May 20—State leaders are unable to say how many members of the Ohio National Guard would be impacted by an Air Force plan to pull some members into the U.S. Space Force. In April, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine asked President Biden to withdraw a proposal that would incorporate Guard members into Space Force. In response […]
LA GRULLA, Texas (AP) — A helicopter flying over the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas crashed Friday, killing two National Guard soldiers and a Border Patrol agent, the military said. Another soldier on board was injured. The UH-72 Lakota helicopter was assigned to the federal government’s border security mission when it went down near Rio Grande […]
Russia has deployed about 35,000 National Guardsmen to Ukraine’s occupied territories as of January 2024, the Special Operations Forces’ National Resistance Center reported on Jan. 7, citing information from Ukrainian partisans. Read also: Russian National Guard targeting children in occupied Ukraine in disgusting propaganda campaign The National Guard of Russia, or Rosgvardia, is the second […]
The 27th Pechersk Brigade’s mobile air defense fire unit shot down an enemy cruise missile in Kyiv Oblast with nothing more than machine guns during the massive Russian attack on Ukraine on Dec. 29, the National Guard reported on Facebook on Dec. 30. The unit detected the target moving towards Kyiv and opened fire on […]
Indiana’s more than 12,000 National Guardsmen will no longer pay state taxes for their service-related income beginning with their 2023 tax returns. A state law — House Bill 1034 — is in effect and, according to a news release from the Indiana National Guard, the tax exemption applies to the traditional weekend Hoosier Guardsmen, the […]