NCNGA Weekly Guardsman for June 27, 2019
June 27th, 2019
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Registration is now open for the 141st General Conference & Exhibition NCNGA
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, Sep. 19 NCNGA
30th Infantry Division 73rd Annual Reunion NCNGA
Tell us what your Soldiers and Airmen are doing NCNGA
EANGUS conducting a survey on TRICARE NCNGA
Your 2019 Guide to Military Pay and Benefits MilitaryTimes
Join NGAUS and EANGUS! Your membership in our national level partner association is critical.
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
He Went Missing in Korea Nearly 70 Years Ago. Now, a Soldier’s Body is Finally Home Military.com
Ready Player One and Two! DVIDS
CYBER SHIELD 19 Citizen-Soldier
Hindsight is 20/20 Career Pathways Institute
June 27th — 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.
30th Infantry Division 73rd Annual Reunion NCNGA
July 25-28th, Raleigh NC, Ramada Inn, Blue Ridge Road, Raleigh.
See full details and registration…
Tell us what your Soldiers and Airmen are doing. NCNGA
We need your articles for our fall/winter edition of the Tarheel Guardsman magazine. Tell us about what your units are up to this summer. Please provide articles to our editor, Katie Westbrooks, at Katie@ncnga.org. Articles need to be submitted by the 13th of September.
EANGUS conducting a survey on TRICARE NCNGA
The Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States (EANGUS) is conducting a survey on TRICARE. This survey will allow EANGUS to work with national elected officials to solve TRICARE issues and improve TRICARE service delivery to the military. You don’t have to be a member of EANGUS to complete the short 2 minute survey. The online survey is available here.
Your 2019 Guide to Military Pay and Benefits MilitaryTimes
Military service members and veterans have seen major changes to their pay and benefits over the past year. A new retirement benefit, revised rules for Tricare health insurance and changes to GI Bill eligibility can have a far-reaching impact on the lives and livelihoods of military families around the world.
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.
He Went Missing in Korea Nearly 70 Years Ago. Now, a Soldier’s Body is Finally Home Military.com
For nearly 70 years, William “Hoover” Jones’s family wondered what happened to him.
He left North Carolina as an 18-year-old boy from small town Nash County, off to Korea to fight as an infantryman in the U.S. Army. He has been missing-in-action since 1950.
On Thursday, he came home.
U.S. Army Private First Class Jones’s body was returned to his family in a casket adorned with an American flag. He was honored with salutes from veterans on the tarmac at Raleigh-Durham International Airport.
His body was greeted by his three now-elderly sisters and other family members who’ve been waiting decades for answers about his disappearance. Those answers came last fall when the U.S. Army gave the family detailed records about Jones’s military service, his death and how they identified his body through DNA testing, the News & Observer’s news partner, ABC11, previously reported.
“We never gave up hope,” Elizabeth Ohree, Jones’ sister, told ABC11. “To hear the nice soldier tell in detail what happened, it really helped me to understand.”
Ready Player One and Two! DVIDS
Members of the 145th and 159th Security Forces Squadrons wait in anticipation while enveloped in a dark room in the 176th Security Forces Squadron building at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, A.K. The only light emits from three large screens surrounding two players as they take the stage and prepare to initiate escalation and de-escalation tactics throughout random scenes presented to them during annual training.
The Milo Range is an interactive use of force, tactical judgement, and firearms training system used across the globe for military and government law enforcement agencies. Within a simulation, there is someone controlling the level of escalation and de-escalation, as well as number of targets, and weapons calibration, as each person training attempts to face these virtual scenarios.
“It [Milo Range] puts all the Airmen that ever attempt it in a really good mindset, it’s a lot of real world scenarios and some things that they may come across on the active duty side,” said Staff Sgt. Amy Mora, 176th Security Forces Squadron, Milo Range trainer.
CYBER SHIELD 19 Citizen-Soldier
Cyber Shield 19, held in April at Camp Atterbury, Indiana, as the latest iteration of the annual Cyber Shield event series, was an Army National Guard-sponsored exercise that brought together more than 700 participants from 39 States and Territories.
Armed with keyboards, data and technical jargon, Army National Guard Soldiers took to the cyber battleground to train and test their abilities during the largest unclassified cyber exercise in the Department of Defense (DoD).
National Guard Soldiers, Airmen and industry partners conduct network surveillance at Camp Atterbury, Ind., April 2019, during Cyber Shield 19, the Nation’s largest unclassified cyber defense training exercise. Ohio Army National Guard photo by SSG George B. Davis
More than 500 of the participants were Army National Guard Soldiers, while the remaining participants were made up of members of the Air National Guard, Army Reserve, law enforcement community, DoD and cyber defense industry partners, which included Microsoft and CISCO.
Each year, Cyber Shield brings together U.S. Soldiers, Airmen and civilians, State and federal agencies, and industry partners to focus on exchanging best practices and testing vital cyber skills.
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 27th — Today in Guard History National Guard
1944 – Normandy, France – In the days since D-Day (June 6) the Allies have become bogged down by the Norman hedgerows that provide perfect defensive positions for the Germans. Made of stone walls overgrown by centuries of intertwined vines and trees, and rising to heights of ten feet in places, they prove almost indestructible even to tanks trying to push through. So tanks had to come to gaps in the walls, where German artillery would often be waiting to destroy them. Then Sergeant Curtis Culin, a Guard member of New Jersey’s 102nd Cavalry Squadron, develops the idea of taking the iron road obstacles placed by the retreating Germans, fabricating them into a ‘plow’ affixed to the front of a tank that then allows it to ‘cut’ its way through the hedgerow. This allowed the tanks to break through in any unpredictable location, confounding the enemy’s traps. Known as “rhino tanks” more than 300 are so equipped and help to speed up the Allied advance. Sergeant Culin was awarded the Legion of Merit Medal for his idea.
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