LAWRENCEVILLE, N.J. – Garden State Citizen-Soldiers and Citizen-Airmen supported a key Defense Security Cooperation Agency and National Guard Bureau initiative in coordination with the state’s longtime partner, the Republic of Albania, September 12-14, 2025. The initiative uses space on Air National Guard flights to transport Building Partner Capacity materials to State Partnership Program participants. Streamlining this process also...
Thirty-seven Soldiers of the New Jersey Army National Guard qualified as equal opportunity leaders, August 16, 2025. The six-day-long class held at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey prepared the Soldiers to improve readiness in their units by identifying and preventing issues of discrimination and unfair treatment.
The New Jersey Army National Guard commissioned new second lieutenants during a formal Officer Candidate School graduation and pinning ceremony held in Sea Girt, New Jersey, on Aug. 3, 2025.
Officer candidates from the New Jersey Army National Guard’s Officer Candidate School, part of the 1-254th Regional Training Institute in Sea Girt, N.J., traveled to Camp Nett in Niantic, Conn., this week to begin Phase One of their officer commissioning process.
Candidates from seven states converged at Connecticut’s 169th Regional Training Institute for the physically demanding portion of the program. Phase One includes rigorous...
