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The state mission assigned to the National Guard is: The Virginia National Guard provides the premier ready, relevant, and responsive Army and Air National Guard and Virginia Defense Force (personnel and units) to support and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Constitution of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The forces must ...
It consists of the Virginia Army National Guard and Virginia Air National Guard. (The Virginia State Defense Force is the third military unit of the Virginia Department of Military Affairs, part of the state government of Virginia). The National Guard may be called into federal service in response to a call by the President of the United States ...
Assist in the mobilization of the Virginia National Guard. Support the Virginia National Guard in providing family assistance to military dependents within the Commonwealth in the event of the mobilization of the National Guard. Provide a military force to respond to the call of the Governor in those circumstances described in § 44–75.1.
In 1903, with passage of the Militia Act of 1903, the predecessor to the modern-day National Guard was formed. It required the states to divide their militias into two sections. The law recommended the title "National Guard" for the first section, for federal administration, and "Reserve Militia" for the individual states. [10]
The newly formed task force assumed the name of the beaches the regiment stormed more than 60 years prior – Normandy. During the deployment two 116th Infantry soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb, the first Virginia National Guard soldiers to die in combat since World War II. The battalion returned to the United States in July 2005. [6]
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The 429th Brigade Support Battalion (429th BSB) is a combat service support battalion of the United States Army and the Virginia National Guard.It is part of the 116th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Virginia Army National Guard.
National Guard Bureau: Director, Programs and Resources (J-8), National Guard Bureau (NGB) Not applicable: Major General David L. Hall [26] U.S. Army: National Guard Bureau: Director, Office of the Joint Surgeon General, National Guard Bureau (NGB) Not applicable: Major General Lisa J. Hou [27] U.S. Army: National Guard Bureau