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Critical Infastructure Breakfast

Maryland National Guard hosts critical infrastructure meeting with key leadersby Maj. Benjamin Hughes
CROWNSVILLE, Md. – The Maryland National Guard hosted the 2025 Maryland Defense Critical Infrastructure Interagency breakfast for key leaders from federal, state, and local agencies and experts in critical infrastructure at the Maryland Department of General Services Community Place building in Anne Arundel County, June 27, 2025.
Understanding the ...
Read more175th Army Historical Foundation Highlight

Courtesy Article by Joshua Cline, The Army Historical Foundation
Few units in the U.S. Army can claim to have potentially saved the United States from destruction—twice. The Maryland National Guard, living up to the organizational march of “Always Ready, Always There,” proudly declares they have done exactly that, in no small part to the 175th Infantry Regiment. The 175th Infantry is ...
Read moreRecruiter for the Maryland Air Guard receives Master Sgt. Salvador Torres Award

By Airman 1st Class Sarah Hoover
175th Wing
MIDDLE RIVER, Md. – A Maryland Air National Guard recruiter was recognized by the 175th Wing leadership for receiving the Master Sgt. Salvador Torres Memorial Award from the Air Force Recruiting School at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, April 23, 2025.
Maryland Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Tiffany Anstead, a recruiter for the 175th Wing, ...
Read moreWings of Hope: A Special Pilot Experience for Two Young Cancer Fighters at the 175th Wing

By Airman 1st Class Sarah Hoover
175th Wing
MIDDLE RIVER, Md. — The Maryland Air National Guard’s 104th Fighter Squadron hosted two children as honorary pilots as part of the Pilot for a Day program at Warfield Air National Guard Base at Martin State Airport, June 7, 2025.
The Pilot for a Day program, facilitated by the Gold in Fight Foundation, invites children ...
Read moreTask Force Iron, Maryland National Guard join NATO allies in Estonia’s Victory Day Parade

PÄRNU, Estonia — U.S. Army soldiers from Task Force Iron and the Maryland National Guard, along with NATO allies, demonstrated solidarity with Estonia by participating in the Victory Day parade on June 23, 2025.
A color guard team with soldiers from the 5th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division, in support of Task Force Iron, and Guardsmen from the Maryland ...
Read moreBridging Experience and Innovation: A Team Effort in Facilities Upkeep

By Chazz Kibler
Maryland Military Department’s Benjamin Maynard, carpenter for the Installations Office’s Facilities Sustainment Team, poses for a photo inside the Reckord Lounge’s bar.
BALTIMORE—The Maryland Military Department’s Installations Office’s Facilities Sustainment Team provided repairs to a damaged ceiling and updated the lighting to increase efficiency while conserving power at the Reckord Lounge in the Fifth Regiment Armory in Baltimore. The ...
Read moreMontrose Mansion Receives an Anonymous Donation

Photos and Article by Chazz Kibler
REISTERSTOWN, Md.—Members of the Maryland Military Department’s Maryland Museum of Military History facilitated the curation of items given by an anonymous donor to be displayed at the Montrose Mansion at Camp Fretterd Military Reservation in Reisterstown, Maryland, on June 6, 2025. Over 40 items varying in historical value were curated, ranging from furniture, dinnerware and ...
Read morePrecision and camaraderie highlights 2-gun steel shoot

Story by Sgt. Vail Forbeck 109th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment
FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – Soldiers with the Pennsylvania and Maryland National Guard joined civilian staff in a test of skill and speed at the 2025 2-Gun Steel Shoot here, June 14, 2025.
Twenty competitors faced off in a high-tempo rifle and pistol match that emphasized precision, pressure and camaraderie. Designed as ...
Read moreMaryland Army National Guard supports Immediate Response 25 with partners in Croatia

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Article, photos and Video by U.S. Air National Guard Airman 1st Class Sarah Hoover
KNIN, Croatia – More than 100 Maryland Army National Guard Soldiers trained with the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AFBiH) to support NATO’s large-scale exercise Immediate Response 25 at the Red Land Training Area in Croatia, May 27-June 10, 2025.
The Maryland Army National Guardsmen from the ...
Read moreLethality, precision on display at Bollen Range

By Airman Austin Stern175th Wing
FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. — In a mountain valley of central Pennsylvania, two A-10 Thunderbolt II take to the skies. “Cleared hot!” transmits over the radio. Then comes the unmistakable sound of freedom – brrrt – echoing across the landscape. The operations director for Bollen Range Air-to-Ground Bomb Range, Detachment 1 – part of the 193rd ...
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