National Guard

By Staff Sgt. Julian Kemper  175th WG – Maryland Air National Guard MIDDLE RIVER, Md. – The day before Thanksgiving, most people are thinking about a short list of things to do – ensuring the turkey is thawed, cleaning the house for a family visit, or preparing for a long trip to see relatives. For Maryland Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Brooke ...

Author: U.S. Air National Guard Master Sgt. Christopher Schepers Photos by: U.S. Air National Guard Master Sgt. Christopher Schepers & U.S. Air National Guard Senior Airman Sarah M. McClanahan Airmen from the 175th Wing, Maryland Air National Guard, took time during drill weekend for a Resilience Tactical Pause in response to an increase in suicides throughout the Air Force. The Resilience Tactical Pause, ...

Just a few miles beyond the bustling cyber hub surrounding Fort Meade, Maryland, is the Laurel Readiness Center and home to the Maryland National Guard’s 169th Cyber Protection Team. This team of cyber professionals have the mission to defend Department of Defense information networks and assist in cyber defense outside of the DOD when called. What makes the 169th CPT ...

For the first time in Maryland National Guard history, one Maryland Soldier moved through the tiers of the Best Warrior Competition all the way to the national level, the 2019 U.S. Army Best Warrior Competition. Not only did this Soldier progress through the battalion, brigade, MDNG, and regional competitions to make it to the Army BWC, he was a close ...

From Sept. 9-12, members of the U.S. Air Force and Army as well as the Maryland and Ohio National Guard, shared tactics, techniques and procedures with members of the AFBiH on public affairs and strategic communication, cargo loading and unloading procedures, and joint terminal attack controller (JTAC) operations.

Members of the Maryland Army National Guard’s 115th Military Police Battalion, conducted a course on criminal investigation procedures on Sept. 2 – 6, 2019, for members of the Armed Forces of Bosnia-Herzegovina at Rajlovac Barracks, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Service members from both countries came to the course with prior experience in their specific careers relating to military police work and some had ...

Governor Larry Hogan today authorized sending a Maryland Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team (MD-HART) to North Carolina to assist in potential rescues from the effects of Hurricane Dorian.   The team, consisting of two UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters with four crew members from the Maryland Army National Guard and two divers from the Baltimore, Howard, and Montgomery County Fire Departments, will depart today ahead ...

Expressions of amazement and intrigue showed across the faces of the YouthWorks STEM program participants as they experienced some of the STEM-related career fields in the Maryland National Guard. The MDNG recently supported the curriculum of Baltimore City’s STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) program under YouthWorks. Each Wednesday throughout the month, the group of about 40 junior-high-school age YouthWorks participants ...

Governor Larry Hogan and First Lady Yumi Hogan met with officials of the Maryland National Guard and elected leaders during a visit to the recently opened Easton Readiness Center Aug. 14 in Talbot County. The new 37,000 square foot facility replaces a legacy building constructed in 1976 that was originally built for a single, all male unit.

Some soldiers physically push themselves, compete against who they were yesterday, and train above and beyond meeting the minimum requirements of an Army physical fitness test. As motivation to be physically active can vary, some Maryland Army National Guard soldiers conduct their regular exercise routines in innovative ways. Soldiers like Capt. Meghan Landymore, an ultra marathoner and member of the All ...

The Maryland National Guard held a change of responsibility ceremony for Command Sgt. Maj. Perlisa Wilson, the organization’s first female senior enlisted leader, on Dec. 8, 2018, at the Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore. Maj. Gen. Linda L. Singh, the adjutant general of Maryland, presided over the ceremony which formally introduced ...