NCNGA Weekly Guardsman for February 11, 2021
February 11, 2021
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IN THIS EDITION:
Save the Date, the 2021 Virtual Convention is taking shape! NCNGA
Help Your Association – Run for the NCNGA Executive Council NCNGA
N.C. National Guard helps with COVID-19 vaccination efforts in Macon County WLOS
Discount at all Motel 6 and Studio 6 Extended Stay Locations in the US for The National Guard NCNGA
2021 EANGUS Scholarship Season NOW OPEN! EANGUS
North Carolina National Guardsman uses refurbished Army truck to give veterans military honors WXII
Recruiting the Future and Living the Dream DVIDS
Could Fort Bragg be renamed for a woman? Fayetteville Observer
February 11th — Today in Guard History National Guard
Save the Date, the 2021 Virtual Convention is taking shape! NCNGA
While we don’t have the full details we are putting together a great virtual conference that will include guest speakers along with doing the required business of the Association. This virtual event will be conducted live and streamed on the Association’s Facebook page. This will be a public Facebook event and you will not need to have a Facebook profile to participate. Put the 12th of March at 10:00 on your schedule so you can watch this great event. Keep an eye on the weekly update for more details.
Help Your Association – Run for the NCNGA Executive Council NCNGA
Help Your Association
Run for the NCNGA Executive Council!
The Nominating & Credentials Committee is actively seeking qualified candidates to run for Executive Council seats. Upcoming vacancies will be filled at the next convention to be held virtually in March of 2021.
Qualifications to run for office: you must be a member of the North Carolina National Guard Association and have served on an active committee within the past five years (except Junior Council Members) or on an active Sub-committee or workgroup.
If you are qualified (see above) and interested in being an important part of your Association, please complete the application below and email it or fax it to the NCNGA office, email info@ncnga.org, fax 919-859-4990. If you have any questions, please contact us by email or at 919-851-3390. Please return this form by the 26th of February.
N.C. National Guard helps with COVID-19 vaccination efforts in Macon County WLOS
MACON COUNTY, N.C. (WLOS) — As COVID-19 vaccination efforts are underway across the state, some counties are getting additional help from the North Carolina National Guard.
Last month, Governor Roy Cooper mobilized National Guard troops to help out at vaccination clinics across the state.
A team of 12 guardsmen and women have been stationed in Macon County for nearly three weeks.
“It has increased our capacity for the ability to get vaccines done in the back and how many shots we can go through,” said Jennifer Garrett, the director of nursing at Macon County Public Health.
County staff say the National Guard’s presence had been a major help, considering the county is rural and residents have shown a high interest in getting vaccinated.
Discount at all Motel 6 and Studio 6 Extended Stay Locations in the US for The National Guard NCNGA
G6 Hospitality, headquartered in Carrollton, Texas which manages 1,400 of the Studio 6 Extended Stay and Motel 6 properties in the U.S. is providing you with a rate that is lower than the Per Diem Rate. This special discount can be used for Business or Personal Travel.
TO MAKE RESERVATIONS AND RECEIVE THE 10% DISCOUNT:
Go to the link: https://www.motel6.com/content/g6/en/home/cp/national-guard.html
OR
Go to www.motel6.com and enter the Corporate Plus Code: CPZ2L9JA (Under your credit card information)
OR
Call General Reservations 855-445-3388 and give them the Corporate Plus Code: CPZ2L9JA
Whether it is for Business or for Personal travel, as a member of the National Guard, we hope you will enjoy taking advantage of the discount we now have in place for you at all Studio 6 Extended Stay and Motel 6 properties in the U.S.!
2021 EANGUS Scholarship Season NOW OPEN! EANGUS
Great educational opportunities for EANGUS members and their dependents! The EANGUS scholarship program offers the award of many full-tuition scholarships provided by our partner institutions, as well as our $2,000 CSM Virgil Williams Scholarships and $1,000 Patriot Scholarships funded by corporate and individual donations.
Our scholarship program is one of the primary benefits we offer to our members. Each year, we award multiple scholarships with a total value of over $500,000. Please see link below for Scholarships offered and how to apply.
Questions regarding the EANGUS Scholarship Program can be directed to the Committee Chair CMSgt Rosemarie Marston (Ret) and Vice-Chair SMSgt James Neill (Ret) at scholarship@eangus.org
Scholarship Information & Application
North Carolina National Guardsman uses refurbished Army truck to give veterans military honors WXII
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. —
A member of the North Carolina National Guard is using a refurbished Army truck to honor military veterans during their funeral services.
Platoon Sgt. Walter Blower said his full-time job is funerals. He performs taps on a World War II bugle and presents a flag to families of fallen veterans.
And now, he is using his refurbished 1971 Army transport vehicle to honor them, known in the military as a “deuce and a half.”
He said he came up with the idea to use his truck after attending a service for a veteran whose ashes arrived in a cardboard box inside of a beat-up Toyota with the muffler dragging on the ground.
“There were two family members that showed up and the veteran was still literally in the cardboard box that the remains were mailed in,” Sgt. Blower said. “And I was just standing there waiting to do honors and just thinking, ‘My God, that’s no way for someone who served our country to be brought in.'”
Sgt. Blower said he’s seeing more and more funerals for veterans whose families have fallen on hard times. He wants to help and is offering his truck to transport veterans to their final resting place for free.
“One of the things that I think is kind of falling to the wayside nowadays is honor,” Sgt. Blower said. “And, to me, I think it is an extremely honorable thing to do.”
Recruiting the Future and Living the Dream DVIDS
While the world might consider 2020 to be a bad year, there is one member of the North Carolina Air National Guard who used it to excel; that person is U.S. Air Force Technical Sgt. Nikki Morgan, a Recruiter with the 145th Force Support Squadron. Tech. Sgt. Morgan was recently recognized and coined for an outstanding job performance on February 6, 2021, at the North Carolina Air National Guard base, Charlotte Douglas International Airport.
North Carolina Air National Guard Chief of Staff, Brig. General Alan R. Cecil, presented Technical Sergeant Morgan with the coin. Morgan’s efforts over the past 2 years have helped the Wing stay above 90-percent strength for both Fiscal Year 2019, and 2020.
According to North Carolina Air National Guard State Production Superintendent, Senior Master Sgt. Joe Laskowski, at the beginning of the fiscal year, goals are based off of the Wing’s average losses during the previous 3 years, along with some other factors. For fiscal year 2019, the 145th Airlift Wing’s strength was at 98-percent, for 2020, the Wing was at 100-percent strength, and for 2021, it is at 101.8-percent strength.
Tech. Sgt. Morgan, who started out in the Army National Guard, has only been a recruiter for two and a half years. She then enlisted in the Air National Guard as a personnel specialist before becoming a recruiter. Her decision to become a recruiter was based on her own experience when she enlisted in the Air National Guard.
“I wanted to be a recruiter to help people join the Air National Guard, get the experience like I got, and benefit from the Air Force’s best kept secret,” Tech. Sgt. Morgan explains.
Could Fort Bragg be renamed for a woman? Fayetteville Observer
As Congress starts evaluating the process for renaming military installations that are named after Confederate generals and names are tossed out for consideration, noticeably missing from all the Army’s more than 35 posts are the names of women.
According to a 2020 annual report for the Defense Department Advisory Committee on Women in the Services, women made up 15.5%, or 74,545, of the regular Army as of September.
In the Reserve, about 24.8%, or 47,770 are women; and 18.9%, or 63,387, of the Army National Guard are women, according to the report.
As of 2019, women represented 17% of the U.S. military, and as of 2015, about 9% of the U.S. veteran population, according to the report.
February 11th — Today in Guard History National Guard
1969
Fire Support Base Anzio, Vietnam – Gunners of Battery B, 2nd Battalion, 138th Artillery (KY) use their M-109 self-propelled 155mm howitzers to deliver reinforcing fires in support of Operation Kentucky Jumper conducted by the 101st Airborne Division. During this six-week mission, the battery fires 10,942 rounds. During its one year tour of service the battalion suffers 14 men killed in action, eight of them Guardsmen, the highest number of any of the eight Guard units deployed to Vietnam.
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