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Multiple units with Wisconsin’s Army National Guard and Air National Guard combined July 27 to hold a practice session of their airshow event at the Sparta-Fort McCoy Airport at Fort McCoy.
MADISON, Wis. – Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen from the Wisconsin National Guard have helped local health departments administer more than 60,000 vaccines across Wisconsin since establishing the ...
Command Sgt. Maj. Bradley Shields, the Wisconsin Army National Guard's senior enlisted advisor, once served with the 101st while on active duty in the 1970s. At the time, there was a wide gulf ...
WAUSAU, Wis. (WSAW) - Between the pandemic, stricter requirements and low unemployment, the Wisconsin Army National Guard has been struggling to hit its recruiting target. Now, that could be changing.
MADISON, Wis. — The Wisconsin Army National Guard hosted a changing of the guard ceremony Friday afternoon in Madison. Brig. Gen. Matthew Strub succeeded retiring Brig. Gen. Joane Mathews as ...
By early May, some 1,400 Wisconsin National Guard members had been called up, mostly for testing duties, eventually splitting into 25 collection teams spaced out across the state.
In his 1939 Historical Sketch of the Wisconsin National Guard, Lt. Col. Byron Beveridge wrote that Wisconsin had 52 militia companies comprised of 1,993 men prior to the Civil War.
The Wisconsin National Guard is simultaneously playing a major role in the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic with more than 600 troops on duty to run COVID-19 testing sites across ...
Sgt. Andrew Pieper, a Soldier with the 273rd Engineer Company, performs tactical combat casualty care on a mannequin during the Wisconsin Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition at Fort McCoy.
Since 2000, Wisconsin National Guard units have rarely fallen short of Army goals for training, equipment and staffing — signaling they were capable of answering calls to combat or domestic crises.
MILWAUKEE – On a sunny November day in 2018, hundreds of Wisconsin Army National Guard members crowded into the atrium at Green Bay’s Lambeau Field. The soldiers would soon deploy to ...