April 7th, 2022

 

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Guardian Angels for Soldier’s Pets EANGUS 
Fayetteville soldiers named best of the best for North Carolina National Guard Fayetteville Observer 
NC’s close ties to Ukrainian neighbor will be tested as war’s impact spills over News&Observer 
EANGUS Roll Call: Drill Weekend Talking Points EANGUS 
Highlighting EANGUS and NGAUS’s upcoming conferences NCNGA 
Tickets-At-Work: Members get Discounts on Tickets NCNGA 
This Week in NCNG History NCNG Museum 
April 7th — Today in Guard History National Guard 

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Guardian Angels for Soldier’s Pets EANGUS 

The Guardian Angels for Soldier’s Pets organization supports active duty service members, wounded warriors, veterans, and their beloved companion animals through many services.
Their Pet Home Foster Program does amazing work. They find safe foster homes for pets of deploying active duty service members while their owners are out protecting our country. In addition, they have a Military Pet Assistance fund that is used to help homeless veterans pay for veterinary care.

If you would like any information on how to use the organizations services, donate, become a volunteer or even to become a foster home yourself, use this link: https://gafsp.org
Guardian Angels for Soldier’s Pet

Fayetteville soldiers named best of the best for North Carolina National Guard Fayetteville Observer 

Out of the 12,000 soldiers and airmen who make up the North Carolina National Guard, two soldiers from Fayetteville were named this year’s best warriors.

Sgt. Jacob Reid, a 2011 Jack Britt High School graduate, earned the Best Noncommissioned Officer award, and Spc. Adrian Ramirez, a 2019 Douglas Byrd High School graduate, earned the Best Soldier award.

The annual six-day competition evaluated physical fitness, weapons qualification, road march, land navigation, warrior tasks, a stress shooting course, and a professional appearance review board for the best overall non-commissioned officer and enlisted soldier, said Sgt. Maj. James McKee, a competition organizer.

Reid and Ramirez advanced to represent the state in the regional competition held in May at Camp Blanding, Florida, McKee said.

At the statewide competition in March, Reid and Ramirez were among 14 participants representing each of the North Carolina National Guard’s major subordinate commands.

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NC’s close ties to Ukrainian neighbor will be tested as war’s impact spills over News&Observer 

Smokehouse, a restaurant in Chisinau, the capital of the Eastern European country of Moldova, has become a distribution point for food, diapers and other supplies for refugees fleeing the war in neighboring Ukraine. Smokehouse used to serve American-style Tex-Mex and BBQ, including pulled pork sandwiches with sides of mac and cheese, baked beans and corn succotash. “That’s where all the Americans go,” Elaine Marshall, the N.C. Secretary of State, said in an interview. “And all the Tar Heels in particular, we go there. You would not be a stranger at this restaurant.”

Marshall has visited Moldova more than a dozen times over the last 20 years. She’s the driving force behind an unusually deep relationship between a state and a foreign country, one that many North Carolinians would be hard pressed to find on a map. The governments of Moldova and North Carolina signed a partnership agreement in 1999 that has inspired and facilitated countless connections and exchanges. Teachers, librarians, nurses, dentists, agricultural scientists and others in the state have reached out to help one of Europe’s poorest countries since it emerged from under Soviet domination in the 1990s.

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EANGUS Roll Call: Drill Weekend Talking Points EANGUS 

After close to six months of Continuing Resolutions and concerns over Government Shutdowns, Congress was finally able to work together to pass an appropriations bill that will fund the government, including the Department of Defense (DoD), through the remaining months of the Fiscal Year 2022. On March 15, 2022, the President signed H.R. 2471, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2022. Within this Omnibus Appropriations, “Division C” includes the Department of Defense appropriations, and “Division J” consists of the Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies appropriations. This initial summary will highlight some essential topics funded for F.Y. 2022.

For 2022, the DoD appropriations bill provides $728.5 billion in discretionary spending, increasing $32.5 billion above 2021. The 2022 Military Construction, Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations bill provide $284.6 billion, an increase of $32.7 billion – more than 13 percent – above 2021. Of this amount, discretionary funding for programs such as Veterans’ health care and military construction totals $127.6 billion, an increase of $14.4 billion above 2021.

• Funds a 2.7% military pay raise
• Funds an end strength of 336,000 (500 below FY21) for the ARNG and 108,300 (200 above FY21) for the ANG
• Funds Full-Time force of 30,845 (250 above FY21) for the ARNG and 25,333 (2,696 below FY21 and $1,328 below budget request)
• $9,018M for ARNG Personnel, a decrease of $33.6M from the FY22 PBR
• $4,764M for ANG Personnel, a reduction of $50.5M from the FY22 PBR
• $7,714M for ARNG O&M, an increase of $67.2M from the FY22 PBR
• $6,786M for ANG O&M, an increase of $212.4M from the FY22 PBR
• Appropriates $285M each for the ARNG and ANG in NGREA
• Adds $20M for C-130 Airborne Firefighting Systems
• Adds $42M for STARBASE
• Adds $85.3M for the National Guard Youth ChalleNGe Program
• National Guard Counter-Drug Program
  • Funds $194.2M for the National Guard Counter-Drug Program, an increase of $97.2M from the FY22 PBR
  • Funds $25.6M for National Guard Counter-Drug Schools, an increase of $20.0M from the FY22 PBR
• Additional Funds for ARNG Programs
  • Adds $211.5M for nine HH-60M Blackhawks
  • Adds $100M for HMMWV Modernization
  • Adds $1.5M Personnel and $534K O&M for Advanced Trauma and Public Health Direct Training Services
  • Adds $10M Personnel and $13M O&M for Exercise Northern Strike
  • Adds $32.1 for Army National Guard Special Training, including:
    • $7.9M Personnel and $5.0M O&M for State Partnership Program
    • $6.5 M Personnel and $1.5M O&M for Wildfire Training
    • $1.2M Personnel and $2.0M O&M for Trauma Training
    • $6.0M Personnel and $2M O&M for Cybersecurity Technical Assistance Pilot Program
  • Adds $3M for Warrior Resiliency and Fitness
  • Adds $19.8M O&M for Implementation of the Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assault in the Military
• Additional Funds for ANG Programs
  • Adds $1.8B for 16 other C-130J aircraft for ANG Operational SQDNS
  • Adds $2.7M Personnel and $1.8M O&M for Advanced Trauma and Public Health Direct Training Services
  • Adds $42.9M for Air National Guard Special Training, including
    • $2.5M Personnel and $3.7M O&M for State Partnership Program
    • $3M Personnel for Critical Skillsets Crosstraining
    • $12.7M Personnel and $10M O&M for RC-26B
    • $2.4M Personnel and $2.0 O&M for Trauma Training
    • $5.5 M Personnel and $1.1M O&M for Wildfire Training
  • Adds $3.0M for Warrior Resiliency and Fitness
  • Adds $540K Personnel and $6.4M O&M for Implementation of the Independent Review Commission on Sexual Assault in the Military
• Prohibits funds from being used to reduce authorized positions for National Guard military technicians

One additional Highlight of this bill is found in Division CC.

The Burial Equity for Guards and Reserves Act prohibits restricting the internment of Guardsmen and Reservists in state veterans’ cemeteries. This issue was identified, and EANGUS strongly advocated for its passage. EANGUS sent out a Call-To-Action on this topic in February, and with our member’s help, we were able to get this legislation passed.

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EANGUS SCHOLARSHIP DEADLINES TO APPLY

Great educational opportunities for EANGUS members and their dependents! Our scholarship program is one of the primary benefits we offer to our members and their dependents. Each year, we award multiple scholarships with a total value of over $400,000.

The EANGUS Scholarship Program offers the award of many full-tuition scholarships provided by our partner institutions:

Colorado Technical University
2 undergraduate, graduate or doctorate scholarships (closes 1 April 2022)
University of Phoenix
3 undergraduate or graduate scholarships (closes 20 April 2022)
Sonoran Desert Institute
Associates in Science in Firearms Technology (opening soon)

Currently, there is over $26,000 in corporate and individual donations toward the CSM Virgil Williams $2000 Scholarships, Patriot $1000 Scholarships, and the CSMAC $1000 Scholarships. These scholarships are awarded and applied to the school of your choice toward tuition and educational costs.

Check out the https://eangus.org/scholarship-information/ for details and application information for each institution and scholarships we offer.

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…

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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Tickets-At-Work: Members get Discounts on Tickets NCNGA 

Tickets at Work: The benefits are endless when it comes to being a NCNGA member! Check out our Tickets-At-Work program, where members can get discounts on tickets from Busch Gardens all the way to Disney. For more information, visit https://www.ncnga.org/benefits.php#Discount

 

 

This Week in NCNG History NCNG Museum 

If you know of anything significant to the NCNG that occurred on any of these dates, and would like it added to our records, please email 1LT Dearie at kory.k.dearie.mil@mail.mil

April 7th — Today in Guard History National Guard 

1712
Hancock’s Fort, NC – South Carolina’s Colonel John Barnwell, commanding a combined white militia and friendly Indian force numbering about 300 men, again besieges this main encampment of the hostile Tuscarora Indians. The Tuscarora’s had launched a surprise attacks in September 1711, killing about 130 colonists, prompting North Carolina to ask Virginia and South Carolina for help. Barnwell’s army was composed mostly of South Carolina militia. He had besieged the hostiles’ fort in March but agreed to a truce after the Indians began torturing their captives within earshot of the militia. The Tuscarora failed to honor part of their agreement. Barnwell maintained the siege for ten days, finally forcing the Indians to surrender. All captives were freed and other conditions were met bringing the Tuscarora War to close.

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The Weekly Guardsman

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