Incomplete list of National Guard deployments, and other deployment related news, reported between 11 and 31 March, 2023. For the rest of March see below.
CALIFORNIA:
California National Guard photo by Staff Sergeant Crystal Housman, 17MAR2023.
Army National Guard air crews prepared for the upcoming wildfire season, along with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire).
FLORIDA:
Florida Air National Guard photo by Technical Sergeant Chelsea Smith.
The Sunshine State’s 125th Fighter Wing conducted a deployment readiness exercise to prepare for future deployments scheduled this year.
Florida Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Jacob Hancock, 11MAR2023.
The 125th also conducted Search and Rescue (SaR) training on Camp Blanding.
ILLINOIS:
Illinois National Guard photo by Lieutenant Colonel Bradford Leighton, 12MAR2023.
Army National Guard’s 404th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade celebrated their return from an 11-month deployment to Djibouti, on the African continent.
MISSISSIPPI: Army National Guard mechanics (185th Aviation Brigade) are on Fort Hood, Texas, learning how to repair UH-60 rotary wings for deployment;
NEBRASKA: 13 state militia personnel deployed to Ukraine;
NEW YORK/NEW JERSEY: Five New York Army National Guard officer candidates are heading to Albania in April, they are deploying with the New Jersey Army National Guard for a two weeks training event. The New Jersey National Guard has had a State Partnership Program relationship with Albania since 1993.
OKLAHOMA: Army Guard militia personnel are on Fort Riley, Kansas, supporting units that are deploying to Africa. Those units include more than 1-thousand state militia personnel from Oklahoma, Nebraska and Indiana;
Infantry units with the Oklahoma Army National Guard are also being deployed as part of Task Force Tomahawk. Video, by Staff Sergeant John Stoner, showing Oklahoma militia personnel of 1st Battalion-179th Infantry Regiment-45th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, taking part in boring ‘pre-deployment’ infantry patrol training on Fort Riley, Kansas, 25MAR2023:
SOUTH CAROLINA:
South Carolina Army National Guard photo by Sergeant Tim Andrews, 18MAR2023.
Army National Guard Soldiers with the 678th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, 263rd Army Air & Missile Defense Command, returned home after a 12-month anti-Russia deployment to NATO-Europe.
SOUTH DAKOTA: Three Army Guard firefighters deployed to NATO-Romania;
TENNESSEE: The body of Army militiaman Chief Warrant Officer-3 Daniel Wadham was finally returned home. In February, he was killed while flying a helicopter over Alabama, the crash is still being investigated;
WISCONSIN:
U.S. Army photo by Scott T. Sturkol, 13MAR2023.
On Fort McCoy a time capsule was uncovered inside one of the walls in a barracks. It was left there by the Kentucky Army National Guard’s 617th Military Police Company just as they were deploying to Iraq, in November 2004. The time capsule was actually found towards the end of 2022, but not made public until 13MAR2023 (after proper authorities, and the Kentucky Army National Guard, were notified).
