The pilot program Stay Fit, Stay Guard, ran by the Michigan National Guard, is being conducted at Fort Custer Training Center, Augusta, Mich., from April 23 - May 7, 2016. Twenty-seven Soldiers from all over the state volunteered to participate in the program. Soldiers from the Michigan National Guard’s Stay Fit Stay Guard program conducted […]

Michigan National Guard Soldiers from Company C, 3rd Battalion, 126th Infantry, Michigan Army National Guard, won the Chief Warrant Officer David R. Logan Sniper Team Trophy during the Winston P. Wilson Sniper Championship. Sgt. Saykham Keophalychanh and Sgt. Nicholas Mitchell teamed up for the competition to win the trophy. Even more impressive about this team’s […]

Annual training 2016 for the 1071st Component Repair Company, Michigan Army National Guard, is taking place at the Combined Support Maintenance Shop in Lansing, Mich. The CSMS facility provides Soldiers with hands-on training they would not receive during their typical annual training. “This is great training for the M-day Soldier. They are paired up with […]

Pfc. Devon Capman a resident of Grand Rapids and a member of Company C, Brigade Special Troops Battalion, 86th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Michigan National Guard, concluded his state active service assignment with Task Force Flint on April 13, 2016. Capman was an important part of the Guard support effort to distribute drinking water and […]

Members of the Michigan Army National Guard, 1st Battalion, 119th Field Artillery, volunteered their time during a training exercise in Latvia to do community service and help with the clean-up of a nearby park. The Legatne Nature Park, located about 40 miles from the Latvian capital of Riga, has a clean-up day once a year […]