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Members of the Rhode Island National Guard will deploy to Washington, D.C., to help keep order during the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden next week amid heightened security concerns after the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. As many as 100 members of the 142d Airlift Wing and 56th Troop Command will travel to Washington to "support the inauguration and provide traffic control, logistics, planning and other support functions," said Guard spokesman Capt. Mark A. Incze. The Rhode Island National Guard is going at the request of the District of Columbia National Guard, Incze said. Th...

War clouds began building in fall 1990. Iraq’s army, under orders from its strongman President Saddam Hussein, rolled across the border into Kuwait on Aug. 2, 1990. Hussein made the unsubstantiated claim Iraq’s neighbor to...

Dave Dixon, a retired Nevada Army National Guardsman, remembers how dedicated his longtime friend was to serving both his nation and state. Like so many soldiers who knew Don Gable, Dixon and others referred to...

Photos Circulate of National Guard Members in Riot Gear Sleeping in Capitol On 1/13/21 at 12:07 PM EST Photos circulated across social media on Tuesday and Wednesday show National Guard members sleeping on the floors of the U.S. Capitol, ahead of the House's debate on an article of impeachment against President Donald Trump. "Right now [Monday], we have approximately 6,200 National Guard soldiers and airmen from six states and the District of Columbia on the ground in the NCR [National Capitol Region] supporting civilian authorities," Army General Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard ...

By SLOBODAN LEKIC, JOHN VANDIVER AND KARIN ZEITVOGEL | STARS AND STRIPES Published: January 2, 2021 Twelve service members died on overseas deployments to designated combat zones in Africa, Kosovo and the Arabian peninsula region, including waterways, in 2020. One other soldier was killed in a terrorist attack in Kenya, which is not a designated combat zone. The most deadly of the incidents was a helicopter crash in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt in November, in which five American troops died and one was injured. The Americans were part of an international peacekeeping force that monitors c...