By Staff Sgt. Rachel Underwood Maryland Air National Guard Capt. Allison Fleming, 175th Wing Outstanding Airman of the Year for the company grade officer category, Maryland Air National Guard, receives a plaque at Martin State Air National Guard Base, Middle River, Maryland, Jan. 7, 2024. The annual event honors the outstanding achievements of the Maryland Air National Guard and names the ...

After four days of competition, Spc. Carter Cooper and Staff Sgt. Alexander Wilkinson-Johnson were named the National Guard Bureau’s Region Il Best Warriors for 2024 in the soldier of the year and non-commissioned officer categories during the closing ceremony at Aberdeen Proving Ground-Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland, on May 10, 2024.

Story by Staff Sgt. Chazz Kibler  BALTIMORE — For the first time in four years, the Maryland Army National Guard hosted competitors from five states and one district for the 2024 National Guard Bureau Region II Best Warrior Competition, a four-day competition consisting of 18 events spanning from eastern Maryland to West Virginia from May 7 – 10, 2024. Competitors represent a ...

Story by Julie Shively BEN GHILOUF, Tunisia – When U.S. Army 1st Lt. Ana Camacho Tibaquira deployed to Tunisia for exercise African Lion 2024 (AL24) with the Maryland National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment (1-175th IN), she assumed that her promotion to captain would simply be a rank swap. U.S. Army Maj. Sean Gramm, battalion executive officer and Sgt. ...

The 2024 National Guard Bureau Region II Best Warrior Competition kicked off today with 10 Soldiers and non-commissioned officers from Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C., all competing to become Region II’s next best warrior.

By 1st Lt. Jasmine Mathews FORT CARSON, Colo. – Over 45 Maryland National Guard soldiers provided public affairs and logistics support during Vibrant Response 24 at Fort Carson, Colorado, April 19 to May 3. VR is an annual U.S. Army North, U. S. Northern Command – directed Command Post exercise planned in coordination with the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland ...

Story by Jennifer H. Svan Army National Guard Spc. Jennifer Egbe is the first soldier deployed to Powidz Air Base in Poland to attend University of Maryland Global Campus Europe graduation ceremonies. The school held its spring commencement on Saturday, April 27, 2024, at Ramstein Air Base, Germany. Egbe, who earned a bachelor’s in communications, drove to Germany from Poland for ...

By Maj. Erica Mitchell, 29th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment BALTIMORE – After five days of competition, three Maryland Army National Guard Soldiers were named 2024’s Best Warriors in the officer, non-commissioned officer and soldier of the year categories during the Maryland National Guard Best Warrior Competition closing ceremony at the Fifth Regiment Armory. Spc. Jordan Foster and Staff Sgt. Alexander Wilkinson-Johnson, both ...

By Sgt. 1st Class Aaron Heft This past week the Maryland National Guard Honor Guard provided burial honors for a reinternment of one of the nation’s earliest female veterans. A member of a unit known as the “Hello Girls” Marie Edmee LeRoux was a trailblazing female pioneer in the U.S. Army in World War I. Nearly 105 years after she left ...

GLEN ARM, Md. (April 24, 2024) – A Maryland Army National Guard helicopter supporting aerial firefighting operations helped suppress an approximately six-acre brush fire in Baltimore County within the Loch Raven watershed. Civil authorities requested support from the Maryland National Guard and the 29th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade on Tuesday evening after the 2-alarm fire. One UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter with ...