Kentucky Soldiers compete in Best Warrior Competition
Kentucky Women's Basketball honors female service members
Kentucky National Guard hosts Leadership Frankfort
Construction begins on new Burlington Field Maintenance Shop
Kentucky Soldier embraces Native American heritage
Gold Star families gather for Survivors' Day at the Races

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U.S. Army Spc. Todd Musgrove, an infantryman with Detachment 1, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 1-149th Infantry Regiment, high-crawls to his objective during the 2025 Kentucky Best Warrior Competition held at Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Kentucky, Nov. 6, 2024. This competition showcases the adaptiveness, resilience, and lethality of our forces, affirming the readiness of National Guard citizen-Soldiers to meet the nation’s challenges. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Matt Damon)
Kentucky Soldiers compete to be Commonwealth's Best Warrior
Nov. 6, 2024
Soldiers from across the Commonwealth competed in multiple events for the Kentucky Army National Guard's Best Warrior competition at the Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Nov. 3-6, 2024. The 75th Troop Command hosted the four-day event, which put participants through various grueling challenges that tested their Soldier knowledge and skills.
U.S. Army Spc. Brianna Hunter poses in front of the Murray State University newsroom wearing a hand-beaded necklace from the Mississippi Band of Choctaws at Murray State University in Murray, Kentucky on Nov. 25, 2024. Hunter is one-eighth Choctaw, serves in the Kentucky National Guard and is the editor-in-chief for the Murray State University newspaper and has written an article for the newspaper on her Native American Indian heritage. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Andy Dickson)
Embracing Heritage: Spc. Brianna Hunter’s Choctaw Journey
Nov. 27, 2024
Spc. Brianna Hunter, a Soldier with the Kentucky Army National Guard, embraces her Choctaw heritage despite challenges posed by the blood quantum system, which defines Native American identity based on ancestry fractions. Through her research, writing, and personal journey, she aims to inspire others to connect with their cultural roots and take pride in their heritage.
The Adjutant General for Kentucky, Maj. Gen. Hal Lamberton, was joined by Kentucky Guard leaders and local government representatives, as well as, project supervisors, as they broke ground on the new Field Maintenance Shop in Burlington, Ky., Nov. 18, 2024. The new 25,156 square foot maintenance facility will include wide maintenance bays, storage and administration space capable of sustaining modern military vehicles and equipment in Kentucky’s fastest growing area for population. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Benjamin Crane)
Kentucky National Guard breaks ground on new field maintenance facility in Boone County
Nov. 27, 2024
Kentucky National Guard broke ground in Burlington, Nov. 18 for a new field maintenance facility. When complete, the facility will serve more than 760 Soldiers from six different units serving in the cities of Burlington, Walton, and Carrolton.

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Kentucky National Guard Soldiers with Charlie Battery, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery Brigade took part in the 2024 Bardstown Christmas Parade, Dec. 5, 2024. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Milt Spalding)
Kentucky National Guard supports Bardstown Christmas Parade, strengthens community bonds
Dec. 23, 2024
Soldiers from Charlie Battery, 2nd Battalion, 138th Field Artillery Brigade, supported the 2024 Bardstown Christmas Parade Dec. 5, 2024, by providing a color guard and assisting local police. The event featured over 100 entries, including the Bluegrass ChalleNGe Academy cadets and Ethan, the canine star of the upcoming film Ethan Almighty, as the grand marshal.
Master Sgt. Dustin Turner, right, an explosive ordnance disposal technician assigned to the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Civil Engineer Squadron, examines soil for osseous material in a rice paddy in Quang Binh Province, Vietnam, in June 2023. Turner was part of a U.S.-led team that recovered the remains of two U.S. Marine pilots who were lost in combat over Vietnam in December 1972. (Courtesy photo)
Kentucky Air Guardsman helps recover pilots lost in combat during Vietnam War
Dec. 20, 2024
The efforts of a Kentucky Air National Guardsman were instrumental in locating the remains of two U.S. Marine aviators lost in combat over Vietnam a half-century ago.
Maj. Gen. Hal Lamberton, the Adjutant General for Kentucky, was joined by Kentucky Guard leaders and local government representatives and project supervisors, as they broke ground on the new new multi-purpose machine gun range on Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center Dec, 13, 2024. The range will have five-lanes with three lanes at 1,500 meters and two lanes at 800 meters. The range will increase training efficiency by reducing travel time, cost and reliance on outside agencies. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Sgt. 1st Class Benjamin Crane)
Kentucky Guard breaks ground on its first machine gun range for enhanced readiness
Dec. 20, 2024
Leaders from the Kentucky Guard, along with state and federal representatives, were on hand for the groundbreaking of the new multi-purpose machine gun range at the Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Dec. 13, 2024.
Members of the 123rd Airlift Wing upload cargo to a Kentucky Air National Guard C-130J Super Hercules aircraft in support of Operation Arctic Haven at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Sept. 2, 2024. Thirty-six wing Airmen supported the Innovative Readiness Training mission, which airlifted 39 short tons of residential building supplies to two remote villages in northern Alaska. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Chloe Ochs)
Kentucky Air Guard helps alleviate arctic housing shortage with airlift mission to North Slope
Dec. 19, 2024
Thirty-six Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard conducted Operation Arctic Haven here Aug. 30 to Sept. 6, airlifting 39 tons of residential building supplies to the North Slope of Alaska to support local communities in need.
Col. Randall Hood, right, accepts the 123rd Operations Group guidon from Col. Bruce Bancroft, outgoing commander of the 123rd Airlift Wing, during a change-of-command ceremony at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., Oct. 11, 2024. Hood replaces Col. Matthew Quenichet, who has assumed command of the 123rd Airlift Wing. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Joshua Horton)
Hood takes command of 123rd Operations Group
Dec. 18, 2024
Col. Randall Hood took command of the 123rd Operations Group during a ceremony at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base Oct. 11, 2024. Hood replaces Col. Matthew Quenichet, who has been selected to lead the 123rd Airlift Wing.
U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Yuri Motamedi, a security forces craftsman with the 123rd Contingency Response Group, Kentucky Air National Guard, signals airmen during an Air Base Ground Defense training at Muñiz Air National Guard Base, Carolina, Puerto Rico, Sept. 21, 2023. During the training, Airmen reinforced Air Base Ground Defense skills utilized during contingency response operations in contested environments by practicing radio communications, warning and operation orders, vehicle searches, vehicle take-downs, close-quarter battle, and small team tactics. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Rafael D. Rosa)
Kentucky Guard Airmen selected as best in Contingency Response field
Dec. 18, 2024
Two Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard's 123rd Contingency Response Group were selected as top performers nationwide in the Contingency Response community, the National Guard Bureau announced recently.
Chief Master Sgt. Gregory Myers, right, 123rd Security Forces Squadron manager, receives his certificate of retirement from Lt. Col. Jason Ray, former 123rd SFS operations officer, during a ceremony at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., Oct. 13, 2024. Myers is retiring after 30 years of service to the active-duty Air Force and Air National Guard. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Joshua Horton)
Myers concludes 30-year career of service to Air Guard, Air Force
Dec. 17, 2024
Chief Master Sgt. Gregory W. Myers, manager of the 123rd Security Forces Squadron, retired from military service during a ceremony at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base Oct. 13, ending a career spanning 30 years.
U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Haldane B. Lamberton, adjutant general of Kentucky, salutes the wreath he hung in honor of prisoners-of war and missing-in-action at the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs wreath laying ceremony at the Capitol Rotunda in Frankfort, Kentucky on Dec. 9, 2024. The Kentucky National Guard supported the ceremony by providing music from the 202nd Band and a color guard from the 63rd Theater Aviation Brigade. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Andy Dickson)
National Guard supports Kentucky wreath laying ceremony
Dec. 10, 2024
The Kentucky National Guard supported the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs wreath laying ceremony with participation by the 202nd Army Band and members of HHC, 63rd TAB color guard. U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Haldane B. Lamberton, the adjutant general of Kentucky, laid the wreath in honor of prisoners-of-war and missing-in-action.