Story by Sgt. 1st Class James McGuire | Joint Force Headquarters - Wyoming National Guard | 04.18.2019
Two four-man teams from the Wyoming Army National Guard were among almost 500 shooters from 46 U.S. states and territories who sent bullets flying at the Winston P. Wilson (WPW) Championship, a competition conducted annually at Robinson Maneuver Training Center, in North Little Rock, Arkansas. The April 7-11 combat-focused rifle and pistol competition is intended to promote growth and the......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class James McGuire | Joint Force Headquarters - Wyoming National Guard | 03.12.2019
While it hasn’t received as much attention as the new Army physical fitness evaluation, the 40 targets on the rifle marksmanship range are also about to be engaged in a more combat-focused manner. Soldiers from the Wyoming Army National Guard’s C Company, 1st Battalion, 297th Infantry Regiment (Forward) were the first to try out the new test at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center as part......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class James McGuire | Joint Force Headquarters - Wyoming National Guard | 01.30.2019
“It’s a pre-PEC course to assist the new recruiters and retention NCOs prior to PEC’s non-career recruiter course. That’s a tough course, and a lot of people were getting sent home,” Herrera, the RRB NCOIC, said. “In the two years I’ve been doing this, we have a 100 percent pass rate at PEC.”
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Story by Sgt. 1st Class James McGuire | Joint Force Headquarters - Wyoming National Guard | 01.23.2019
Wyoming Army National Guard aviators, from the state’s most deployed unit, have always mobilized with the nickname Cowboy Dustoff, but those days have come to a temporary end following a patch ceremony at Fort Bliss, Texas, where the soldiers gave up their horse and rider patch for a 1st Armored Division patch. Along with Army National Guard aviators from Mississippi, New York and New......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class James McGuire | Joint Force Headquarters - Wyoming National Guard | 01.10.2019
About 40 artillerymen assigned to the Wyoming Army National Guard's Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion 2/300 Field Artillery Battalion, Forward, spent 40 hours this week learning how to keep one another alive in the event of a combat casualty while deployed overseas later this year....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class James McGuire | Joint Force Headquarters - Wyoming National Guard | 12.06.2018
Pvt. Austin Krueger has focused on becoming an Honor Guard member for most of his 2 1/2-year career. “I think it’s very honorable and respectable to be able to give the family that special and memorable last moment with their loved one,” the young infantryman said. “I heard about the program two years ago when I was with the 960th (Brigade Support Battalion) and I’ve been trying to......
Story by Sgt. 1st Class James McGuire | Joint Force Headquarters - Wyoming National Guard | 11.15.2018
“With this first deployment, I want to go with something other than myself or family to hold on to and to have faith in. Just in case there are bad days or lonely or negative, dark, questioning times … I’m not saying there will be anything bad, but I don’t know what to expect.”...
Story by Sgt. 1st Class James McGuire | Joint Force Headquarters - Wyoming National Guard | 11.07.2018
“We’ve done a lot of surveys over the years, and one area that always comes up is ‘we need more leadership training,’” Reiner told the group of 15 commissioned and noncommissioned officers gathered at a Cheyenne conference center Nov. 5 and 6. “We want to be sure our team is the best it can be, and thought maybe we need a small group just focused on leadership.”...
