BARBADOS-- New York Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer 4 Matthias Quackenbush, a standardization instructor pilot assigned to the 3rd Battalion,142nd Aviation Regiment Ne provides a safety brief to Soldiers Marines and service members and police officers from Barbados Netherlands Guyana Mexico Dominican Republic St. Lucia and the Grenadines Antigua and Barbuda and St. Kitts and Nevis prior to Fast Rope Insertion and Extraction System training during Exercise TRADEWINDS 24 in Barbados on May 8 2024. Tradewinds is a U.S. Southern Command-sponsored regionally oriented annual exercise and is part of the Joint Chiefs of Staffs Large Scale Global Exercise 24 a series of all-domain military exercises executed alongside Allies and partners around the globe. The New York Army National Guard deployed 45 Soldiers and four UH-60M Black Hawk helicopters to participate in the exercise.
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Times Union -- Tue, 29 Jul 2025 Duty Calls: Enemy force Two hundred and forty New York Army National soldiers from units across the state have been serving as part of an enemy force at the National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., for the... (more)
WSYR -- Sun, 27 Jul 2025 Cadets follow in parents footsteps at annual Civil Air Patrol encampment SYRACUSE, N.Y. (WSYR-TV) Gretel Kizer watched her 14-year-old son complete his week-long encampment with the Civil Air Patrol. I cried when I dropped him off, I said, youre too young to... (more)
WAMC -- Sat, 26 Jul 2025 Major General Raymond Shields, Adjutant General of New York, discusses potential new funding opportunity to relocate the 42nd Infantry Division (Audio) This week, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer announced his securing of $90 million for the New York National Guard to help relocate the 42nd Infantry Division. The Division is seeking... (more)