NCNGA Weekly Guardsman for September 22, 2022

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September 22nd, 2022

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Registration Now Available for NCNGA Convention and NCNG Military Ball NCNGA
Hugely powerful new Marine helicopter makes training exercise debut MarineCorpsTimes
Join Us At 14th Annual Len Adams Memorial Scholarship Golf Tournament NCNGA
Army National Guard launches free child care for soldiers during drill weekends Stars & Stripes
Scholarship Spotlight: Weldon E. Holcomb & Lt Col William C. Polk Memorial Scholarships NCNGA
Read the latest edition of the Tarheel Guardsman NCNGA
Highlighting EANGUS and NGAUS’s upcoming conferences NCNGA
Tickets-At-Work: Members get Discounts on Tickets NCNGA
This Week in NCNG History NCNG Museum
September 22nd — Today in Guard History National Guard

Registration Now Available for NCNGA Convention and NCNG Military Ball NCNGA

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Hugely powerful new Marine helicopter makes training exercise debut MarineCorpsTimes

A hugely powerful helicopter whose mechanical issues had delayed it from becoming operational finally deployed to its first Marine training exercise in August in the mountains of Idaho.

The CH-53K King Stallion helicopters can externally carry up to 27,000 pounds for 110 nautical miles, making them three times as powerful as their predecessor, the CH-53E Super Stallion.

In practice, that means the King Stallion can transport light armored vehicles long distances from ships to positions inland. The ability to carry heavy loads across long stretches of sea may prove an asset as the threat of China looms and the U.S. military turns its attention toward the islands of the Pacific.

“Routinely training with an LAV for an external load, to me, is absolute[ly] mind-boggling,” Staff Sgt. Dakota Schneider, a crew chief instructor with Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1, said in a Marine Corps news release Thursday. “It’s got power for days; you can do anything you want.”

Scholarship Spotlight:

Weldon E. Holcomb Memorial Scholarship

Mr. Holcomb joined the military and 1942 as part of the 28th Infantry Division. He participated in D-Day invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944. He was captured by the Germans at the Battle of the Bulge in December of 1944. He was a POW for nine months before escaping and making his way back to the American lines to be released in May 1945. Mr. Holcomb joined the NCNG in 1947 as a full-time unit administrator in Winston-Salem. He serves as Division Food Service Chief and Battalion Administrative Officer for the 230th Support Battalion, 30th Infantry Division, Winston-Salem. Upon his death in 1973, Mr. Holcomb had attained the rank of Chief Warrant Officer Four.

Lt Col William C. Polk Memorial Scholarship

Lt Col Polk enlisted in the US Army in February of 1943 in September of that year he entered duty as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Corps ultimately serving as a bomber pilot. He flew the A-26 over “The Hump” in the Burma-China Theater at the age of 21. He was reassigned in April of 1946 to the Army Air Corps Reserves where he served until joining the North Carolina Air National Guard, 156th Fighter Bomber Squadron in 1954 as a pilot flying the F86A. He was seriously injured in the crash of his T-33 at Savannah, Georgia during exercises. He was employed as the full-time Base Civilian Engineer for the NCANG. Many changes on the base were the result of his efforts. His last large design and construction project was the base operations building. He retired from as a full-time technician and from the NCANG on April 30, 1981.

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Read the latest edition of the Tarheel Guardsman NCNGA

The latest edition of the Tarheel Guardsman is now available online at https://ncnga.org/tarheel-guardsman/

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://ncnga.org/discounts/

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

September 22nd — Today in Guard History National Guard

1711
Along the Neuse and Pamlico Rivers, North Carolina – The Tuscarora Indians launch a surprise attack against frontier settlements, due in part to the practice of white settlers enslaving Indian children. In the first day 130 colonists are killed and many more flee to safe enclosures at Bath and New Bern. The North Carolina militia is poorly armed and has little training. In fact, the governor is forced to request assistance from Virginia and South Carolina to help defend the colony. Virginia responds by sending arms and supplies in one of the first instances of inter-colony security cooperation in America. South Carolina raises a small volunteer force composed of white militia and friendly Indians under the command of Colonel John Barnwell. Over the coming months this army, which includes only a few North Carolinians, will be the main offensive force against the hostiles.

1776
Long Island, New York – Former Connecticut school teacher turned spy Captain Nathan Hale is hanged by the British. Hale was recruited by General George Washington to slip into the enemy’s camp and learn where they planned to strike the Continental Army next, having just forced it from Long Island back into New York City. After spending several days in the disguise of a Dutch school teacher, all the time making notes about British activities, Hale was captured one night when a boat he thought was dispatched to pick him up turned out to be an enemy craft. When searched his notes were found and he was quickly sentenced to death. While most people think he said ‘I regret I have but one life to give for my country’ in a fact what he said, as recorded by British Adjutant Major John Andre was “I am so satisfied with the cause in which I have engaged that my only regret is that I have not more lives to offer in its service.” It is interesting to note that Major Andre himself would be hanged by the Americans as a spy for his part in the failed attempt by General Benedict Arnold to turn West Point over to the British later in the war.

1943
Olieto, Italy – Second Lieutenant Ernest Childers, Company C, 180th Infantry, 45th Infantry Division (AZ, CO, NM, OK), single-handedly estroys both an enemy machine gun nest and mortar position, all while suffering from a fractured instep! 2nd Lt. Childers became the first Native American National Guardsman to earn the Medal of Honor for actions performed that day. He stayed in the Army after the war, and retired as a lieutenant colonel in 1965. Childers passed away in 2005.

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