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Texas Army National Guard units are trained and equipped as part of the United States Army. The same ranks and insignia are used and National Guardsmen are eligible to receive all United States military awards. The Texas Guard also bestows a number of state awards for local services rendered in or to the state of Texas. The Texas Army National ...
It was reconstituted 17 June 1924 in the DC National Guard, and concurrently consolidated with Battery D, 60th Artillery, 5th Company, Coastal Defenses of the Potomac, and Batteries B and C, 110th Field Artillery to form the 260th Coast Artillery. It was organized from 17 June 1924 to 1 April 1939, during which time its headquarters was ...
Brigadier General Benjamin Oliver Davis, Sr. joined the DC National Guard in 1899, around the time of the Spanish-American War, for a short period of time after his regiment was disbanded. In the picture above, Davis is somewhere in France, in August, 1944, observing a Signal Corps crew positioning poles.
The Texas Air National Guard is the current air warfare branch of the Texas Military Forces for the State of Texas. It is composed of the 149th Fighter Wing, the 136th Airlift Wing, the 147th Attack Wing, the 254th Combat Communications Group, the 272nd Engineering Installation Squadron, and the 204th Security Forces Squadron.
The Texas Air National Guard began as the 111th Aero Squadron on 14 August 1917 at Kelly Field in San Antonio, TX. [1] The unit, composed of teamsters and laborers, was on special duty at Kelly Field and was known as the "Post Headquarters Squadron."
The Texas Challenge Academy (styled ChalleNGe) is the Texas affiliate of the Youth Challenge Program operated by the Texas National Guard. [28] It operates a free, 5 + 1 ⁄ 2-month residential and 12-month post-residential education program for at-risk 16- to 18-year-old students. The program is designed to help students who are "disengaged ...
The 254th Combat Communications Group (254 CCG) is a non-flying unit of the Texas Air National Guard located at Hensley Field, Dallas, Texas. If activated to federal service, the group is gained by Air Combat Command.
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