Video by Lt. Col. Keith Moore | Arkansas National Guard Public Affairs Office | 03.04.2017
The 1st Battalion of the 142nd Field Artillery Brigade, Arkansas National Guard, conducts a live fire exercise using their multiple Launch Rocket System (MLRS) at the Ft. Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center, near Barling, Arkansas, on March 4. The rockets fired from the system are training rounds, not explosive, and those rounds have a maximum range of nearly 15 kilometers....
Photo by Lt. Col. Keith Moore | Arkansas National Guard Public Affairs Office | 07.27.2015
A female soldier with the Arkansas National Guard’s Recruiting Command fires on a designated target during pistol live-fire training at Camp Joseph T. Robinson in North Little Rock on Monday, July 27, 2015. Soldiers from several organizations and locations across the state participated in a daylong training program here to prepare them for carrying side arms as part of enhanced security for......
Photo by Lt. Col. Keith Moore | Arkansas National Guard Public Affairs Office | 07.27.2015
Full time Soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard participate in live-fire pistol qualification training on a range at Camp Joseph T. Robinson in North Little Rock on Monday, July 27, 2015. The recertification of pistol qualification and weapon safety was one aspect of a training program necessary to fulfill the governor’s order to arm Guardsmen across the state to provide additional......
Photo by Lt. Col. Keith Moore | Arkansas National Guard Public Affairs Office | 07.27.2015
Full time Soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard participate in live-fire pistol qualification training on a range at Camp Joseph T. Robinson in North Little Rock on Monday, July 27, 2015. The recertification of pistol qualification and weapon safety was one aspect of a training program necessary to fulfill the governor’s order to arm Guardsmen across the state to provide additional......
Photo by Lt. Col. Keith Moore | Arkansas National Guard Public Affairs Office | 07.27.2015
Lt. Col. Jason Carter, attorney with the Judge Advocate General’s office of the Arkansas National Guard, briefs Soldiers on Arkansas laws regarding the use of force in the exercise of their official duties. The briefing is part of the required training to fulfill the governor’s executive order authorizing full time Guard members to be armed for added protection of personnel and facilities......
Photo by Lt. Col. Keith Moore | Arkansas National Guard Public Affairs Office | 07.27.2015
Soldiers of the Arkansas National Guard receive a briefing on Arkansas law regarding the use of force in the exercise of their official duties during a mandatory daylong training for Soldiers and Airmen designated to carry side arms. This training is necessary to fulfill the governor’s executive order authorizing the arming of full time Guard members in order to protect personnel and......
Photo by Lt. Col. Keith Moore | Arkansas National Guard Public Affairs Office | 07.27.2015
Sgt. 1st Class Noe with the National Guard Marksmanship Training Center (standing) points out aspects of a solid shooting stance while another soldier demonstrates for a class during weapons training for Soldiers of the Arkansas National on Monday, July 27, 2015. Under the arming protocol set forth by the Arkansas adjutant general, all soldiers designated to potentially carry weapons must......
Video by Lt. Col. Keith Moore | Arkansas National Guard Public Affairs Office | 07.27.2015
Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson authorizes Adjutant General Mark Berry to arm full-time Arkansas National Guard soldiers and airmen in reaction to the deaths of four marines and one sailor in Chattanooga Tennessee on July 16, 2015 and also the attack on the Little Rock, AR Army-Navy recruiting station in 2009 that resulted in the death of one soldier and the injury of another. Soldiers at......