A report on National Guard (United States) and Air National Guard

Shield of the Air National Guard which portrays two jet aircraft and the 1874 The Minute Man sculpture

A Galludet Tractor biplane which the New York National Guard aviators rented in 1915

Seal of the National Guard Bureau, 2013 to present

Captain Charles A. Lindbergh, Missouri National Guard, and members of his National Guard unit, 110th Observation Squadron, after he flew solo across the Atlantic Ocean, 1927

Army National Guard soldiers at New York City's Penn Station in 2004

Following a devastating blizzard in 1949, Colorado ANG C-47s dropped hay to stranded and starving livestock throughout the Rocky Mountain region. Altogether the Colorado Air Guardsmen flew 17 such missions dropping tons of hay that saved thousands of cattle and wildlife. Colorado ANG F-51s and A-26s also flew 10 reconnaissance missions during that emergency, 29 January 1949.

First muster of the East Regiment (present-day Massachusetts Army National Guard) in Salem, Massachusetts Bay Colony, Spring 1637

Captain John McMahn and Sergeant White, of the 182nd Fighter-Bomber Squadron, Texas Air National Guard, close out flight records at Taegu AB (K-2), South Korea, following their F-84E Thunderjet becoming the first such aircraft to complete 1,000 flying hours, 1952

An Air National Guard Lockheed F-104A-25-LO Starfighter (AF Ser. No. 56-0863) from the 157th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, South Carolina Air National Guard, at McEntire Air National Guard Base, South Carolina

Following the 1992 Los Angeles riots, 4,000 National Guardsmen patrolled the city.

F-84F Thunderstreaks of the 110th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 131st Tactical Fighter Wing, Missouri Air National Guard, Toul Air Base, France – Deployed as a result of the Berlin Crisis 1961/62

The National Guard Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C.

An F-104A Starfighter interceptor from the 157th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, South Carolina Air National Guard, being loaded aboard a C-124 Globemaster II for shipment to Europe during the Berlin crisis, 1961

A South Carolina Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook supporting the South Carolina Forestry Commission to contain a remote fire near the top of Pinnacle Mountain in Pickens County, South Carolina, November 17, 2016

A ground crew preparing an F-100 of the Colorado Air National Guard's 120th Tactical Fighter Squadron for combat missions at Phan Rang Air Base, South Vietnam, 1968

An Army National Guardsman of the 1st Battalion, 151st Infantry Regiment in Parun, Afghanistan. Note that he is wearing a 10th Mountain Division Former Wartime Service SSI.

A Lockheed EC-121S Coronet Solo from the 193rd Tactical Electric Warfare Group, Pennsylvania Air National Guard

A National Guardsman guarding the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C. during the George Floyd protests, June 2020.

110th Tactical Fighter Squadron McDonnell F-4C-23-MC Phantom II, AF Ser. No. 64-0749, of the Missouri ANG at Lambert Field ANGB, St Louis, MO, 1980

A-7 Corsair II aircraft of the Iowa ANG and South Dakota ANG flying near RAF Waddington, UK. These aircraft were deployed to the United Kingdom from 21 August to 12 September 1979 for NATO Exercise CORONET STALLION.

A New York Air National Guard F-16 pilot from the 174th Tactical Fighter Wing, 138th Tactical Fighter Squadron, preparing to take-off on a combat mission from a Saudi Arabian base during Operation Desert Storm, 1991

A Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II (AF Ser. No. 78-0652) from the 138th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 174th Tactical Fighter Wing, New York Air National Guard

An Air National Guard A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft from the 104th Fighter Group, Massachusetts Air National Guard, taxis on the runway at Aviano Air Base, Italy to take off for NATO airstrikes against the Bosnian Serbs, 6 September 1995

Emblem of the 107th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron, Michigan Air National Guard. Used at Balad Air Base during Operation Iraqi Freedom

An F-15C Eagle from 102nd Fighter Wing, Massachusetts Air National Guard, flies a combat air patrol over New York City as part of Operation Noble Eagle. F-15s from the 102nd were the first to arrive on scene over the World Trade Center following the September 11 terrorist attacks.

F-16s of the 119th Fighter Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard, flying a combat air patrol over Washington, DC, and the Pentagon in Operation Noble Eagle, November 2001

Personnel assigned to the 321st Air Expeditionary Squadron offloading supplies from a C-130H Hercules aircraft assigned to the 187th Airlift Squadron, 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard, at Kandahar, Afghanistan, during Operation Enduring Freedom

Paktia Province, Afghanistan, 4 March 2002, Technical Sergeant Keary Miller of the 123rd Special Tactics Squadron, Kentucky Air National Guard, not only managed to drag a wounded helicopter pilot to safety at Taka Ghur, but also orchestrated the establishment of multiple casualty collection points. In between treating the wounded, Miller set up the distribution of ammunition for the Army Rangers who were taking the fight to the enemy. For his extraordinary life-saving efforts while putting himself in extreme danger under enemy fire, Sergeant Miller was awarded the Silver Star. (Keith Rocco, The Battle of Takur Ghar, National Guard Heritage Painting.)

Munitions personnel from the 160th Fighter Squadron, 187th Fighter Wing, Alabama Air National Guard, assigned to the 410th Air Expeditionary Wing at a forward deployed location work on guided munitions on the pylon of one of their F-16C Fighting Falcons. The Falcon has an AIM-120A Advanced Medium Air-to-Air Missile fixed to the wing tip. The 410th Air Expeditionary Wing prepares the aircraft for take off for sorties on A-Day, the commencement of the air war for Operation Iraqi Freedom, 19 March 2003.

Commando Solo EC-130E from the 193rd Special Operations Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard, sits on the ramp at undisclosed location during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom in late 2005

A C-130E Hercules cargo aircraft from the 146th Airlift Wing, California Air National Guard,
rigged with a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) making a Phos-Chek fire retardant drop on the Simi Fire in Southern California, 28 October 2003

Members of the Indiana Air National Guard participating in an emergency operation after recent flooding in Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1 March 1982

LC-130Hs equipped with landing skis, operated by the 139th Airlift Squadron, 109th Airlift Wing, New York Air National Guard, parked on the ice pack at McMurdo Station at Ross Island in Antarctica during Operation Deep Freeze 2001. The unit operates six LC-130s between Christchurch, New Zealand, and a number of U.S. National Science Foundation stations located on the Antarctic ice pack, 5 November 2001. (Photographer: MSgt Joe Cupido, Air Force photo)

U.S. Air Force Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, the 28th Chief of the National Guard Bureau, conducts a transition of responsibility order for newly promoted Lt. Gen. Michael A. Loh during a Change of Responsibility ceremony at the Pentagon July 28, 2020.

It, along with each state's, district's, commonwealth's or territory's Army National Guard component, makes up the National Guard of each state and the districts, commonwealths and territories as applicable.

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The National Guard is a joint activity of the United States Department of Defense (DoD) composed of reserve components of the United States Army and the United States Air Force: the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard, respectively.

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Army National Guard

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Shoulder sleeve insignia of the 47th Infantry Division, inactivated in 1991

Shoulder sleeve insignia of the 50th Armored Division, inactivated in 1993

National Guard Bureau organizational chart depicting command and reporting relationships

Army National Guard staff organizational chart

Chief of the National Guard Bureau Gen. Daniel R. Hokanson administers the oath of office to Lt. Gen. Jon A. Jensen as the 22nd director of the Army National Guard on Monday, Aug. 10, 2020 at the Temple Army National Guard Readiness Center in Arlington, Virginia.

The Army National Guard (ARNG), in conjunction with the Air National Guard, is an organized militia force and a federal military reserve force of the United States Army.

They are simultaneously part of two different organizations: the Army National Guard of each state, most territories, and the District of Columbia (also referred to as the Militia of the United States), and the Army National Guard of the United States (as part of the federalized National Guard).

Reserve components of the United States Armed Forces

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The reserve components of the United States Armed Forces are military organizations whose members generally perform a minimum of 39 days of military duty per year and who augment the active duty (or full-time) military when necessary.

There are seven reserve components of the U.S. military, which are divided into two categories; regular reserves and National Guard.

Air National Guard

The U.S. ideal of the citizen soldier, in the militia, depicted by The Concord Minute Man of 1775, a monument created by Daniel Chester French and erected in 1875, in Concord, Massachusetts.

Militia (United States)

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The militia of the United States, as defined by the U.S. Congress, has changed over time.

First Muster, Spring 1637, Massachusetts Bay Colony

The Battle of Lexington, April 19th, 1775. Blue coated militiamen in the foreground flee from the volley of gunshots from the red coated British Army line in the background with dead and wounded militiamen on the ground.

Kentucky Mounted Militia riflemen at the Battle of the Thames in October 1813, riding into battle as mounted infantry.

1826 North Carolina militia roster of 86 men, standard wage of 46 1⁄2 cents per day. Text reads: "A List of that Part of the Millitia Commanded by Elisha Burk an went after the Runaway Negroes. ... The within is a True Return of that part of the Millitia Commanded by Elisha Burk While out after the Runaway Negroes: Given under my hand this 15th day of August 1826". (signed) Elisha Burk Captain.

New York state militia, Civil War Company "E", 22nd N.Y. State Militia, near Harpers Ferry.

Organized militia – consisting of State Defense Forces, the National Guard and Naval Militia.

The National Guard of the United States maintains two subcomponents: the Army National Guard of the United States for the Army and the Air Force's Air National Guard of the United States.

State adjutant general

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Each state in the United States has a senior military officer, as the state adjutant general, who is the de facto commander of a state's military forces, including the National Guard residing within the state, the state's naval militia, and any state defense forces.

Each adjutant general commands their state's Army and Air National Guard units which are not on federal active duty.

Troops of the Territorial Army of Belarus.

Military reserve force

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Military organization whose members simultaneously hold military and civilian occupations.

Reservists responding to the call, at the beginning of the Franco-Prussian War (1870).

Finnish conscripts giving their military oath.

U.S. Army Reserve private first class during the 2015 Army Reserve Best Warrior Competition at Fort Bragg in 2015

A sergeant from the Irish Army Reserve leading a tactical exercise

Canadian Army Reserve warrant officer during Warrior Exercise (WAREX) in 2014

British Army Reserve lieutenant colonel during a training exercise at Lulworth Cove in Dorset

Soldiers of the Ukrainian Territorial Defense Forces during the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

In some cases, a militia, home guard, state guard, or state military may constitute part of a military reserve force, such as the United States National Guard, the Norwegian Home Guard, the Swedish Home Guard, and the Danish Home Guard.

Air National Guard of the United States

Puerto Rico

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Caribbean island and unincorporated territory of the United States.

A 20th-century reconstruction of an 8th-century Taíno village, located at the spot where their ballpark and remains were discovered in 1975, in the aftermath of Hurricane Eloise.

Artist's depiction of Juan Ponce de León, Puerto Rico's first governor

Hendricksz 1625 attack on San Juan, Puerto Rico

Sugar haciendas, like the one portrayed above, ran a significant portion of the Puerto Rican economy in the late 19th century

The 16th-century Spanish colonial-era fort, Castillo San Felipe del Morro (background), in San Juan

The flag flown by Fidel Vélez and his men during the "Intentona de Yauco" revolt

The Lares revolutionary flag of 1868, also known as the "First Puerto Rican Flag" in Puerto Rico

Monument commemorating the 1873 abolition of slavery in Puerto Rico, located in Ponce

Artistic rendering of the 1898 Bombardment of San Juan by American forces during the Spanish–American War

The first company of Puerto Ricans enlisted in the U.S. Army, within a year of the U.S. invasion

The first Supreme Court of Puerto Rico, appointed pursuant to the Foraker Act

Soldiers of the 65th Infantry training at Camp Santiago, Salinas, Puerto Rico (August 1941)

Painting of a bayonet charge by the U.S. 65th Infantry Regiment, made up of Puerto Rican troops, against a Chinese division during the Korean War

Chart demonstrating how the economy of Puerto Rico shifted from agriculture to manufacturing by showing how the salaried employees during Operation Bootstrap significantly increased manufacturing jobs (green line) while decreasing agricultural jobs (blue line).

Beach and coastline at Patillas, in southeast Puerto Rico

NOAA Bathymetry Image of Puerto Rico (2020)

Enlargeable, detailed map of Puerto Rico

Köppen climate types in Puerto Rico indicating that the island primarily has rainforest and monsoon climate types.

Sunday mass, Stella Maris Parish, San Juan, Puerto Rico

The difference between the incumbent party, the PPD, and its opponent, the PNP, was a mere 0.6% in the last election. This difference is common as the political landscape experiences political cycles between both parties, with the PPD ruling all branches of government for 36 of the past 64 years. The PNP, on the other hand, has ruled both the executive and legislative branch concurrently for 16 years. The other 12 years experienced a divided government.

The Capitol of Puerto Rico, home of the Legislative Assembly in Puerto Rico

U.S. military installations and other federal lands in Puerto Rico (including the United States Virgin Islands) throughout the 20th century

ballistic missile submarine USS Maryland, Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, 1997

A map of Puerto Rico showing its 78 municipalities; the islands of Vieques and Culebra have their own municipal governments

Real GDP per capita development of Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico's gross domestic product (GDP) by economic sector

The 2012 Budget of the government of Puerto Rico

A map of the Jones Act merchant marine shipping routes for Puerto Rico

Plantain "arañitas" and "tostones rellenos"

San Juan 450th 1971 issue, depicting one of the [[:File:Lookout Station.JPG|garitas]] of El Morro

Puerto Rico Islanders fans at a soccer game

The Tren Urbano system at Bayamón Station

The Insular Police, similar to the National Guard, opened fire upon unarmed cadets and bystanders alike.

The local National Guard also incorporates a branch of the U.S. Air National Guard – known as the Puerto Rico Air National Guard – which performs missions equivalent to those of the Air National Guards of each one of the U.S. states.

National Guard Bureau

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The National Guard Bureau is the federal instrument responsible for the administration of the National Guard established by the United States Congress as a joint bureau of the Department of the Army and the Department of the Air Force.

Under the National Security Act of July 26, 1947, Congress approved the creation of a separate division within the National Guard Bureau for the Air National Guard, thus transferring the functions, powers, and duties from the Department of the Army and the Secretary of the Army to the Department of the Air Force and the Secretary of the Air Force.