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Kentucky Guard holds first leadership conference of its kind
February 21, 2025 — More than 400 Kentucky Army National Guard staff sergeants and promotable sergeants gathered at Kentucky State University for a two-day leader development event Feb. 8-9...

New Kentucky State Chaplain Promoted
February 18, 2025 — Chaplain Angela White was promoted to colonel; pinned by her husband, son and daughter, and officially recognized as the next State Chaplain by the Adjutant General during the ceremony...

Kentucky Guard evacuates 296 people stranded by floods in Martin County
February 17, 2025 — Airmen and Soldiers from the Kentucky National Guard evacuated 296 residents from two housing complexes surrounded by floodwaters in Martin County, Kentucky, Feb. 17, 2025...

Kentucky National Guard adapts to shifting weather threats
February 17, 2025 — Kentucky National Guard Soldiers responded to significant flooding from torrential rains that began on Feb. 14. As Soldiers worked with partners from Emergency Management to transport emergency personnel and supplies, conduct search and rescue missions, and clear debris, they also had to adapt to rapid changes in weather that brought extreme cold and large amounts of snow only a few days later...

Otto concludes military career spanning 27 years and three continents
February 10, 2025 — Col. Hans Otto, commander of the 123rd Medical Group, was officially retired during a ceremony at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Dec. 15, ending a military career spanning more than 27 years...

Ky. Army National Guard artillery aligning with active-duty corps
February 6, 2025 — The 138th Field Artillery Brigade will redesignate as the 138th Operational Fires Command in support of the U.S. Army V Corps, located at Fort Knox, Kentucky. The OFC will be the first unit of its kind in a pilot aimed to solve challenges faced while applying lethal and non-lethal fires in large scale combat operations...

Kentucky Military Police march to honor Allied prisoners of war
February 4, 2025 — Seventeen Soldiers from the 223rd Military Police Company, 198th Military Police Battalion, 149th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, marched with their rucksacks from the Stalag Luft III prisoner of war camp in Zagan, Poland to Spremberg, Germany. The three-day, 55-mile journey followed the exact route of Allied troops who were captured as prisoners during World War II and evacuated from German POW camps on January 27, 1945...

Kentucky Soldiers aid the Commonwealth
January 21, 2025 — Kentucky National Guard Soldiers worked with Kentucky Emergency Management and Kentucky State Police to provide transportation to essential medical personnel and first responders who would otherwise have not been able to safely travel to their critical and essential jobs after Winter Storm Blair hit the Commonwealth Jan. 5-6, 2025...

Guardsmen recognized at Kentucky State of the Commonwealth
January 17, 2025 — Two of our Army Guard Soldiers were honored by Gov. Andy Beshear during last night’s State of the Commonwealth address in the House Chambers at our state capitol. Sgt. Grayson Johnson and Spc. William Price each received the Purple Heart and Combat Action Badge as a result of drone attacks at Tower 22 in Jordan last year. The Soldiers received a standing ovation from the governor, members of the Kentucky House and Senate and the Kentucky Supreme Court as well as guests and visitors...

Longest-serving director of Bluegrass Station retires
January 17, 2025 — Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Stephen Collins retires after 16 years as the director of Bluegrass Station (BGS) in Lexington, Kentucky, on Dec. 10, 2024. Collins served in the Kentucky National Guard for 38 years and became the director of BGS in August of 2008...

Kentucky military police deploy overseas
January 16, 2025 — Kentucky Army National Guard Soldiers with the 617th Military Police Company, 149th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade, say goodbye to their loved ones at a deployment ceremony held in Richmond Jan. 4, 2025. Soldiers of the 617th will be deploying to the Middle East to conduct military police operations in support of Operation Inherent Resolve...

Adams takes command of 123rd Medical Group
January 15, 2025 — Col. Patricia Adams assumed command of the 123rd Medical Group during a ceremony at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base here Dec. 15, succeeding Col. Hans Otto, who has led the unit since 2022...

Kentucky’s 75th Troop Command gets new commander
January 12, 2025 — U.S. Army Col. Jason Penn relinquished command of the 75th Troop Command, Kentucky Army National Guard, to Col. Steven Engels during a change of command ceremony at the Wellman Armory on Boone National Guard Center Jan. 12, 2025...

Kentucky Air Guard security forces conduct information exchange with Ecuadorian partners
December 31, 2024 — Twenty-seven Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Security Forces Squadron teamed with six Ecuadorian Air Force special forces for a week-long information exchange supporting domestic law enforcement operations May 16-22, 2024...

Bosslift offers new perspective to civilian employers of Guard Airmen
December 30, 2024 — Several civilian employers and community leaders toured the Kentucky Air National Guard Base to learn more about the missions of the military reserve components, and specifically about the Kentucky Air National Guard in Louisville on Sept. 19, 2024. Their tour included extensive briefings on the missions of the Kentucky Air National Guard and its primary operational unit, the Louisville-based 123rd Airlift Wing, as well as an orientation flight aboard a C-130J Super Hercules aircraft...

Kentucky National Guard honors top recruiters and mission makers at ceremony
December 30, 2024 — Soldiers from the Kentucky Army National Guard’s Recruiting and Retention Battalion were honored during the battalion’s Mission Makers ceremony in Louisville, Dec. 14, 2024...

Kentucky National Guard supports Bardstown Christmas Parade, strengthens community bonds
December 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...

Kentucky Air Guardsman helps recover pilots lost in combat during Vietnam War
December 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...

Kentucky Guard breaks ground on its first machine gun range for enhanced readiness
December 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...

Kentucky Air Guard helps alleviate arctic housing shortage with airlift mission to North Slope
December 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...

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