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  • Northern Strike underway in Michigan

    LANSING, Mich. – Northern Strike  26-2, one of the Department of War’s largest reserve component readiness exercises, is taking place now across the National All-Domain Warfighting Center until August 14, 2026.WHO: Michigan National Guard to include over 9,000 participants from 36 states and

  • Northern Strike returns to Michigan

    LANSING, Mich. – Northern Strike 26-2, one of the Department of War’s largest reserve component readiness exercises, returns to Michigan Aug. 3-14, bringing together more than 9,000 military personnel from 36 states and territories and five countries for realistic, multi-domain training across

  • Guard Units Hone Tactical Readiness at Sentry North Exercise

    MADISON, Wis. – About 20 National Guard units participated in the Air National Guard’s Sentry North 2026, a two-week exercise that included counter-air operations against peer adversaries designed to hone their tactical readiness and combat lethality.Sentry North, which ended June 11 and was held at

  • Michigan, Rhode Island Guardsmen Complete Rocket Training

    ALPENA, Mich. – Michigan National Guard Soldiers and Rhode Island National Guard Airmen completed a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System Rapid Infiltration, or HIRAIN, from Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, Michigan, to Fort Irwin, California, during the National Guard's Minuteman Rotation,

  • Combat communications, air control squadrons integrate in austere conditions

    Dozens of military trucks rumbled into an empty field of gravel, sand, scattered brush and long grass. Under the heat of a baking sun and plagued by swarms of mosquitoes, more than 200 airmen from the 269th Combat Communications Squadron out of Springfield, Ohio, and the 123rd Air Control Squadron

  • Michigan to host DoW drone initiative qualifying event in June

    LANSING, Mich. – The Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs announced that key Michigan National Guard training venues will host the Department of War's Drone Dominance Program Gauntlet Phase II Qualifying Event, from June 8 -20, 2026. The qualifying event, will bring together

  • Freudenburg takes command of Alpena training center

    U.S. Air Force Lt. Col. Lucas Freudenburg became the 15th commander of the Michigan Air National Guard’s Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center in a formal ceremony on the base, Dec. 12, 2025 Freudenberg replaced Col. Michael Whitefoot in the post.Freudenburg, an MQ-9 Reaper aircraft pilot, most

  • Combat service support team breaks new ground during Northern Strike

    Members of the U.S. Air Force’s 23rd Air Task Force’s Combat Service Support Team from Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., broke new ground Aug. 9, 2025, when they completed the first-ever rapid runway repair operation on a live runway in Department of Defense history.During the

  • Combat service support team breaks new ground during Northern Strike

    Members of the U.S. Air Force’s 23rd Air Task Force’s Combat Service Support Team from Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, Washington, D.C., broke new ground Aug. 9, 2025, when they completed the first-ever rapid runway repair operation on a live runway in Department of Defense history.During the

  • Silent Swarm 25 brings innovation, experimentation to Alpena

    Fifty companies, representing more than 65 experiments, joined the U.S. Navy, Michigan National Guard (MING) and other agencies in Alpena, Michigan, for two weeks in July to showcase new and emerging technologies designed to allow the military to address evolving threats and stay at the forefront of