NCNGA Weekly Guardsman for December 3, 2020

November 25, 2020

 

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 IN THIS EDITION:

Tarheel Homecoming Virtual Edition- December 11th 2020 NCNGA 
International Community Must Remain Focused on ISIS in Iraq, Syria AF Mag 
Make your plans now to join EANGUS in the Land of Enchantment! NCNGA 
North Carolina National Guard Pension Fund NCNGA 
NCNG Soldiers distribute food ahead of Thanksgiving US Army 
December 3rd — Today in Guard History National Guard 


Tarheel Homecoming Virtual Edition- December 11th 2020 NCNGA 

The North Carolina National Guard Association would like to extend an invitation for you to attend the Virtual Tarheel Homecoming. Speakers included the Adjutant General, Senior Enlisted Leaders, as well as others that will provide a NCNG operational update as well as other important information.

This will be a live event with the virtual details coming soon. Also you may submit questions before the event that will be answered during the event. All questions will need to be submitted by the 7th of December. Also if there is a specific item or topic covered please submit your request via email for consideration.

Everyone that submit a questions will be entered in a drawing for gift cards and the winners will be announced at the virtual event.

While there is no cost associated with this event you are asked to register by submitting name, rank, and current email to info@ncnga.org. Questions or suggestions for presentation material can be submitted to the same email.

Once the final virtual link/format is established a follow-up email and will be sent to everyone that is registered.

You still have time to register and submit questions for this event. Topics Include:

  • 2020 NCNG Year in Review
  • NCNG Top 5 Achievements for 2020
  • NCNG Current Operations Update – COVID 19 Response and Current/Upcoming deployments
  • Retiree update – Services available, Government Affairs Update, NCNGA Update
  • NCNG Retiree Town Hall with the Adjutant General, Senior Enlisted – Army, Senior Enlisted – Air. This discussion will be driven by your submitted questions.

Email your questions and intent to attend to info@ncnga.org

International Community Must Remain Focused on ISIS in Iraq, Syria AF Mag 

As the coalition’s footprint in Iraq and Syria “diminishes,” international support for institutional changes, such as building a local judiciary and a military that can sustain itself, is necessary to ensure the Islamic State group does not return, the No. 2 commander of Combined Joint Task Force-Operation Inherent Resolve said.

United Kingdom Army Maj. Gen. Kevin Copsey, speaking during a virtual Middle East Institute event Nov. 30, said the “international political microscope” needs to stay focused on areas within Iraq and Syria where ISIS remains. The group still operates in rural areas such as the Euphrates River Valley and contested regions near Kurdistan, though it has shifted to “survival mode” and is focusing more on criminal activity.

Without continued international support, particularly NATO-led efforts on training and maintaining readiness, ISIS could return because of a continued ability to provide command and control and limited financing in these regions, Copsey said.

NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the organization is “stepping up, enhancing our presence in Iraq to provide more support.” The U.S., however, is planning to withdraw about 500 troops from Iraq by Jan. 15, 2021, bringing the total American contingent to 2,500 personnel in the country, Acting Defense Secretary Christopher C. Miller has said.

“We need to prevent ISIS from returning,” Stoltenberg said on Nov. 30. “The best way of doing that is to enable the Iraqi security forces to be able to fight Daesh and to become stronger.”

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Make your plans now to join EANGUS in the Land of Enchantment! NCNGA 

The 50th Anniversary Conference will be held in Albuquerque, NM, August 8-11, 2021. Register today at eangusconference.org.

North Carolina National Guard Pension Fund NCNGA 

The Retirement Systems Division of the Office of the NC Treasurer now has a webpage for the NCNG Pension Fund – it provides some basic information on the Pension as well as an email contact. Please keep in mind your first step in enrolling is by contacting the Retirement Section of the NCNG – Click here.

NCNG Soldiers distribute food ahead of Thanksgiving US Army 

FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. – North Carolina National Guard Soldiers and Airmen worked with the Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeastern North Carolina to distribute free food at a drive-thru event at the Crown Coliseum on Nov. 24.

The team of 27 Guard members came from multiple units across the state and are part of the 177 Guard members who were activated in September to continue supporting the North Carolina Department of Public Safety and the Department of Health and Human Services during their response to COVID-19.

A large-scale distribution like this was not a simple task, and David Griffin, an emergency services administrator for the food bank, said he was thankful for the Guard’s support.

“We couldn’t do it without the North Carolina National Guard,” Griffin said. “Without them, and their expertise in logistics and things of that nature, we couldn’t do the job we are able to do.”

The Guard members worked with other volunteers to unload trucks, move pallets of food with a forklift, divide produce into boxes, direct traffic, and load food into vehicles.

Although the large event was a challenge, 2nd Lt. Hunter Maynor, assigned to the North Carolina Army National Guard’s 236th Brigade Engineering Battalion, 30th Armored Brigade Combat Team, said he genuinely enjoyed supporting the food bank.

“I just commissioned about two months ago, so this was my first experience ever, and I signed up for this because I knew how important it was,” Maynor said. “We live in this community, too. We care about our neighbors, too, and we want to help.”

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December 3rd — Today in Guard History National Guard 

1774
Baltimore, Maryland – The newly organized Baltimore Independent Cadets elect Mordecai Gist as its captain. The Cadets, a volunteer militia company raised along the lines of the Minutemen in Massachusetts, willing undergo weekly military training as tension increases with Britain over American rights. Less then a year after the Revolutionary War (in January 1776) the company was expanded into Colonel William Smallwood’s Maryland Regiment, later redesignated as the Maryland Line of the Continental Army. During the Battle of Long Island, NY, on August 27, 1776, Smallwood’s bold leadership of his regiment, along with the Delaware Regiment, helped save the American army from a total rout following a well-coordinated British assault. From 1776 until the end of the war the regiment served in every major engagement fought by the main American army including the final British surrender at Yorktown in 1781. The Maryland Line gained a reputation for strong discipline and courage under fire. Today the heritage of the Maryland Line is perpetuated by the 175th Infantry Regiment.

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