On May 16th 2025, Montana’s 1-163rd Combined Arms Battalion hosted over a dozen British Army Soldiers of the Royal Wessex Yeomanry (RWxY) at the Limestone Hills Training Facility in a joint training event to help their armored crewmembers transition to the Challenger 3 tank which is currently in production. Training involved British armored crewmembers serving in their assigned roles on the M1A2 Abrams alongside our Montana National Guard Soldiers. This kind of joint training serves to enhance British Army readiness, build stronger allied partnerships, and project lethality on the battlefield.
Video courtesy of the 103rd Public Affairs Detachment
Livingston, MT native, Army Officer Candidate Cari Douglass has been awarded Major General Lisa J. Hou's coin of excellence in recognition of outstanding individual specific achievement, accomplishment, or performance within or outside the service member's assigned job responsibilities or line of duty.
The Montana Army National Guard held a ribbon-cutting event for a new Mobile Immediate Need Engineering Resource (MINER) at Fort Harrison.
The MINER is a mobile engineering lab that comes equipped with several of the latest tools in prototype engineering. This space which will enable Montana’s Soldiers to receiving engineering support and guidance as they turn their innovative ideas into prototype solutions and novel technologies that are...
ON THE WAY! B Co 1-163rd is slinging lead downrange with Bradley gunnery and dismount squad rifle training. With many experienced NCOs and new soldiers, this training is vital to bridge the experience gap at every level in the company, from diver to gunner, and rifleman to team leader.
