National Guard News
U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Robert Williams, right, Washington Army National Guard, receives the Recruiting and Retention Noncommissioned Officer of the Year award from Lt. Gen. Jon Jensen, director of the Army National Guard, at the Director’s Strength Maintenance Awards Conference in Houston March 14, 2024. The conference enabled recruiting and retention Soldiers to network, exchange best practices, and honor the Army National Guard’s best recruiters.

Army Guard Recognizes Top Recruiting, Retention ...

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Mar. 28, 2024

HOUSTON – More than 40 Soldiers in pristine World War II-style Army green dress uniforms lined the wall of a...
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The Vermont The Vermont National Guard, shown working at the Thies Regional Hospital in Thies, Senegal, as part of a medical readiness exercise organized by the State Partnership Program, has partnered with Senegal under the program since 2008. The Burlington, Vermont, City Council voted unanimously March 25, 2024, to forge a sister city relationship with Thies-East, Senegal.

Vermont City Builds on Guard's Partnership with ...

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Mar. 28, 2024

BURLINGTON, Vt. - The Burlington City Council voted unanimously March 25 to forge a sister-city relationship...
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Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief, National Guard Bureau, and SEA Tony Whitehead, senior enlisted advisor to the CNGB, visit National Guardsmen deployed within the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility March 15, 2024.

The Hometown Heroes of Tower 22

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Mar. 27, 2024

UNDISCLOSED LOCATION - The Guardsmen hailed from hometowns across America, but when they found themselves...
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First Army

First Army is the oldest and longest-established field army of the United States Army. It served as a theater army, having seen service in both World War I and World War II, and supplied the US Army with Soldiers and equipment during the Korean War and the Vietnam war under some of the most famous and distinguished officers of the U.S. Army. It now serves as a mobilization, readiness and training command. First Army partners with the Army National Guard and the US Army reserve, to enable Reserve Component formations to achieve HQDA directed readiness goals and deliver trained and ready RC units.

VISION: The finest warfighting advisors delivering a lethal Total Force ready for combat.

MISSION: First Army partners with the Army National Guard and Army Reserve to enable leaders and deliver trained and ready units for Combatant Commands. On order, executes large scale mobilization and [re]constitution to build America's Army for combat! 


Location:  

The United States First Army Headquarters is located at Rock Island Arsenal, IL.  Arsenal Island is a 946-acre island in the Mississippi River that is centrally located within the Illinois and Iowa bi-state metropolitan area known as the Quad Cities.  The Quad Cities consists of Davenport, IA; Bettendorf, IA; Rock Island, IL; Moline and East Moline, IL.

Division East is at Fort Knox, KY, and Division West at Fort Hood, TX, with ten geographically dispersed brigades throughout the United States.

First Army has operational control of the 85th Army Reserve Support Command, headquartered at Arlington Heights, IL. 

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