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As of 2013, the Illinois National Guard has approximately 13,200 members. [1] The National Guard is the only United States military force empowered to function in a state status. The Constitution of the United States specifically charges the National Guard with dual federal and state missions.
The Illinois Army National Guard was originally formed in 1712 as a colonial French militia.The militia worked under British sovereignty in the mid-eighteenth century, until the American Revolutionary War, when in 1779 Colonel George Rogers Clark, with 200 frontiersmen, of the Illinois Regiment, Virginia State Forces, from Kaskaskia, captured Fort Sackville from British Colonel Henry Hamilton ...
The Illinois National Guard provided a total of 1,371 soldiers and airmen from both Army and Air National Guard units. The Illinois Air National Guard's 126th Air Refueling Wing and 108th Air Refueling Squadron were also mobilized and actively participated in the "Air Bridge" between the United States and the Persian Gulf.
Following September 11, 2001, the 333d was activated by Governor George Ryan under Title 32 status for increased security at Illinois commercial airports. The mission, requested by President George W. Bush at Chicago O'Hare Airport on September 27, [3] was to provide a trained and armed military security presence to reinforce the civilian security function.
Ohio Army National Guard: Springfield, Ohio: 371st Sustainment Brigade 29th Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade: North Carolina Army National Guard: Greensboro, North Carolina: 113th Sustainment Brigade 34th Infantry Division Sustainment Brigade: Illinois Army National Guard: Chicago, Illinois: 108th Sustainment Brigade 35th Infantry Division ...
Peoria, Illinois: 33rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team Illinois Army National Guard: Illinois ANG: 169th Air Support Operations Squadron: Peoria, Illinois: 34th Infantry Division Iowa Army National Guard: Illinois ANG: 227th Air Support Operations Squadron: Atlantic City, New Jersey: 28th Infantry Division Pennsylvania Army National Guard: New ...
This is a list of Wings in the United States Air Force Air National Guard. Wing Shield Location ... Peoria ANGB, Peoria, Illinois: AMC: C-130 Hercules: 183rd Wing: ...
The Army National Guard (ARNG) is an organized militia force and a federal military reserve force of the United States Army.It is simultaneously part of two different organizations: the Militia of the United States (consisting of the ARNG of each state, most territories, and the District of Columbia), as well as the federal ARNG, as part of the National Guard as a whole (which includes the Air ...