Courtesy Story | Texas Military Department | 06.06.2014
With the Atlantic hurricane season in full swing, members of the Texas State Guard participated in a statewide annual training exercise, June 5-8, 2014, in which each area partnered with local, state and federal agencies to simulate sheltering operations during a real world disaster and its emergency response....
Story by Staff Sgt. Jennifer Atkinson | Texas Military Department | 12.09.2013
Citizen-soldiers with the 176th Engineer Brigade, Texas Army National Guard, provided support to state and local officials during Winter Storm Cleon, as named by the National Weather Service, in north Texas, Dec. 5-9, 2013....
Story by Laura Lopez | Texas Military Department | 09.20.2013
It is a training site that dates back to World War II, where soldiers with the Texas Army National Guard’s 36th Infantry Division completed training before landing on the beaches of Normandy in 1944. The, then-5,000 plus acres of Camp Bowie, in Brownwood, Texas, was acquired by the Texas Military Forces in 1949, with the southern portion of the now almost 9,000-acre site added in 1993 and 1994....
Story by Laura Lopez | Texas Military Department | 09.18.2013
The numerous men and women who serve their country and communities go by many names; fathers mothers, husbands, wives, brothers and sisters- and to some, heroes. The Training Center Garrison Command’s camp manager and officer-in-charge at Camp Bowie, in Brownwood, Texas, is a 19-year veteran in the Texas Army National Guard, and proud to call himself a citizen-soldier....
