by Frank Yoakum | May 25, 2016 | National Guard, Politics
Problems related to the Army National Guard Recruiting Assistance Program (G-RAP) resulted in the largest criminal investigation in the US Army to date. However, the results of the investigation do not justify the means. On Sunday, May 22, 2016, CBS aired a story on...
by Mark Wasserbauer | May 23, 2016 | National Guard, Politics
By Brady Slater on May 21, 2016 at 10:34 p.m. Duluth News Tribune Thanks to the miracle of Photoshop, there exists already in Col. Jon Safstrom’s office a framed picture of an F-35 stealth warplane bearing on its tail the bulldog logo of the 148th Fighter Wing....
by John Harris | May 20, 2016 | National, National Guard, News, Politics, Veterans
WASHINGTON (May 20, 2016) — The Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States today released the following statement by Sgt. Maj. (ret) Frank Yoakum, the EANGUS Executive Director. The Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States,...
by | May 2, 2016 | National, News, Politics
H.R. 4909 the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 passed favorably out of the House Armed Services Committee (HASC) with a vote of 60 to 2. In all the committee markup process took nearly seventeen hours. Overview There are provisions in the bill...
by Mark Wasserbauer | Apr 3, 2016 | Benefits, National Guard, News, Politics, Technician
By: TOM PHILPOTT Military Update March 13, 2016 Updated: March 13, 2016 at 8:10 am Sen. Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Senate armed services subcommittee on military personnel, signaled Tuesday that he will support a plan to allow drilling Reserve and Guard members...
by John Harris | Mar 1, 2016 | National, National Guard, News, Politics, Uncategorized
The National Guard continues to be the target of doing more with less. While there is an effort to remove the Apaches from the National Guard, something that is adamantly opposed by the National Guard and this Association, there is also the call to use the National...
