From more than 1,500 miles away, about 10 Maryland National Guard and Maryland Defense Force personnel went operational Jan. 15, 2020, at Camp Fretterd Military Reservation in Reisterstown, Maryland, to support earthquake recovery efforts in Puerto Rico with a joint Unclassified Processing, Analysis and Dissemination (UPAD) team.

As a new decade begins, so comes a new symbol depicting the Maryland National Guard’s future focus in a competitive global environment.

Nearly 200 Soldiers from the Maryland Army National Guard’s 729th Quartermaster Composite Supply Company deployed to Poland, and surrounding areas, for nine months in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve on Dec. 28, 2019.

Article and photos by Maj. Cody Starken, 58th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade Edgewood, Md. – Light switches flipped to on, seats straightened dress right dress, and tables cleaned before the doors swing open and hungry Soldiers file into the chow hall for their only hot meal for the day. The smell of food and the distinct sounds of Soldiers eating replaced the ...

Article and photos by Maj. Cody Starken, 58th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade Edgewood, Md. – The process of units preparing for deployment involves a lot of operational and training tasks set by the U.S. Army to ensure they are ready to deploy to specific mission areas. The 58th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Brigade and the 629th Expeditionary Military Intelligence Battalion spent Dec. 13-19, ...

A ceremony held in Baltimore City to honor the deployment of about 200 members of the Maryland Army National Guard’s 729th Composite Supply Company assigned to the BG Thomas B. Baker Readiness Center located in Ellicott City, Md. The Soldiers will deploy to Poland in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve for nine months to provide logistical support operations within the ...

Author: U.S. Army National Guard Maj. Aaron M. Testa, Public Affairs Officer, 110th Information Operations Battalion Photos by: U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Isolda Reyes; U.S. Army National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Thaddeus Harrington The 110th Information Operations Battalion held its third annual Information Operations and Cyber Operations Symposium at the Annapolis Readiness Center, here, Nov. 17. Three years in, ...

Author: U.S. Army National Guard Maj. Kurt Rauschenberg Photos by: U.S. Army National Guard Maj. Kurt Rauschenberg The season of giving is here and with it brought about 100 soldiers of the Maryland National Guard’s 581st Troop Command who took to the downtown streets of Hagerstown Dec 8 to embark on a three-mile road march providing some extra joy to the community! Busing ...

Author: U.S. Army National Guard Maj. Kurt Rauschenberg Photos by: U.S. Army National Guard Maj. Kurt Rauschenberg Remembrance, reform, and unity was reflected upon once again as the Bosnia-Herzegovina embassy hosted the 14th annual Armed Forces Day celebration Dec. 5 in the District of Columbia. Each year, the celebration recognizes the 2005 unification of the Bosniak-Croat Army of the Federation of Bosnia-Herzegovina and the ...

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, ...