Home of Jewish War Veterans Online Post 77
Pennsylvania is currently mobilizing its largest contingent of National Guard since World War II. My unit, the 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, is currently at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, getting it in gear for deployment to Iraq. A few weeks prior to mobilization, I worked feverishly to have a lay program put together. The Aleph Institute was particularly helpful with materials, […]
Read moreBy Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill National Guard Bureau BALADIA CITY, Israel – National Guard Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen could one day exercise at a state-of-the-art urban warfare training center here. From a distance, the National Urban Training Center (NUTC) looks like a bustling desert town. But it’s a purpose-built mock-up on a real-life scale designed as a training ground for military […]
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Editor’s Note: A previous article detailing LTG Blum’s trip to Masada in Israel came from the National Guard news. This is another of three articles in the On Guard about the trip. By Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill National Guard Bureau HAIFA, Israel – Studying how to respond to sustained terrorist attacks against a U.S. city, National Guard leaders visited Haifa, which […]
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Editor’s Note: I’m sure LTG Blum would find many of his American Jewish Soldiers feel the same way about Masada as their Israeli counterparts. At Masada, a glimpse into the Israeli soul By Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill National Guard Bureau MASADA, Israel – This ancient fort atop a Judean Desert butte 1,300-feet above the Dead Sea offers a glimpse into […]
Read moreLieutenant General Blum and 91-year-old Jewish Veteran Agree By Staff Sgt. Jim Greenhill National Guard Bureau BOSTON, Ma. (8/22/2007) – As the chief of the National Guard Bureau bragged about today’s Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen to sports commentators at Fenway Park, a 91-year-old World War II veteran sitting in the stands below the broadcasting booth made much the same claims on […]
Read moreThe Army National Guard (link here) is launching a new suicide prevention campaign. Statistics have shown that suicide is the third highest killer of citizen Soldiers in the past year. 47 died in combat, 45 in accidents, and 42 were lost to suicide. As the linked article points out, the active duty component has many resources allocated to suicide prevention. […]
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Two National Guard divisions, the 42nd and the 45th, liberated Dachau in April of 1945. LTG H. Steven Blum, the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, visited the Dachau Camp Memorial as he headed to a trip through Germany and the Balkans supporting the State Partnership Program. It’s the Chief’s belief that the State Partnership Program can help fulfill […]
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