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The history of presidents activating US troops on American soil
U.S. presidents have rarely federalized the National Guard to intervene in protests on U.S. soil.
Coast Guard icebreaker Polar Star heading to Arctic as COVID-19 limits Antarctic operations
The crew of the Polar Star, the U.S. Coast Guard’s only working heavy-duty icebreaker, is preparing for a rare mission north to the Arctic after the coronavirus pandemic scuttled their usual journey.
Four troops have died of coronavirus complications in as many weeks
A North Dakota Army National Guard master sergeant died Nov. 24.
National Guard chaplains reflect on Floyd protests, lessons learned
Chaplains say they’re working on two main lessons learned from those tumultuous times.
By Giovanna Dell'Orto
31 charged in Coast Guard test-fixing scheme, prosecutors say
A U.S. Coast Guard employee took bribes to fix exams for merchant mariners to get licenses for positions on ships, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of Louisiana said.
A Hawaii Guardsman is the 11th military, and second Air Force COVID-19 death
A 52-year-old Hawaii Air National Guardsman died of COVID-19 on Nov. 15.
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard launches aircraft-carrying ship
Photos showed the ship carrying truck-launched surface-to-surface missiles, anti-aircraft missiles and four small fast boats.
US attack risks ‘full-fledged war,’ says adviser to Iran’s leader
An adviser to Iran's supreme leader warned against any American military escalation in Trump’s final weeks in office.
By Jon Gambrell, The Associated Press
Iranian attacks are down, but not over, CENTCOM commander says
Iranian attacks on U.S. forces have gone down, but there's no reason to believe they're going away.
No, the National Guard didn’t try to thwart a CIA plot to steal the election
National Guard officials deny a "ludicrous" theory that Guardsmen were involved in an election-related conspiracy.
By Davis Winkie
The nurse soldier: Why nurses and soldiers are more similar than you think
The stark differences between the two callings, though obvious, are completely overpowered by the similarities between nursing and soldiering, says a National Guard soldier and civilian nurse in this commentary.
By Sgt. Leann Roggensack