The largest designated sponsor of the U.S. State Department-regulated au pair program announced its 2024 Host Family of the Year. Cultural Care Au Pair (CCAP) named the Bright family, an Army National Guard family from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, as its recipient. Capt. Joel Rice Bright, a JAG officer with Vermont National Guard, and his wife Caroline Bright were chosen from hundreds of nominations by au pairs. They shared the ...
Good things come to those who wait, the saying goes. But military officials and Upwards, the largest childcare network in the nation, just couldn’t keep the good news to themselves anymore in May: a resoundingly successful pilot program has expanded early from Army Reserve families to include Army National Guard soldiers in 20 states. “I think we’ve seen the success of what’s happening, and ...
An airman’s career has come full circle as he leads the wing that is part of his family’s legacy of service. Air Force Chief Master Sgt. Richard Schumacher is the senior enlisted advisor for the 133rd Airlift Wing. In the fall of 2023, he remarked on his familial connection when he took on his new role. “The 133rd Airlift Wing has been part of ...
Air Force Capt. James “Jim” Horn will tell you this: he doesn’t do anything simply — or once. Horn, who serves in the 183rd Wing of Illinois National Guard, was honored in April as the 2024 USO National Guardsman of the Year. He enlisted in the Marine Corps as a junior in high school, graduated boot camp, and then did recruiting duty for several ...
An Army National Guard veteran is on a mission to make others aware of mental health resources – one marathon at a time. During Mental Health Awareness Month last May, former infantryman Jeffrey Benaim ran five marathons in five consecutive days, in each of the five New York City boroughs. He raised $2,000 for Reps for Responders, which has a mission of supporting the ...
Approximately two dozen guardsmen from the Tennessee National Guard’s 1130th Finance Management Support Detachment embarked on a year-long mission to the Middle East to support finance-related tasks for other forward deployed units. “We have an incredibly professional and well-trained team,” said Capt. Jeffry Rennert, commander of the 1130th Finance Detachment, in a press release. “We have been working hard to prepare for this mission ...
A survey of military members and veterans revealed that more than half joined the armed services for education benefits, but one expert says tuition assistance is mostly underused and ignored. The findings, according to Institute for Veterans and Military Families, show 53% of respondents state a top motivation for military service is education benefits. Dr. Kenneth Hardy, chief of the Army National Guard’s Education ...
Guardsmen hold a panel discussion in recognition of Pride Month, a June observance that honors the riots of June 1969 in New York City.
Michigan Air National Guardsman Tech. Sgt. Jessica R. Brazionis was named the ANG’s Outstanding NCO of the Year for 2022.
For members of the National Guard, the summer heat represents an altogether different set of plans: annual training.
