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Nevada Army Guard enjoys healthy retention numbers in 2025
May 9, 2025 — Midway through Fiscal Year 2025, statistics reveal a robust number of Nevada Army Guard Soldiers are choosing to remain “Battle Born” and extending past their Expiration Term of Service... MORE

Nevada Army Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion Soldiers salute during a recent event in Northern Nevada. The entire Recruiting and Retention Battalion team is enjoying a successful 2025 retention campaign, having already met 56 percent of its 2025 retention goal.

Commander: Nevada Guard's High Rollers need upgraded planes for fighting wildfires
May 9, 2025 — The 152nd Airlift Wing, Nevada Air National Guard, provides a high-caliber military unit here in Reno with a history dating back to 1948. The High Rollers — starting with P-51 fighters in the late-1940s to reconnaissance with F-101 and F-4 jets (1965-1995) and eventually cargo and transport with C-130 Hercules (1995-present) — represent a long-standing institution here in the Biggest Little City... MORE

Col. Catherine Grush, 152nd Airlift Wing commander

Dignitaries, Nevada state partner Samoa, learn National Guard operations
May 7, 2025 — Josephina Chan Ting, principal disaster risk reduction officer from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Samoa, was one of the participants. Samoa doesn't have a military of its own, but the nation partnered with the Nevada National Guard through the SPP, and Chan Ting said it's a valuable asset for the island nation... MORE

A large group of people in business attire stand in front of a wall that reads, "The Department of Defense."

Air Guard Units Join Forces for Aerial Wildfire Suppression Training
April 29, 2025 — Military and civilian flight crews wrapped up a week of aerial wildfire suppression training on April 27, concluding the annual Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems spring training at Channel Islands Air National Guard Station in southern California... MORE

A C-130 (MAFFS 9) from Nevada Air National Guard's 152nd Airlift Wing performs a water drop April 24, 2025, during Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) Spring Training 2025, hosted by the California Air National Guard's 146th Airlift Wing.

Nevada Army Guard supports WWII veteran's repatriation funeral ceremony
April 3, 2025 — U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert D. McKee's delayed funeral highlighted the lack of access to the area in East Germany following the fall of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War and the persistence of the U.S. Army’s repatriation efforts with use of DNA evidence during the past two decades... MORE

U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert D. McKee pictured back row, second from left.

State subgrant saves Nevada’s STARBASE—for now
March 4, 2025 — STARBASE, the Nevada National Guard’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) learning program for Title 1 schools, will remain open for nine months thanks to a subgrant through the Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation (DETR)... MORE

Students from Nevada’s first Department of Defense (DoD) STARBASE program get a tour of a C-130 aircraft March 16, 2022 at the Nevada Air National Guard Base in Reno, Nev. Created in 1991, STARBASE’s primary focus is to foster a passion of learning in the field of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in fifth graders attending Title 1 schools.

Nevada ATAG named Army Guard's CASCOM deputy commanding general
February 14, 2025 — Brig. Gen. Troy Armstrong, Assistant Adjutant General, Nevada Army National Guard, has been selected by the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to serve as the Army National Guard Deputy Commanding General at the U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)/Sustainment Center of Excellence, Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia... MORE

Brig. Gen. Troy Armstrong, Assistant Adjutant General, Nevada Army National Guard, has been selected by the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to serve as the Army National Guard Deputy Commanding General at the U.S. Army Combined Arms Support Command (CASCOM)/Sustainment Center of Excellence, Fort Gregg-Adams, Virginia.

Nevada Air Guard officer’s D.C. tour encounters presidential funeral, inauguration, crisis response
February 5, 2025 — Lt. Col. Jennifer-Ruth Green, Nevada Air National Guard, entered an active-duty assignment last fall that would throw her into some of the most high-profile and challenging operations of her career... MORE

Lt. Col. Jennifer-Ruth Green attends the Commander-In-Chief inaugural ball at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20, 2025.

Nevada Guard Airlift Wing Assists with Operation Deep Freeze
February 4, 2025 — CHRISTCHURCH, New Zealand - The 152nd Airlift Wing “High Rollers” from the Nevada Air National Guard achieved a historic first by participating in Operation Deep Freeze.The High Rollers supported the annual U.S. military mission in Antarctica by flying augmented max duty day missions, logging over 30 hours in three days in December. The operation... MORE

The Nevada Air National Guard's High Rollers arrive in Antarctica Dec. 18, 2024, to support the annual U.S. military mission in Antarctica. They flew augmented max duty day missions, logging over 30 hours in three days.

Military service in Nevada Legislature highlights state service, bipartisanship
January 29, 2025 — With the Nevada Legislative Session set to start next week and last through June, a quick look at military service among those in state legislature shows a bipartisan pull from service members... MORE

Michelee “Shelly” Cruz-Crawford, a first lieutenant in the Nevada Air National Guard and State Senator in the Nevada Legislature poses for a photo at her desk in the Nevada Senate, Jan. 14, 2025. Cruz-Crawford was elected to the Nevada State Senate last November and is set to take part in her first State Legislative Session, which opens Monday, Feb. 3, and lasts through June.