by admin | May 16, 2006 | Military
Missouri’s National Guard is ready for Mexican border duty if President Bush calls it to duty. Governor Matt Blunt, the Guard commander in chief, says Missouri will respond to the President’s call for six-thousand National Guard members to help control...
by admin | May 8, 2006 | Military
A member of the Missouri Army National Guard has died of combat related injuries in Iraq. Private First Class Alva Gaylord of Carrollton was killed on May 5th, when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Gaylord had been a member of the National...
by admin | Mar 7, 2006 | Military
Members of the Missouri Air National Guard’s 131st Fighter Wing will soon be leaving their home at Lambert Field in St. Louis to become the first National Guard unit in the country to fly the B-2 Stealth Bomber at Whiteman Air Force Base in West Central...
by admin | Jan 25, 2006 | Military
Missouri’s senior U.S. Senator takes exception to a Pentagon-sponsored report that says the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have stretched the U.S. Army nearly to the breaking point. Senator Kit Bond admits he has not read the report and says even if that’s...
by admin | Dec 13, 2005 | Crime / Courts, Military
Attorney General Jay Nixon has sued Secretary of Defense Don Rumsfeld to keep Rumsfeld from closing the Missouri National Guard’s 131st Fighter Wing at St. Louis Lambert Airport. Nixon says Rumsfeld has to get the Governor’s permission to do this, which...
