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, ...

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 ...