In a collaborative effort to enhance public safety and emergency response capabilities, the Boston Police Department (BPD) conducted a comprehensive Field Force Operations (FFO) training session for the Soldiers and Airmen of the Massachusetts National Guard Reaction Force (MA-NGRF) on September 7, 2024, at Camp Curtis Guild in Reading, Mass. This ...

Soldiers, Airmen, Guardians, and cadets from across New England participated in the German Armed Proficiency Badge Qualification test, September 5-7, 2024 at Hanscom Air Force Base. The German Armed Proficiency Badge, or GAFPB, is awarded to German Soldiers who excel in their standard military tests. Participants can earn gold, silver, or bronze b...

Sgt. Mickey Reeve, an infantryman of Bravo Co, 182nd Infantry, Massachusetts Army National Guard, won first place out of five finalists in the Inaugural Innovation Oasis competition at Central Command (CENTCOM) in Tampa, Florida, Oct. 14, 2022, for developing Counter Unmanned Aerial Surveillance Trainer.  He flew to Tampa from Saudi Arabia where...

  Soldiers of the 26th Yankee Brigade, Massachusetts National Guard, assist the Military Division of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in gathering fire-retardant gear such as helmets, jackets, pants, vests and gloves from fire departments throughout Massachusetts during the month of July 2022 to donate to Paraguay. Paraguay has been Massachuset...

Soldiers and Airmen in the Massachusetts National Guard are regularly activated to provide support for events like the Boston Marathon, the 4th of July and natural disasters.Now, members of the Massachusetts National Guard are in hospitals to address non-clinical support needs in over 60 acute-care hospitals and 13 ambulance service providers acr...

Over 300 Airmen and Soldiers of the Massachusetts National Guard provided security and support for over 28,000 race participants in the 126th Boston Marathon on Monday, April 18th, 2022. This marathon was the first Boston Marathon held at the regularly scheduled date since the Coronavirus pandemic began. The course was packed with thousands of ...

It has been a long wait, but the SFC Robert E. Rooney Unit Training Equipment Site at Camp Edwards, Mass. is now open for business. Current and former members of the 379th Engineer Company, UTES employees, family members of Sgt. 1st Class Robert E. Rooney and other Soldiers and Airmen of the Massachusetts National Guard attended a ribbon cut...

Massachusetts National Guard Unit Impacts Final Days of Afghanistan Mission Story by: 1st Lt. William C. Barrett, 1-101st Field Artillery Regiment Battalion, S6, of Beverly, MA There are no US troops left in Afghanistan. While this is common knowledge, most will only remember the scenes of chaos. Burnt in our collective memory are the images of...

Students of the Senior Gunner Course trained to assist commanders at all echelons in planning, executing and evaluating crew direct fire gunnery at the 101st Regional Training Institute on Joint Base Cape Cod, Mass., 13-27 November 2019.  A Mobile Training Team from the Warrior Training Center at Ft. Benning, Ga. conducted the course which include...

Massachusetts Army National Guard Aviation Directorate participates in a Cooperative Maintenance Engagement with the Kenyan Air Force. By Chief Warrant Officer 5 David Picard Five Massachusetts Army National Guard (MAARNG) soldiers led by Col. Robert O’Connell, the State Army Aviation Officer of the MAARNG, participated in a cooperative mainten...

Story and Photos by Spc. Alysia Brewster, 65th Theater Public Affairs Support Element   HANSCOM AIR FORCE BASE, Mass. -- The Massachusetts National Guard Counterdrug Program, Massachusetts State Police and Massachusetts District Attorney’s Association hosted the second annual Top Gun – Massachusetts: Undercover Narcotics Investigator and Prosec...

More than 50 friends and coworkers gathered to bid farewell to former Chief of Staff Col. Christine Hoffman, July 11, 2019.

101st Regiment - RTI provides Raven training to soldiers from across the United States. Learn what goes into the training and what the capabilities are for the Small Unmanned Aircraft System.

Soldiers of the 1st Battalion, 182nd Infantry Regiment, Massachusetts Army National Guard and the 1st Battalion of the 69th Infantry Regiment of the New York Army National Guard competed in the annual Logan Duffy Competition at Devens Reserve Training Area, Mass., Sep.15-16, 2018.  The competition is named after Gen. Lawrence Logan and General E...

After multiple gas explosions shook the cities of Lawrence, North Andover and Andover, Mass., residents are seeking assistance to get their homes functioning again. The event affected over 8,000 homes and has shaken the hearts of many. Numerous occupants who were home at the time of the explosion state that they still feel the fear from that night ...

Yoga instructor. Solar panel worker. Motivational speaker. Private pilot. Former professional athlete.  Tysha M. Wiggins is all of those things and recently became the newest crew chief at the 104th Fighter Wing when she enlisted into the Massachusetts Air National Guard Oct. 11, 2018, here.  She joined the 104th Fighter Wing on the day before he...

Nestled in a building that was the home of the headquarters of the Massachusetts National Guard until 2012, is an office with 3.2 million military records mostly dated from 1940 – 2016, maintained by only three full-time personnel.  These records could be a military service member’s DD 214 or military discharge, medical records that could help w...

More than 200 service members from five nations are conducting Regional Cooperation 2018 (RC18), a joint command-post exercise, Sept. 10 - 21, at Camp Edwards on Joint Base Cape Cod, Massachusetts. According to U.S. Army Maj. Robert McCracken, U.S. Central Command’s lead exercise planner, the purpose of RC18 is to improve the ability of South and ...

The The 102nd Civil Engineer Squadron recently returned from an Innovative Readiness Training deployment that not only honed their skills as engineers, but provided an opportunity to give back to the community in a unique and rewarding way. However, it was not always that way.   The IRT program began construction of Camp Kamassa in April and dur...

As summer camp season started, the Massachusetts National Guard made an effort to support local Junior Police Academies in the municipalities of Everett, Malden and Somerville the second week of July. The week-long day programs are designed as a community engagement tool. Police officers serve as camp counselors and expose middle-school age stud...

The Massachusetts National Guard Counter Drug Program, Massachusetts State Police and Massachusetts District Attorney’s Association hosted the inaugural Top Gun Massachusetts Undercover Narcotics Officer Training course September 16-22 here. Eighty participants were given the opportunity to learn the most current information on investigative t...

Members of the public, veterans and distinguished guests attended a reenactment of the awarding of the Croix de Guerre to the 104th Infantry Regiment, 26th Yankee Division at Apremont Park in Westfield, Massachusetts, April 29th, 2017. The Croix de Guerre is a French decoration given to members of the military for acts of bravery. The reenactme...

Just before 3 p.m. on April 15, 2013, two bombs exploded on Boylston Street in Boston ripping through a crowd that had gathered at the finish line of the city’s annual marathon. The explosion killed three and injured another 264 people. Joe Fortini was a senior at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth when he watched the tragedy unfold.“I had...