A Mexican Senate commission has approved the entry of members of the U.S. Army’s 7th Special Forces Group (Airborne) into the ...

Active-duty and reserve forces operate under federal command. Sometimes the National Guard can too. Different laws govern when a president "federalize" the Guard, with special circumstances. The US ...

Like the reserves and active forces, National Guard troops go through basic training with follow-on specialized job training. They hold specific military jobs, which can include anything from ...

The South Dakota National Guard presented three awards for distinguished service, including an award to the Neuhardt family of Rapid City.

Around 550 soldiers with the Illinois Army National Guard will be deployed overseas in support of Operation Spartan Shield, ...

With that order, what we now know as America's National Guard was born. The idea was simple: Establish an Army of citizen-soldiers ... to join our active-duty forces overseas or to put their ...

United States Army Forces Command consists of more than 750,000 Active Army, U.S. Army Reserve, and Army National Guard soldiers. FORSCOM is the largest United States Army command and provider of ...

TULSA, Okla. — A security guard at Saint Francis Hospital had an unexpected visitor on Feb. 7 when he helped deliver a baby in the hospital's circle drive. Surveillance video shows the father ...

Armed forces must only be used as legitimate defence, never to dominate another country, a breathless Pope Francis said Sunday, presiding over an outdoor mass despite a bout of bronchitis.