Story by Capt. Travis Mueller | Joint Force Headquarters - Pennsylvania National Guard | 12.02.2022
A team of U.S. Soldiers with 1-109th IN won a multinational shooting competition while deployed to Egypt.
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler | Joint Force Headquarters - Pennsylvania National Guard | 03.11.2022
About 150 Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division departed Pennsylvania March 4 to begin a deployment to the Middle East....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler | Joint Force Headquarters - Pennsylvania National Guard | 04.09.2021
Soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, deployed from a CH-47 Chinook to a training site on April 9, 2021....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler | Joint Force Headquarters - Pennsylvania National Guard | 07.21.2020
FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. – Soldiers from Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division honed their short-range marksmanship skills during their annual training at Fort Indiantown Gap on July 21, 2020. Under the guidance of Staff Sgt. Richard Cihanowyz and Staff Sgt. Lee Zimmerman, the Bravo Company Soldiers were instructed on......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler | Joint Force Headquarters - Pennsylvania National Guard | 04.23.2020
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – Pennsylvania National Guard members and officials from Pennsylvania Department of Health and Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency opened a COVID-19 testing site at Mohegan Sun Arena on April 20. “Today was the first day of the community testing. We had a soft start, we did first responders and local health providers. They were able to come through – drive......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler | Joint Force Headquarters - Pennsylvania National Guard | 04.23.2020
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – While the goal of the COVID-19 testing site at Mohegan Sun Arena is to test members of the Luzerne County community, the safety of those operating the testing site is a high priority....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler | Joint Force Headquarters - Pennsylvania National Guard | 04.19.2020
WILKES-BARRE, Pa. – Soldiers and Airmen from the Pennsylvania National Guard conducted training with officials from the Pennsylvania Department of Health and Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency on April 19, 2020, in preparation for a COVID-19 testing site at the Mohegan Sun Arena parking lot. “I just want everyone at home and the community to know that the National Guard is out......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Douglas Roles | 28th Infantry Division | 07.13.2018
By 1st Lt. James Kane and Sgt. 1st Class Doug Roles 28th Infantry Division, Task Force Spartan Public Affairs CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait – The 28th Infantry Division is celebrating 100 years of being known as the “Iron Division.” The 28th is America’s oldest continuously-serving division and dates its start to March 12, 1879. It earned the “Iron” moniker in World War I - on July 15,......
