ARLINGTON, Va. — When Hurricane Helene struck North Carolina in late 2024, aircrews from 1st Battalion, 169th Aviation Regiment, Connecticut Army National Guard, were among the first to respond.

This year was unusually busy for Army and Air National Guard personnel, with deployments to support natural disaster response and recovery and crime prevention and federal protection missions. The ...

ALBANY, N.Y. -- Eighteen New York Army Guard Soldiers, who link the Guard’s Homeland Response Force with state officials in an emergency, got a first-hand look at New York’s disaster response nerve ...

Western Washington state got hit hard by a run of atmospheric river storms that turned rivers into hazards and neighborhoods into evacuation zones. The response moved fast because it had to. On Dec.

Rather than acting as substitute police, guard medics could help save lives by backing up strained local emergency responders ...