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The Maryland Army National Guard’s 1st Battalion, 175th Infantry Regiment conducts live fire training at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst in N.J., during their June 6-20, 2015, annual training. (Video by Sgt. 1st Class Thaddeus Harrington, Maryland Public Affairs Office)
The Maryland Army National Guard conducted water bucket training with a CH-47 Chinook helicopter on the Edgewood Area of Aberdeen Proving Ground on May 20, 2015. The Soldiers are practicing in order to assist firefighters if deployed to help stop a forest fire. (Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Thaddeus Harrington, Maryland National Guard Public Affairs Office)
The Maryland Army National Guard’s 1st Squadron, 158th Calvary Regiment (Long Range Surveillance) conducted fast rope insertion and extraction training at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, on April 11, 2015. In the event of a non-viable landing situation, these Maryland Guard Soldiers are able to deploy to an area and quickly react to a situation. Pilots and flight crew from the …
MIDDLE RIVER, Md. (Feb. 10, 2014) – On a cold, overcast weekend, the Maryland National Guard’s 231st Chemical Company and 175th Civil Engineering Fire and Emergency Services Flight conducted joint HAZMAT training at Warfield Air National Guard Base in Middle River, Md., on Feb. 8-9, 2014. “[This is] the first time that we’ve done any joint training with another branch,” …
BALTIMORE (Feb. 11, 2014) – The United States Army Air Forces, which became the U.S. Air Force in 1947, was home to the 332nd Fighter Group “Redtails” piloted by the Tuskegee Airmen. Until 1948 women were not to allowed to serve in the U.S. military. On May 15, 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the bill into law that established …
In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation declared freedom for slaves in states not under Union control, allowing blacks to fight for the Union. That same year, the 19th Regiment Infantry, U.S. Colored Troops, Maryland Volunteers was formed in Benedict, Md. The 19th was comprised of a mixture of free blacks and of slaves purchased by the U.S. government for their …
WESTMINSTER, Md. (Dec. 21, 2013) – High school football players from across Maryland competed in the sixth annual Maryland Crab Bowl senior all-star game at McDaniel College, Gill Stadium, Dec. 21, 2013. The college was home to the Baltimore Ravens’ summer training camp until the 2011 season. The Maryland State High School Football All-Star Game, started the Maryland Crab Bowl …
During my a part of deployment I was stationed at Camp Taji, Iraq, also known as Camp Cooke, in honor of Command Sgt. Maj. Eric F. Cooke. It’s an area about 20 miles north of Baghdad. The place is in the Sunni Triangle, was an Iraqi Republican Guard base and served as a manufacture center for chemical weapons. Taji became …
While on an assignment in Estonia this website was hacked by some international yoyo. I restored the site within 30 minutes. I guess I was hit by a baby hacker, how cute. I’m flattered that someone thought so much about me to hack my site. Not sure how hacking me does anything for their movement. Now I can continue updating …
BALTIMORE (Sept. 3, 2013) – Sundown on September 4 marks the beginning of the Jewish New Year Rosh Hashanah. Maryland Defense Force Chaplain (Capt.) Chesky Tenenbaum, the first bearded defense force chaplain of any state, held a pre-Rosh Hashanah service for Maryland Guard Service members at the Fifth Regiment Armory. Translated from Hebrew as “Head of the Year,” Rosh Hashanah celebrates …
