by Mike Lear | Jun 20, 2012 | Military, News
The National Guard wants to extend more than 900 invitations to alumni of its Officers Candidate School. There have been problems locating all of them, however. Spokesman Bill Phelan explains, “When the Officer’s Candidate School started in 1962, everything was...
by Mike Lear | Dec 26, 2011 | News, Science / Technology
Between the Missouri National Guard’s Ike Skelton Training Center and Algoa Correctional Center, out in a field on Guard property and about a meter beneath the surface of the earth lie the possible remnants of a Native American settlement. The site is believed...
by Mike Lear | Dec 23, 2011 | Military, News
The last Missouri National Guard members have returned to the state as part of the U.S. military’s withdrawal from Iraq. Major General Stephen Danner says the 23 members of the 139th Airlift Wing of the Air National Guard are home just in time to be with their...
by admin | Oct 15, 2009 | News
The Missouri National Guard has developed a prevention program to protect personnel from the H1N1 flu virus – also known as the Swine Flu. In essence, the Guard is gearing up for what might happen down the road. “The National Guard wants to sort of nip a...