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McConville: ‘We Can’t do What we do as an Army Without the National Guard’
August 28, 2022 — COLUMBUS, Ohio – The Army is transforming, modernizing, boosting readiness, improving fitness across the force, and investing in potential recruits, the chief of staff of the Army said in wide-ranging remarks here Saturday.But, first, Army Gen. James McConville heaped praise on a National Guard he said is essential to the Army, overseas and in the... MORE

“Every time we have asked, the National Guard has been ‘Always Ready, Always There’," Army Gen. James McConville, chief of staff of the Army, told National Guard leaders meeting in Columbus, Ohio, Aug. 27, 2022.

Eagle Brigade, 88th Readiness Division lead success of Paralegal Warrior Training Course
August 26, 2022 — More than 35 Soldiers from over 30 Army commands participated in the annual Paralegal Warrior Training Course July 14-29, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin. The PWTC allows paralegal Soldiers the opportunity to achieve unit training readiness requirements by demonstrating individual and collective task proficiency across peace and wartime missions... MORE

Soldiers with First Army’s 181st Infantry Brigade provide OC/T support during CSTX
August 22, 2022 — Soldiers from First Army Division West’s 181st Infantry Brigade provided observer coach/trainer support to Reserve Component units during a Combat Support Training Exercise conducted here the first three weeks of August. The exercise put the units through the planning, preparation, supervising, and execution of pre-mobilization collective training, through scenarios that mimicked real-world conditions. The exercise further prepared and validated the units to deploy quickly and to meet and engage adversaries worldwide. ... MORE

Observer, Coach/ Trainers partner with Joint Fires Observers during Northern Strike 22-2
August 16, 2022 — Observer, Coach/ Trainers from the Army National Guard’s Operations Group Wolf recently partnered with joint fires observers (JFO) from the Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio Army National Guards, the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, and U.S. Army Special Forces during Northern Strike 22-2.These exercises, and the partnerships within, give reserve... MORE

Sgt. 1st Class Ron Hesson, Army National Group Operations Group Wolf Fire Support Team senior observer, coach/trainer, observes Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 134th Field Artillery Regiment, 37th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, during a call for fire mission at Northern Strike 2022 on August 9, 2022, at Camp Grayling, Michigan.

Pershing Strike tests total Army mobilization capabilities
August 9, 2022 — Pershing Strike kicked off in July as the most sizable, large scale mobilization exercise to date at the historic Camp Shelby in Mississippi... MORE

U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers, assigned to the 344th Engineer Company based in Tallahassee, Florida, take cover behind a blast blanket while detonating a linear det charge placed on a door hinge to create an entry point during the Pershing Strike mobilization exercise.

First Army, Virginia National Guard complete support of XCTC at Fort Drum
August 9, 2022 — Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 3647th Maintenance Company and the 1033rd Engineer Company successfully completed their support of a New Jersey National Guard brigade’s XCTC rotation July 30, 2022, at Fort Drum, New York. ... MORE

1033rd Engineer Co. conducts obstacle breaching during XCTC at Fort Drum

First Army Father Son Duo
August 5, 2022 — First Army considers itself a family; that is no more evident than with the father son duo of Jeff and Jacob Weber. The father, Jeff joined the Army in 1987, his son Jacob joined in 2009.Both Jeff and Jacob are staff sergeants. Jeff serves as G3-Operational Readiness noncommissioned officer. In this capacity, he ensures deploying Soldiers are on... MORE

Driving the lanes to Army readiness
August 3, 2022 — The training supports Army Strategic Readiness, which is the ability to mobilize and project power into contested environments, and the ability to sustain forces in large-scale combat operations... MORE

Pershing Strike 22: First Army partners with Reserve Component units for mobilization exercise
August 2, 2022 — In the event of a full-scale war, the United States will need multiple installations up and running to get Reserve Component units into the fight. With that in mind, First Army has joined its enterprise partners and Reserve Component units for Pershing Strike 22, an exercise which tests the ability to stand up a Mobilization Force Generation Installation... MORE

WAREX builds readiness for Army Reserve and OC/Ts
July 27, 2022 — The U.S. Army Reserve’s Warrior Exercise 78-22-02, conducted at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, through the month of July, brought units and Soldiers from across the country to build on their readiness levels... MORE

U.S. Army Reserve Sgt. Baylee Jones, standing, Observer Coach Trainer, observes how Spc. Jalen Middleton, bottom left, truck driver for the 630th Transportation Company, gives a Nine-Line Medical Evacuation during medical lane training at Warrior Exercise 78 at Fort McCoy, Wisconsin, July 19, 2022.

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