U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Lusine Kamara from the 133rd Airlift Wing participates in a Mother’s Day shout-out in St. Paul, Minn., March 18, 2025. (U.S. Air National Guard video by Airman Kaci Brannan)
The longest-lasting State Partnership in the United States Department of Defense, which has been ongoing for the past 52 years, is the Norwegian Reciprocal Troop Exchange (NOREX) between the Minnesota National Guard and the Norwegian Home Guard. Although American chaplains aren't trained as combat soldiers, chaplains from the Minnesota National Guard and Norway have supported the training exercise each year, supporting American and Norwegian...
Minnesota National Guard service members completed a two-week Norwegian Reciprocal Troop Exchange training exercise in Norway Feb. 5-19, 2025. The training included cold-weather survival training and cultural exchange.
70 Air National Guard airmen gathered at Camp Ripley Training Center, Minn., from Jan. 27 to Feb. 8, 2025, to train and conduct mission-essential tasks in extremely cold temperatures, during the Air National Guard’s Cold Weather Operations Course (CWOC). The class was comprised of mostly security forces personnel from 37 wings representing 27 states. Two participants and one instructor from the 3rd Canadian Division’s Lake Superior...
