by admin | Sep 7, 2005 | Politics / Govt
A federal judge has tossed out Missouri’s lawsuit to stop the Pentagon from closing an Air National Guard unit in St. Louis. Governor Matt Blunt says this does not mean the shutdown of the 131st Fighter Wing based at Lambert-St. Louis Airport is a done deal...
by admin | Sep 6, 2005 | News
About 1,500 displaced Americans from the hurricane devastated areas of the Gulf Coast are already being housed in a number of Missouri locations – and many more are headed our way. Missouri National Guard Adjutant General King Sidwell believes that when all is...
by admin | Aug 31, 2005 | News
More than a thousand members of the Missouri Army and Air National Guard are heading to Louisiana and Mississippi to help in the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. Adjutant General King Sidwell says the deployment will not affect the Missouri Guard’s ability to...
by admin | Aug 24, 2005 | Military
The State’s commission designed to help keep military bases in Missouri is meeting Thursday in Jefferson City, amid the backdrop of the Base Realignment and Closure Commission voting on which bases nationwide will be kept and which will close. The Chairman of...
by admin | Jul 24, 2005 | Military, Politics / Govt
West-central Missouri Congressman Ike Skelton expresses disbelief that the Air Force cannot tell him whether it researched the law that says a Governor must give permission for a National Guard base to be closed – before the Pentagon recommended such closings....
