By The Associated Press About 1,700 Hawaii National Guard soldiers are preparing to come home this summer from their Middle East deployment. The 29th Brigade Combat Team is expected home in August. Officials haven’t said when the unit will leave their Kuwait base. The soldiers were sent to Kuwait for nine months to provide security […]

By Doug Harlow / Kennebec Journal Morning Sentinel Drawing on her 10 years in the Maine Army National Guard and a tour of duty in Iraq in 2004, Capt. Lisa Sessions, at age 28, is a no-nonsense kind of soldier. Sessions, of Windham, commands the 136th Engineer Co. of the 133rd Engineer Battalion, with headquarters […]

Mark and I and our good friend Bruno were interviewed while we were in Afghanistan. Read the article here.

Oregon National Guard Oregon officially welcomed home the embedded trainers at a ceremony today in Salem. This is the weekend that the embedded trainers who have spent the last year in Afghanistan have/will reach(ed) Oregon. Welcome home, guys. Also, on Friday, 30 airmen from the Portland Airbase were sent off to Texas Friday for training […]