Nevada Army Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion Soldiers salute during a recent event in Northern Nevada. The entire Recruiting and Retention Battalion team is enjoying a successful 2025 retention campaign, having already met 56 percent of its 2025 retention goal.

Nevada Army Guard enjoys healthy retention numbers in 2025
Nevada National Guard recognized at Vegas Chamber’s MAC Night Out
Tech. Sgt. Angela Crawford, center, receives the award for Air Guardsman of the Year from the Las Vegas Chamber during a ceremony at the Westgate Hotel Ballroom in Las Vegas, May 7, 2025. The Las Vegas Chamber recognized three members of the Nevada National Guard during its annual Military Affairs Committee (MAC) Night Out.
May 12, 2025 - Three exceptional members of the Nevada National Guard were honored during the Vegas Chamber’s Military Affairs Committee (MAC) Night Out on May 7, 2025 held at the Westgate Hotel ballroom...
Nevada Army Guard enjoys healthy retention numbers in 2025
Nevada Army Guard Recruiting and Retention Battalion Soldiers salute during a recent event in Northern Nevada. The entire Recruiting and Retention Battalion team is enjoying a successful 2025 retention campaign, having already met 56 percent of its 2025 retention goal.
May 9, 2025 - Midway through Fiscal Year 2025, statistics reveal a robust number of Nevada Army Guard Soldiers are choosing to remain “Battle Born” and extending past their Expiration Term of Service...
Commander: Nevada Guard's High Rollers need upgraded planes for fighting wildfires
Col. Catherine Grush, 152nd Airlift Wing commander
May 9, 2025 - The 152nd Airlift Wing, Nevada Air National Guard, provides a high-caliber military unit here in Reno with a history dating back to 1948. The High Rollers — starting with P-51 fighters in the late-1940s to reconnaissance with...
Dignitaries, Nevada state partner Samoa, learn National Guard operations
Participants in the State Department's International Visitor Leadership Program visit the Pentagon to learn about the National Guard's role in emergency response and crisis management, May 7, 2025.
May 7, 2025 - Josephina Chan Ting, principal disaster risk reduction officer from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Samoa, was one of the participants. Samoa doesn't have a military of its own, but the nation partnered...
Air Guard Units Join Forces for Aerial Wildfire Suppression Training
A C-130 (MAFFS 9) from Nevada Air National Guard's 152nd Airlift Wing performs a water drop April 24, 2025, during Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) Spring Training 2025, hosted by the California Air National Guard's 146th Airlift Wing. This particular part of the training was conducted in the Angeles National Forest near Green Valley, California from April 21-27, 2025. Training included classroom sessions, flying and ground operations for Air Force aircrews, civilian lead plane pilots and support personnel from the USDA Forest Service, other federal agencies and CAL FIRE. First Air Force (Air Forces Northern), U.S. Northern Command's Air Component, is the DoD's operational lead for the aerial military wildland fire fighting response.
April 29, 2025 - Military and civilian flight crews wrapped up a week of aerial wildfire suppression training on April 27, concluding the annual Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems spring training at Channel Islands Air National Guard...
Nevada Army Guard supports WWII veteran's repatriation funeral ceremony
U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert D. McKee pictured back row, second from left. McKee, a Soldier killed during World War II, will be interred noon Friday at Southern Nevada Veterans Memorial Cemetery in southern Nevada during a repatriation funeral ceremony.
April 3, 2025 - U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Robert D. McKee's delayed funeral highlighted the lack of access to the area in East Germany following the fall of the Iron Curtain during the Cold War and the persistence of the U.S. Army’s...
State subgrant saves Nevada’s STARBASE—for now
Students from Nevada’s first Department of Defense (DoD) STARBASE program get a tour of a C-130 aircraft March 16, 2022 at the Nevada Air National Guard Base in Reno, Nev. Created in 1991, STARBASE’s primary focus is to foster a passion of learning in the field of science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) in fifth graders attending Title 1 schools.
March 4, 2025 - STARBASE, the Nevada National Guard’s Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) learning program for Title 1 schools, will remain open for nine months thanks to a subgrant through the Nevada Department of...
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