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Maj. Gen. Paul Knapp, Wisconsin’s adjutant general, and other senior Wisconsin National Guard officials welcomed home approximately 260 Soldiers of the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade at Dane County Regional Airport July 29, 2023. The 157th returned from a nine-month deployment to Djibouti, Africa, in support of Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa.

Aug. 1, 2023

Wisconsin Guard Unit Returns Home From Africa Deployment

MADISON, Wis. - More than 250 Soldiers from the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade returned to Wisconsin after a nine-month deployment to Camp Lemonnier in Djibouti to support Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa. A large gathering of family and friends — many fighting back tears while holding signs, pictures of

South Dakota Army National Guard Soldiers with the 153rd Engineer Battalion and 211th Engineer Company participate in a breach-of-a-complex-obstacle training event July 17, 2023, at Fort McCoy, Wis. The large-scale training event included opposing forces, obstacles and simulated explosive actions.

July 26, 2023

South Dakota’s 153rd Engineer Battalion Trains at Fort McCoy

FORT MCCOY, Wis. - The 153rd Engineer Battalion with the South Dakota Army National Guard and its corresponding units convoyed with 90 vehicles and equipment to Fort McCoy July 8-19 for annual training. “I brought units from Huron and Madison, S.D. — three different companies — here to Fort McCoy this summer to train for annual training,” said Lt.

Aurora BayCare Medical Center professionals and Soldiers from the medevac assets of the Wisconsin Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 147th Aviation Regiment unload a mock patient from a UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter at Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay, Wis., June 22.

July 21, 2023

Wisconsin Guard Trains with Hospital on Patient Transport

GREEN BAY, Wis. — For the past few months, Wisconsin Army National Guard aviation Soldiers have partnered with Aurora BayCare Medical Center to conduct training to provide a higher level of care for critically ill patients being transported by UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters. “This helps train nurses for future partnerships if we ever needed to

U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Christopher P. Callahan, adjutant general of the Rhode Island National Guard, poses a question for members of a panel highlighting the future of the Department of Defense National Guard State Partnership Program during the program’s 30th-anniversary conference at National Harbor, Maryland, July 18, 2023.

July 20, 2023

Future Vision: Panel Discusses Way Ahead for DOD National Guard State Partnership Program

NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – As the Department of Defense and National Guard State Partnership Program celebrated its 30th anniversary, U.S. and international senior leaders and officials from 93 of the SPP’s 100 partner nations attended a panel discussion highlighting aspirational goals for the program and a vision for the way ahead. Panel members

First Lt. Apiwit B. Chulawan, an officer with the Wisconsin Army Naitonal Guard’s 829th Engineer Vertical Construction Company, salutes Maj. Gen. Paul Knapp, Wisconsin’s adjutant general, after being awarded the Soldier’s Medal during a July 9, 2023, ceremony in Spooner, Wis. Chulawan was a passenger on a train that derailed in 2021 and helped aid injured passengers.

July 11, 2023

Wisconsin Guardsman Honored for Aiding Derailment Victims

MADISON, Wis. - A Wisconsin Army National Guard officer who helped victims of a train derailment in Joplin, Montana, in 2021 received the Soldier’s Medal in a July 9 ceremony at Spooner, Wisconsin.The Soldier’s Medal, established in 1926, is awarded to any person of the U.S. armed forces or of a friendly foreign nation who, while serving in any

U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft assigned to the 127th Wing, Michigan National Guard, fly in formation behind a KC-135 Stratotanker assigned to the 128th Air Refueling Wing, Wisconsin National Guard, June 5, 2023. Exercise Air Defender integrates U.S. and allied air-power to defend shared values, while leveraging and strengthening vital partnerships to deter aggression around the world.

June 12, 2023

128th Air Refueling Wing Supports Air Defender 2023 Exercise

NAVAL AIR STATION KEFLAVIK, Iceland – The 128th Air Refueling Wing helped facilitate an air bridge leading to exercise Air Defender 2023, the German-led, live-fly NATO exercise with 235 aircraft from 25 nations and over 10,000 personnel throughout Europe June 12-23. The 128 ARW KC-135 tankers acted as a flying gas station, using a boom system to