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MDARNG Supports Region II Best Warrior Competition with Warm Meals, Rapid Transport and More
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 ...
Read moreMaryland National Guard conducts historic promotion in Tunisia during African Lion 2024
Story by Dr. 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 ...
Read moreMaryland Air Guard cyber operators support DEFENDER 24 along with NATO counterparts
Story by Staff Sgt. Laura Virtue
TALLINN, Estonia – Cyber defenders from the Maryland Air National Guard partnered with Estonian Defense Forces Cyber Command and Poland Cyber Command to facilitate a multi-national cyber exercise based at operating locations in Tallinn, Estonia, and Warsaw, Poland, as part of the U.S. Army’s Exercise Defender 24, May 4-16, 2024.
More than 50 Airmen from the ...
Read more2024 Region II Best Warrior Competition Kicks Off
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.
Read moreMaryland National Guard Participates in a Annual Homeland Defense and Disaster Response Exercise
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 ...
Read moreMaryland National Guard and University of Maryland Eastern Shore establish Educational Partnership
PRINCESS ANNE, Md — The University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) and the Maryland Army National Guard (MDARNG) entered into an official educational partnership on Wednesday, May 1st, 2024.
The partnership centers on an educational mentorship partnership program with UMES’s Department of Engineering and Aviation Sciences. Both organizations will benefit from enhanced collaboration in the world of aviation and furthering ...
Read moreUniversity of Maryland Global Campus celebrates graduates, 75 years in Europe at Ramstein commencement
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 ...
Read more2024 Maryland National Guard Best Warrior Competition
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 ...
Read moreA ‘Hello Girl’ recognized
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 ...
Read moreMaryland National Guard responds to brush fire at Loch Raven Reservoir
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 ...
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