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The predecessor of the Florida Army National Guard was a Spanish Florida militia formed in 1565 in the newly established presidio town of St. Augustine.On September 20, 1565, Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, attacked and defended Florida from an attempted French settlement at Fort Caroline, in what is now Jacksonville. [2]
The Florida National Guard is the National Guard force of the state of Florida. It comprises the Florida Army National Guard and the Florida Air National Guard. The United States Constitution charges the National Guard with dual federal and state missions. Ordinarily under the control of the state government (in which the governor is the ...
First Squadron, 153rd Cavalry Regiment "Darkhorse" is an element of the Florida Army National Guard, headquartered in Panama City, Florida with units throughout the Panhandle. It was formerly 3rd Battalion, 124th Infantry and officially converted to cavalry on 1 September 2007 when the 53rd Infantry Brigade converted from a "separate brigade ...
Camp Blanding is the primary training site for most of the Florida National Guard's military units and the main combat arms brigade, the 53rd Infantry Brigade of the Florida Army National Guard. It is also home to the headquarters and support companies of the 3- 20th Special Forces Group, the 211th Infantry Regiment, and the 2-111th Airfield ...
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 ...
The 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne) (19th SFG) (A) is one of two National Guard groups of the United States Army Special Forces.19th Group—as it is sometimes called—is designed to deploy and execute nine doctrinal missions: unconventional warfare, foreign internal defense, direct action, counter-insurgency, special reconnaissance, counter-terrorism, information operations ...
320th Military Police Battalion - Ashley, PA. 324th Military Police Battalion (I/R) - Fresno, CA. 400th Military Police Battalion - Fort Meade, MD. 607th Military Police Battalion - Grand Prairie, TX. 744th Military Police Battalion - Bethlehem, PA. 200th Military Police Command. Reserve. 14th Military Police Brigade.
Since 2000, the airport has been a joint civil-military airfield, home to the Florida Army National Guard's Army Aviation Support Facility #2 and Company B, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment (B/1-171 AVN) and Detachment 1, Company H, 1st Battalion, 171st Aviation Regiment (Det 1 H/1-171 AVN), which relocated from their previous facility at ...