Posted on September 17th, 2021 by Sebastian Nemec
September 17, 2021 (COTTAGE GROVE, Minnesota) — A love of military medicine started from an early age and became a military career for 26 years and for the Minnesota National Guard’s Office of the State Surgeon’s noncommissioned officer in charge, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Samuel Williams. Williams developed and trained Soldiers as well as future
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Posted on September 14th, 2021 by Sebastian Nemec
September 10, 2021 (FORT MCCOY, Wisconsin) — In a garrison environment, human-resource specialists in the Army Reserve and National Guard are known for their office work and administrative tasks. On the battlefield, those same service members are Soldiers first. And as Soldiers first, they may be required to perform base defense operations and more along
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Posted on September 13th, 2021 by Sebastian Nemec
September 13, 2021 (SAINT PAUL, Minnesota) – On Sept. 11, 2021, we stood with Minnesotans and the nation at the state capitol complex as we remembered the events on 9/11, twenty years later. The event not only remembered the lives lost on that day, but also service members from Minnesota who made the ultimate sacrifice
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Posted on September 13th, 2021 by Sebastian Nemec
September 13, 2021 (ST. PAUL, Minnesota) — She was driving south of Interstate 35E just south of St. Paul, Minnesota, on a Friday afternoon when out of the corner of her eye, something caught her attention. She looked over and saw that a sedan had driven up an embankment and wedged itself underneath the overpass.
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Posted on September 11th, 2021 by Sebastian Nemec
September 11, 2021 (ST. PAUL, Minnesota) — September 11, 2001, began like any other Tuesday for the Minnesota National Guardsmen and women on duty that day. It wasn’t until later that morning that the gravity of that day sank in and our citizen Soldiers and Airmen went to work securing their state and nation. In
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Posted on September 10th, 2021 by Ben
CAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait – While more than 400 members of Minnesota National Guard’s 1st Combined Arms Battalion, 194th Armor Regiment, known as Task Force 1-194, deployed to Afghanistan in support of evacuation efforts, the Cottage Grove, Minnesota-based Charlie Company, 134th Brigade Support Battalion began preparations to medically screen up to 5,000 Afghans at the unit’s
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Posted on September 2nd, 2021 by Sebastian Nemec
August 20, 2021 (CAMP RIPLEY, Minnesota) — Earlier this spring, the 175th Regional Training Institute at Camp Ripley began its annual Warrant Officer Candidate School (WOCS). There are 11 candidates enrolled this year who are preparing for their final two weeks of training at Camp Atterbury, Indiana this fall. Each year the class reports in
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Posted on August 30th, 2021 by Sebastian Nemec
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Aug. 29, 2021 Falcon Heights, Minn. – The Minnesota State Fair’s tenth Military Appreciation Day will take place Tuesday, August 31, and provide an educational opportunity for all fairgoers to learn about Minnesota’s military community. This year’s theme is honoring the service of the past, present, and future. “The Minnesota State Fair
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Posted on August 25th, 2021 by Ben
Aviators with the Minnesota National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 147th Assault Helicopter Battalion assist local authorities in suppressing the Greenwood Wildfire in northern Minnesota August 25, 2021. Watch at: https://www.dvidshub.net/video/811397/minnesota-aviators-assist-wildfire-suppression-northern-minnesota
