by admin | Oct 11, 2006 | Military
A Missouri Army National Guard sergeant has been killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq. The Guard says Lee Roy Parrish of Lebanon died of injuries suffered October 7th. Parrish was a member of the 110th Engineer Battalion, headquartered in Kansas City. Another member of...
by admin | Aug 9, 2006 | News
The Missouri National Guard is getting a new unit that could help it provide better response to a natural disaster. The Pentagon has approved formation of the 1138th Transportation company, which will have headquarters at Jefferson Barracks, with a detachment in...
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...
