NCNGA Weekly Guardsman for March 31, 2022

Posted on: March 31, 2022 March 31, 2022
Author: ncngaweekly

March 31st, 2022

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IN THIS EDITION:

Highlighting EANGUS and NGAUS’s upcoming conferences NCNGA
The Wall That Heals is coming to Garner March 31 – April 3, 2022 NCNGA
North Carolina cyber chief says new recognition for task force will improve its reach StateScoop
Highly Decorated Vietnam Era Marine Honored, Mourned, Laid to Rest in Arizona DVIDS
Tickets-At-Work: Members get Discounts on Tickets NCNGA
This Week in NCNG History NCNG Museum
March 31st — Today in Guard History National Guard

Highlighting EANGUS and NGAUS’s upcoming conferences NCNGA

While our conference in Wilmington last week was a success, we want to highlight EANGUS and NGAUS’s upcoming conferences for their members! Be sure to sign up soon to reserve your spot.
For information on EANGUS: https://eangusconference.org/
For information on NGAUS: https://www.ngaus.org/…/144th-general-conference…

The Wall That Heals is coming to Garner March 31 – April 3, 2022 NCNGA

The Wall That Heals is coming to Garner’s Lake Benson Park on March 31 – April 3, 2022. The exhibit, hosted by Show N Tell Ministries and the Town of Garner, is the preeminent traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.
For more information visit: https://thewallthathealsgarnernc.org/visit/

North Carolina cyber chief says new recognition for task force will improve its reach StateScoop

Rob Main, North Carolina’s top cybersecurity official, said Thursday that an executive order from Gov. Roy Cooper last week giving formal recognition to a statewide task force will greatly expand its ability to defend against digital threats and shorten recovery times when an incident occurs.

Main, who was named the state’s chief risk officer last October, told StateScoop that Cooper’s order will strengthen the North Carolina Joint Cybersecurity Task Force, an interagency group — first formed in 2017 — that helps local governments mitigate cyberattacks and potentially prevent them from happening in the first place.

Rob Main (North Carolina Department of Information Technology)
“Having the formal recognition is extremely valuable to the task force as there are opportunities to broaden awareness of what capabilities it brings to bear,” Main said.

Highly Decorated Vietnam Era Marine Honored, Mourned, Laid to Rest in Arizona DVIDS

Honor, courage, and commitment are core values instilled within every United States Marine. The late Lt. Col David Althoff lived and served in accordance with these values and led by example in showing his fellow Marines what it meant to put these words into action throughout his impressive 22 year career. However, it is his leadership, and steadfast resiliency in combat, as well as his courage and unwavering calmness in the heat of battle, which cement his legacy in Marine Corps History. The humble Illinois native is credited with flying over 1,000 combat missions and is revered as one of the Marine Corps most decorated wartime aviators.
Althoff began his illustrious military career as a member of the Army National Guard in July of 1950, spending his first 18 months as an artilleryman.

“In the reserves we go every month on a Saturday, we spent all day drilling, learning military tactics and techniques,” Althoff explained in an interview with his son before his passing. “Every summer we’d go down for two months in Fort Huachuca and fire all day long. My job initially was to load shells into that Howitzer, I’d slam it in there with my fist and close the door. Then I graduated a little bit. I was pulling the cord rather than shoving the shells. That was a lot easier. I finally ended up being in the fire direction center, where all I did was plot the direction the can should be pointing and move the azimuth up and down to get closer or further away. I observed the target and the hits to plot them on a chart.”

During his time as a Soldier, Althoff attended Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. With the start of the Korean War, the draft was initiated to expand the size of the armed forces. Althoff and his roommate knew there was no way for them to avoid the draft and they, collectively, made the decision to join the Air Force.

“We got there and the damn line was two blocks long just to get to talk to the recruiter. So I said well let’s go talk to the Navy guy for a little bit till the line calms down then we’ll come back and we’ll join the Air Force,” said Althoff. “Well…by the time we talked to the Navy recruiter for about 10 minutes we were signing on the dotted line to go to Navy flight training, but since we didn’t have a college degree we signed to be naval aviation cadets.”

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