by admin | Jul 28, 2006 | Weather
A changing of the guard in St. Louis—- The National Guard Unit that has been providing the bulk of the Guard presence during storm cleanup is heading home this weekend, replaced with another unit. The Guard’s Captain Tammy Spicer says the summer training...
by admin | Jun 13, 2006 | Military, Politics / Govt
A host of veterans’ legislation is signed into law by Governor Matt Blunt, including bills to help veterans in need to access governmental benefits. One bill, sponsored by Kansas City Representative Michael Brown, allows homeless veterans to use the post office...
by admin | Jun 7, 2006 | Military
West central Missouri Congressman Ike Skelton says a real lack of information to the Missouri National Guard and Congress seems to be an unsettling fact of how the Guard’s deployments to the border with Mexico seem to be going. Skelton says he was shocked last...
by admin | Jun 5, 2006 | Military
Some western states have started sending National Guardsmen to the border with Mexico to help beleagured U.S. Border Patrol agents, but Guardsmen in this state are being kept in the dark about when – or even if – they would have to go and what they would...
by admin | May 18, 2006 | Military
A Missouri soldier in the often-overlooked part of the war on terror says significant progress in nation-building is being made, but it’s slow work. National Guard Colonel Todd Higgins of Jefferson City is the chief engineer for the combined security transition...
