Story by Richard Goldenberg | New York National Guard | 12.01.2025
BALLSTON SPA, N.Y. – Seven New York Army National Guard Soldiers and Airmen joined local veterans to load 150 Christmas trees earmarked military bases around the country on board a truck at Ellms Tree Farm in Ballston Spa on Dec. 1. This was the 21st year tree farmers in the area donated to the “Trees for Troops” program. The donated trees are destined for service members and their......
Story by Richard Goldenberg | New York National Guard | 08.23.2025
BOONVILLE, N.Y. – Eight New York Army National Guard Soldiers provided funeral honors for a World War II Soldier who survived the infamous Bataan Death March —only to die in a Japanese POW camp and his remains unidentified for 82 years— on August 23, 2005. Army Private Harland Hennessey, a resident of Boonville New York, was interred next to the graves of his parents with full......
Story by Alexander Rector | New York National Guard | 08.14.2025
Nine New York National Guard servicemembers attended a professional development symposium during the 54th annual conference of the Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States (EANGUS), in Reno, NV, Aug. 11-14, 2025....
Story by Richard Goldenberg | New York National Guard | 08.04.2025
CAMP DAWSON AIR FORCE RESERVE STATION, West Virginia -- Members of the New York Army National Guard’s 501st Ordnance Battalion, an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) headquarters, ran a training event for 142 Soldiers from four different states from July 31 to August 4 at Camp Dawson, West Virginia....
Story by Lt. Col. Jean Kratzer | New York National Guard | 05.20.2025
LATHAM, N.Y.- Paul Bailie, a Cohoes resident, was promoted to colonel in the New York Army National Guard, and took command of the Combat Aviation Brigade during a May 17, 2025, ceremony at the Army flight facility in Latham. Bailie replaced Col. Jason Lefton, a Niskayuna resident, who has commanded the brigade since 2021. Lefton will continue to serve as the New York Army National......
Story by Lt. Col. Jean Kratzer | Headquarters, 42nd Infantry Division | 05.17.2025
Paul Bailie, a Cohoes resident, was promoted to colonel In the New York Army National Guard, and took command of the Combat Aviation Brigade during a May 17, 2025, ceremony at the Army flight facility in Latham....
Story by Lt. Col. Jean Kratzer | New York National Guard | 05.10.2025
NEW WINDSOR, New York --Ten New York Army National Guard Soldiers received the Purple Heart—the award given to military members wounded in action—during a May 10, 2025, ceremony at the National Purple Heart Hall of Honor in New Windsor. The ten Soldiers were injured during a January 28, 2024, drone attack on a U.S. base in Jordan known as Tower 22. Three U.S. Army Reserve Soldiers were......
Story by Richard Goldenberg | New York National Guard | 05.08.2025
SCHUYLERVILLE, N.Y. -- New York Army National Guard helicopter crews partnered with state Department of Environmental Conservation Forest Rangers to hone their firefighting skills along the Hudson River near Schuylerville on May 8....
