Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 09.05.2025
LATHAM, New York-Six New York Army National Guard officers and an Air Guard master sergeant are heading to Sweden to help the Swedish Army’s 1st Division conduct its first ever division staff command post exercise. Prior to 2022, the Swedish Army’s highest command level was a brigade. Sweden, which joined the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in March of 2024, initialed a State......
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 09.04.2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Black New York National Guard Soldiers, known as “hellfighters” by their German enemies one hundred years ago, were recognized with Congress’ highest recognition during a Sept. 3 ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. The Congressional Gold Medal was presented to descendants of some of the 4,000 Soldiers who served in the 369th Infantry Regiment, nicknamed the Harlem......
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 09.02.2025
NEW YORK --On July 2, 2025, New York Guard Chief Warrant Officer 2 Theodore “Teddy” Earley saved a life. Earley, a personnel specialist in the New York Guard’s 56th Company, donated a kidney to New York City Fire Department Emergency Medical Services Lieutenant P.J. Costa that day....
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 08.28.2025
WEST POINT--New York --Three months of New York Army National Guard aircrews training with the active-duty Soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division—the Army’s air assault experts-- wrapped up with a capabilities demonstration for U.S. Military Academy cadets on West Point’s Plain on August 28. Aircrews from the 3rd Battalion, 142nd Assault Helicopter Battalion, teamed up with aviators......
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 Capt. Jason Carr | 107th Attack Wing | 08.14.2025
ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. — Twenty Airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 107th Attack Wing’s Medical Group, stationed in Niagara Falls NY, were among 160 joint service members supporting Operation Healthy Ellwood, an Innovation Readiness Training (IRT) mission, July 23 to Aug. 1, 2025. The Department of Defense-led effort provided free medical, dental, optometry, and veterinary services......
Story by Capt. Cheran Campbell | 106th Rescue Wing | 08.13.2025
Actor Taylor Kitsch was honored by the Congressional Medal of Honor Society during a visit with the Airmen of the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing on August 6, 2025....
