Capt. Hightower, the 13th Combat Sustainment Support Battalion plans officer, speaks about his Vibrant Response 24 experience on Fort Carson on April 22, 2024. Vibrant Response is an annual U.S. Northern Command directed command post exercise. As U.S. Northern Command's Joint Force Land Component Command, U.S. Army North is Vibrant Response 24's executive agent responsible for ensuring the training focuses on a simulated Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear (CBRN) disaster scenario designed to validate U.S. Northern Command's CBRN Response Enterprise's ability to exercise short-notice and no-notice deployment of military forces at the request of civil authorities to save lives, alleviate human suffering, and mitigate property...
BALTIMORE — At the direction of Gov. Wes Moore, the Maryland National Guard has activated 22 Soldiers on state active duty who will have nine military vehicles ready in Somerset and Dorchester counties in case they are needed to support civil agencies responding to Tropical Storm Ophelia this weekend.
The MDNG will utilize light/medium tactical vehicles and High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV), also known as Humvees, for...
REISTERSTOWN, Md. – The Maryland National Guard celebrated the start of construction on a $1.8 million turf field at the Camp Fretterd Military Reservation during a groundbreaking ceremony September 6, 2023.
The construction of the 100% federally funded project will begin this fall and the turf field is scheduled to be completed next summer.