by Dar Danielson | May 29, 2023 | Human Interest, Military, News
The leader of the Iowa National Guard, Brigadier General Stephen Osborn, was the keynote speaker at today’s Memorial Day ceremony at the Iowa Veterans Cemetery near Van Meter. Osborn talked about the long history of the Iowa National Guard in supporting the...
by Dar Danielson | May 10, 2023 | Military, News
Nearly 80 members of the Iowa Army National Guard unit based in Iowa City will be welcomed home in a public ceremony Friday. The soldiers from the 209th Medical Company deployed to Poland in July in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve and NATO’s Enhanced...
by O. Kay Henderson | Apr 14, 2023 | News, Politics & Government
Iowa Congressman Zach Nunn says it appears there were “multiple breakdowns” that led to the apparent theft of top secret Pentagon documents that were leaked on the internet. A 21-year-old Massachusetts Air National Guardsman was arrested Thursday and he...
by Dar Danielson | Apr 11, 2023 | Human Interest, Military, News
An F-80 fighter jet from the 1950’s took to the air again Tuesday with a little help as it returned from the 185th Air Guard Refueling Wing base in Sioux City to the Iowa Goldstar Museum at Camp Dodge. The F-80 was airlifted back to Johnston by a Chinook...
by O. Kay Henderson | Jan 18, 2023 | Military, News
The Iowa National Guard’s adjutant general is retiring on March 1st. Major General Benjamin Corell has been in the National Guard for 37 years. “My wife has sacrificed much for my career. We’ve got seven grandkids,” Corell told reporters at the...