Association of the United States Army: May 2008 Special Report: Army National Guard and Army Reserve

Army National Guard and Army Reserve

An Army of 1.1 million
Reserve chief says overall end strength should focus on one number, not separate active, guard and reserve issues.

Florida guard weathers changes
The Florida National Guard has been operating as a joint force headquarters for more than a decade, employing its redundant communications capabilities to weather the toughest storms and to survive manmade disasters.

Fla. guard headquarters noted for place in history
Florida likes to boast that its National Guard headquarters in historic St. Francis Barracks, St. Augustine, is the oldest military site in the nation, beating West Point by 16 years.

Soldiers take bite out of drug business
“We’ve got the largest counterdrug program in the nation,” Lt. Col. Michael Muzelak, said, and Florida is sharing what it has learned since 1992 and what it knows now with law enforcement officials across the state, the region and the nation.

Guard team ready for ‘lots of action’
Even before it went to Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., in December 2001 to be certified as one of the National Guard’s first weapons of mass destruction civil support team, soldiers in Florida’s 44th Civil Support Team (CST) were in Palm Beach County supporting law enforcement officials there following an anthrax attack that left one employee dead at a supermarket tabloid’s office.

Indiana National Guard unit trains in Kuwait before Iraq deployment
After months of training, thousands of soldiers from the Indiana National Guard's 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team are just a few short miles from the border of Iraq – and they still are training.

Guard soldier becomes first to move to active duty under new program
Pvt. Raymond Loree is the first Army National Guard soldier to graduate directly into the active Army’s ranks through a new program called Active First.

Reserve structure helps strengthen theAll-Volunteer Force
The Army’s senior civilian overseeing its reserve components that the current operations in Afghanistan and Iraq are “the only extended war since the Revolutionary War that we have fought with an all-volunteer force.”

Where everybody knows your name
Reserve soldiers ready for life at military installations in combat zone.

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