When disaster strikes a small town, the National Guard is critical in its service to local first responders augmenting civilian life flight capabilities and providing immediate life saving care. Recently the Wyoming and Colorado National Guard participated in “Alpine Guard” a mass casualty exercise simulating the response to a major tornado in the small town of Fort Morgan, Colorado.
In receiving his promotion, newly minted Brig. Gen. Brian R. Nesvik was named the state’s assistant to the adjutant general, taking command of more than 1,500 Army troops, in front of hundreds of family members and friends.
The Wyoming Military Department’s environmental department has partnered with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to study the elk population at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center.
The three-year study began last month with a Wyoming Army National Guard UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter flight over the north and south training areas of the almost 80,000-acre military training facility. The flight determined where the herds were and gave a...
Wyoming National Guardsmen are on call to support civil authorities in a myriad of ways, including firefighting, flood mitigation and even riot control.
The state always has a unit trained and ready to support law enforcement should the need arise, and for a little more than a year, the baton of the National Guard Reaction Force in Wyoming has been in the hands of the 133rd Engineer Company, based in Laramie. The extra duty cycles to...
Two of the original employees at Wyoming Cowboy ChalleNGe Academy were celebrated January 18 during a retirement ceremony at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center.
Recruiting, Placement and Mentoring Coordinator Theresa Smith and RPM Specialist Paul Holloway began their careers with the National Guard-sponsored program for at-risk teenagers more than 12 years ago, and while they won’t be on the payroll now, it sounds like they plan to...
Cheyenne fifth-graders are a lucky bunch, especially if they have an affinity for technology, science and robots.
As part of the National Guard-sponsored STARBASE Academy, fifth-graders are introduced to robotics along with other science, technology, engineering and math subjects and activities. Some of them have gone on to join robotics teams and to compete with their creations through their high school years.
They are introduced to...
