A report on National Guard (United States) and Chief of the National Guard Bureau

Seal of the National Guard Bureau, 2013 to present

General Daniel R. Hokanson, incoming chief of the National Guard Bureau, receives the NGB command guidon from Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on August 3, 2020.

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

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

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

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

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

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

The chief of the National Guard Bureau (CNGB) is the highest-ranking officer of the National Guard and the head of the National Guard Bureau.

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The National Guard Bureau is headed by the Chief of the National Guard Bureau (CNGB), who is a four-star general in the Army or Air Force and is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

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Army National Guard

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Organized militia force and a federal military reserve force of the United States Army.

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.

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).

Each were headed by a major general who reported to the chief of the National Guard Bureau.

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.

As of December 31, 2011, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

National Defense Act of 1920

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Sponsored by United States Representative Julius Kahn, Republican of California.

Brigadier General John McAuley Palmer, military theorist and advocate for the National Guard

Major General George C. Rickards, the first National Guard officer to serve as Chief of the National Guard Bureau

Seal of the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, based on design for Army Industrial College.

Advocated by John McAuley Palmer and other proponents of the National Guard, the legislation established the Army of the United States as an organization of three components: a) the Regular Army, b) the National Guard, and c) the Organized Reserve.

First, it directed that the Chief of the Militia Bureau be a National Guard officer as a way to better coordinate activities between the Army General Staff and the National Guard.