The Mississippi National Guard hosted exercise Southern Strike 2024-1 at the Gulfport Combat Readiness Training Center and Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, Mississippi, from March 4-15, 2024. Approximately 425 service members participated in the joint combat exercise. A combined force of Air National Guard, Army National Guard, Navy, Marine, and Coast Guard units conducted training missions that prepared personnel for contingency response operations, aeromedical evacuation, security forces airfield protection, specialized fueling operations, and rotary aviation medevac and airlift. This year's exercise placed special focus around improving drill status guardsmen readiness and strengthening joint military partnerships to enhance...
JACKSON, Miss. – “Always ready, Always there”. This is the motto for the National Guard. On May 3, 2022, a Soldier encompassed this motto through and through by being there.
