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To facilitate the dual function of the National Guard Bureau, the Departments of the Army and Air Force, along with the NGB, reorganized the latter agency on October 1, 1948. This reorganization established the NGB as a Bureau of the Department of the Army and an agency of the Department of the Air Force.
The chief of the National Guard Bureau (CNGB) is the highest-ranking officer of the National Guard and the head of the National Guard Bureau. [1] The position is a statutory office (10 U.S.C. § 10502), held by a federally recognized commissioned officer who has served at least 10 years of federally recognized active duty in the National Guard; the Army National Guard or the Air National Guard ...
Owing to the deployment of active duty troops to the intensifying Vietnam War, Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara established the Selected Reserve Force, composed of Army National Guard units authorized at a full wartime strength of almost 4,500 men and given increased priority for the receipt of new equipment so that they could be mobilized within a week.
NGB can refer to: . National Geographic Bee, an annual geography contest in the United States; National governing body, a sport governing body for a nation; National Guard Bureau, the federal instrument responsible for the administration of the United States National Guard
On 1 July 1966, the 459th was redesignated the 459th Military Airlift Wing and converted to a strategic, long-range mission with the Douglas C-124 Globemaster II aircraft. In June 1971, the 459th converted to the Lockheed C-130 Hercules and was redesignated as the 459th Tactical Airlift Wing.
On 19 June 1967 during Operation Concordia 6 companies from the 3rd and 4th Battalions, 47th Infantry Regiment engaged the Vietcong in Cần Giuộc District and the command & control UH-1 Crocker was flying in was shot down by small arms fire and crash-landed in a paddyfield, they were rescued shortly afterwards by another UH-1. Crocker was ...
Re-designated: 1 Air Force on 26 March 1941 Re-designated: First Air Force on 18 September 1942 Discontinued on 23 June 1958. Activated on 20 January 1966; Organized on 1 April 1966 Inactivated on 31 December 1969. Activated on 6 December 1985, assuming assets of Air Defense, Tactical Air Command (Inactivated)
Joseph F. Jarrard is a United States Army major general who served as the Director of Operations of the National Guard Bureau from September 2022 to June 2024. [1] He most recently served as the Deputy Commanding General for Army National Guard of the United States Army Europe and Africa from April 1, 2019, to March 25, 2022.