Two Wisconsin Army National Guard Soldiers competed in this year’s Best Sapper Competition — a 50-hour gauntlet for combat engineers — at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri.
After a quarter century in uniform, one deployment, too many death notifications and dozens of Strong Bonds relationship events, Col. Doug Hedman — the Wisconsin National Guard’s state chaplain — is calling it a career.After a quarter century in uniform, one deployment, too many death notifications and dozens of Strong Bonds relationship events, Col. Doug Hedman — the Wisconsin National Guard’s state chaplain — is calling it a career.
FORT MCCOY, Wis. — A select group of 20 Soldiers in the Wisconsin Army National Guard competed in the 2021 State Best Warrior Competition April 16-18 at Fort McCoy.
MADISON, Wis. — Maj. Durwood “Hawk” Jones was remembered as a kind, humble, loving, courageous and intelligent man during a memorial service April 17 at the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 115th Fighter Wing. Gen. Daniel Hokanson, National Guard Bureau director, joined senior Wisconsin National Guard leaders, Wisconsin Air National Guard members and family and friends at the memorial, which concluded with a “missing man formation” flyover by pilots from the 115th Fighter Wing and the Oregon Air National Guard’s 123rd Fighter Squadron.
FORT MCCOY, Wis. — Before the sun crested the horizon this morning, 20 Wisconsin Army National Guard Soldiers began a grueling three-day gauntlet known as the Best Warrior Competition.
MADISON, Wis. — The 115th Fighter Wing awarded the first of 19 military construction contracts to local building company, J.H. Findorff & Sons, in preparation for the F-35 Lightning II beddown at the Madison-based unit.
MADISON, Wis. — F-16s from the 115th Fighter Wing’s 176th Fighter Squadron and F-15s from the Oregon Air National Guard’s 123rd Fighter Squadron will conduct a missing man formation flyover as an aerial salute to fallen 115th Fighter Wing pilot Maj. Durwood “Hawk” Jones, who perished in an F-16 crash in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula late last year.
VOLK FIELD, Wis. — Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center, known for lighting up the skies with the annual Northern Lightning exercise, hosted multiple units from around the country for their first exercise of 2021 from March 22 through April 2.
MADISON, Wis. — The Army National Guard’s senior enlisted advisor visited Wisconsin National Guard troops April 10 to discuss the Guard’s unprecedented year of service in 2020 and discuss how the military is changing.
MADISON, Wis. — For the first time in five years Wisconsin Army National Guard Soldiers will have a new senior enlisted advisor to advocate their concerns and issues with the Guard’s top leaders.
