Story by Sgt. Lani Pascual | California Counterdrug Task Force | 09.04.2018
On May 29, 2018, U.S. Attorney McGregor W. Scott announced heightened concerns regarding the continued damage to public lands from illegal marijuana grows during a press conference in Sacramento, California....
Story by Bill Pierce | Ohio National Guard Public Affairs | 04.18.2018
The Ohio Army National Guard has been recognized by the Secretary of the Army for its environmental restoration efforts at Camp Ravenna Joint Training Center in Northwest Ohio. Efforts to enable and expand military training at Camp Ravenna was the driving factor in winning the award....
Story by Spc. Brianne Roudebush | California Counterdrug Task Force | 08.28.2014
The multi-agency team hiked up steep mountainsides, climbing over fallen branches and crawling through thickets of Manzanita. Dirt clung to sweat-soaked faces as the sun beat down overhead. Eventually, the GPS indicated they had reached their destination: an old campsite used by illicit marijuana growers. Stoves, tarps, tents, clothes and all kinds of trash littered the site....
Story by Sgt. Aaron Rooks | 6th Marine Corps District | 01.22.2014
More than half an hour passed with no success as Gunnery Sgt. Nicholas Tyciak attempted to reach his Marine via repeated telephone calls. Sgt. Landon Rios, a 25-year-old recruiter with Recruiting Substation Augusta, Recruiting Station Columbia, did not arrive to work on time the morning of June 20. Tyciak, the RSS staff noncommissioned officer-in-charge, listened to Rios’ voice mail message......
Courtesy Story | California Counterdrug Task Force | 07.26.2011
California Army National Guard medics were recently tasked to work with flight crews from the California National Guard Counterdrug Task Force (CDTF) during an operation that supported 25 local, state and federal law enforcement agencies in targeting illegal marijuana grow sites in the Mendocino National Forest in July....
Courtesy Story | California Counterdrug Task Force | 07.26.2011
As hikers, campers and nature enthusiasts enter the Golden State’s pristine forests, far too few realize the dangers lurking deep within the canopy....
Courtesy Story | California Counterdrug Task Force | 07.30.2010
The California National Guard Counterdrug Task Force joined with more than 21 federal, state and local agencies in July for an operation focusing on the eradication of illegally grown marijuana on public land, restoration of the grow sites and education of local youth about making positive life choices and living a drug free lifestyle in Central California....
Courtesy Story | California Counterdrug Task Force | 07.30.2010
On a three-digit temperature July day near Springville, California, a group of Soldiers clad in Kevlar helmets and black harnesses boarded a Pave Hawk helicopter and took to the skies. Minutes later, the helicopter came to a stop and hovered high above the ground. From the sky, only treetops and a small open field — large enough for only two Soldiers to be lowered into — are visible. But......
