{"id":1593,"date":"2013-06-06T18:20:14","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T18:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/?p=1593"},"modified":"2017-07-19T18:33:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T18:33:18","slug":"employer-support-of-the-guard-and-reserve-bosslift-to-pax-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/2013\/06\/06\/employer-support-of-the-guard-and-reserve-bosslift-to-pax-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Bosslift to Pax River"},"content":{"rendered":"

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=”1599″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center” css_animation=”fadeIn” css=”.vc_custom_1500488741831{margin: 0px !important;border-width: 0px !important;padding: 0px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn” css=”.vc_custom_1500488771523{margin-bottom: 0px !important;border-bottom-width: 0px !important;padding-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Lt. Col. Charles Kohler, Maryland National Guard Public Affairs Office[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css_animation=”fadeIn”]\"\"The Maryland Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve committee hosted a Bosslift June 6, 2013, for 17 employers, who had the opportunity to visit members of the Guard during their annual training at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.<\/p>\n

The Soldiers are with Company A, 1st Detachment, 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment, a Tactical Unmanned Aerial Vehicle unit headquartered at Webster Field in Southern Maryland. The TUAS is designed as a Brigade Commander\u2019s primary day\/night reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition, and battle damage assessment system and improves situational awareness of action on the ground. The Soldiers operate and maintain the Shadow 200 aircraft, a relatively new system fielded around the world manufactured by AAI Corporation in Hunt Valley, Md.<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cThis is a great opportunity for the employers to see how the military operates,\u201d said Maj. Gen. James A. Adkins, the adjutant general of Maryland. \u201cEmployers gain a new appreciation for commitment and dedication it takes to serve.\u201d<\/p>\n

The detachment was formed in 2003 and, deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in 2004 where they accumulated more than 1,600 flight hours in theater. The Soldiers deployed again in June of 2011 to support Operation Enduring Freedom in Helmand Province, Afghanistan where they supported several Marine units and achieved close to 2,500 flight hours. During this deployment there were several \u2018firsts\u2019 such as: over the horizon target lasing for precision munitions, UAV footage that led to a 4,000 lb. drug bust, joint TUAS operations between the Army and Marine Corps
\nESGR was established in 1972 as a Department of Defense organization to promote cooperation and understanding between reserve component members (National Guard and Reserve) and their civilian employers and to assist in the resolution of conflicts arising from an employee\u2019s military commitment.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Maryland Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve committee hosted a Bosslift June 6, 2013, for 17 employers, who had the opportunity to visit members of the Guard during their annual training at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Md.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":1599,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[412,410,409,411,415,413,414],"class_list":["post-1593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-maryland-line","category-news","tag-278th-armored-cavalry-regiment","tag-bosslift","tag-maryland-employer-support-of-the-guard-and-reserve","tag-naval-air-station-patuxent-river","tag-shadow-200-aircraft","tag-tactical-unmanned-aerial-vehicle","tag-webster-field"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1593"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1602,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1593\/revisions\/1602"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}