gains the foothold needed for the invasion to succeed. The 116’s artillery support, the 111th Field Artillery Battalion, also from Virginia, loses all 12 of its guns in high surf trying to get on the beach. Its men take up arms from the dead and fight as infantrymen. Engineer support came from the District of Columbia’s 121st Engineer Battalion. Despite high loses too, its men succeed in blowing holes in several obstacles clearing paths for the men to get inland off the beach. In the early afternoon, Maryland’s 115th Infantry lands behind the 116th and moves through its shattered remnants to start the movement in off the beach. Supporting the invasion was the largest air fleet known to history. Among the units flying missions were the Guards’ 107th (MI) and 109th (MN) Tactical Reconnaissance Squadrons The Normandy campaign lasted until the end of July with four Guard infantry divisions; the 28th (PA), 29th, 30th (NC, SC, TN) and the 35th (KS, MO, NE) taking part along with dozens of non-divisional units all earning the “Normandy” streamer.
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