Posted on September 24th, 2021 by Sebastian Nemec
September 23, 2021 (CAMP RIPLEY, Minnesota) – Members of the Minnesota National Guard, Camp Ripley employees and Norwegian Home Guard Soldiers welcomed students and tribal members to Camp Ripley, Sept. 21, 2021, for a day of cultural exchange during the third annual Planting for the Future event. “This event is an evolution of ideas from
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Posted on September 22nd, 2021 by Sebastian Nemec
September 20, 2021 (CAMP RIPLEY, Minnesota) — Camp Ripley hosted its Open House September 19, 2021. The event, which occurs every two years, gives the public an opportunity to experience military life for a day. The Open house is a great tradition that has been running for 30 years. “This is one of our most
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Posted on September 21st, 2021 by Sebastian Nemec
September 20, 2021 (ST. PAUL, Minnesota) — It has been ten years since the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy was repealed. Since September 20, 2011, the Department of Defense cannot discharge service members solely based on sexual orientation. “I joined the Army thinking I would never be able to love anyone, never be able to
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Posted on September 17th, 2021 by Sebastian Nemec
September 13, 2021 (BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota) — The Beyond the Yellow Ribbon Program of Minnesota welcomed its 80th company into the network this week with the dedication of Donaldson Company, Inc. Headquartered in Bloomington, Minnesota, Donaldson hosted an outdoor celebration on September 13, 2021, with employees and members of the community to commemorate the Yellow Ribbon
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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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