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WASHINGTON, Nov. 28, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Senate Monday night approved legislation by Senator Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) to give the National Guard its first seat on the nation's highest military council, the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Their bill, which has 71 Senate cosponsors, was added by voice vote as an amendment to the annual Defense Authorization Bill. Leahy and Graham are the co-chairs of the Senate's 84-member National Guard...
Legislation would add Guard officer to Joint Chiefs WASHINGTON, Nov. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sixty-eight senators have now declared their support for legislation that would give the National Guard a permanent, unfiltered voice at the Pentagon. The latest effort in the Senate to further empower the nation's citizen-soldiers began in May when Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced the National Guard Empowerment and State-National Defense...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nearly 470,000 National Guardsmen today saluted their state commanders in chief for adding their voices to a growing chorus endorsing legislation that would give the Guard a voice in final resource decisions at the Pentagon. Guardsmen are acknowledging an Aug. 22 letter from the National Governors Association to Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., which called the bill "an important step forward...in ensuring...
Legislation would elevate NGB chief to Joint Chiefs of Staff WASHINGTON, Aug. 3, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Forty-six senators now sponsor legislation that would give the National Guard a voice in final resource decisions at the Pentagon. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced the National Guard Empowerment and State-National Defense Integration Act of 2011 (S. 1025) in late May. Forty-four Senators have since signed on as co-sponsors. The bill...
WASHINGTON, July 19, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Frustrated by continued Pentagon opposition to a National Guard seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Guard officers have taken their case up the chain of command to someone more supportive of the idea ? the commander in chief. In a July 1 letter to the White House, retired Maj. Gen. Gus L. Hargett Jr., the president of the National Guard Association of the United States, reminded President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden of...
Legislation would elevate NGB chief to Joint Chiefs of Staff WASHINGTON, June 30, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Thirty senators (list below) now sponsor legislation that would give the National Guard a voice in final resource decisions at the Pentagon. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., introduced the National Guard Empowerment and State-National Defense Integration Act of 2011, S. 1025, in late May. Twenty-eight senators have since signed on as co-sponsors....
WASHINGTON, June 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NGAUS today released the following statement by retired Maj. Gen. Gus L. Hargett Jr., the association president: "National Guardsmen across the country are pleased that the Senate moved swiftly in confirming Leon Panetta to be the next secretary of defense. "The Department of Defense faces a series of unprecedented challenges in the years ahead, including the daunting task of retooling the force to be able to keep the nation safe and...
WASHINGTON, May 26, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Nearly 500,000 National Guardsmen today hailed House approval of a Guard voice and vote in final resource decisions at the Pentagon. The House version of the fiscal 2012 National Defense Authorization Act, H.R. 1540, passed this afternoon, includes an amendment that would designate the chief of the National Guard Bureau as a full member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The amendment was co-sponsored by Reps. Candice S. Miller, R-Mich., and...
HARRISBURG, Pa., Feb. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Governor Tom Corbett today announced that he intends to nominate Major General Wesley Craig, 64, of Oreland, Montgomery County, as Adjutant General of Pennsylvania. As such, Craig will lead the Department of Military and Veterans Affairs. "Major General Craig has devoted his career to serving our nation," Corbett said. "His record of exemplary leadership, along with more than 30 years of military experience, makes him an ideal...
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Guard Association of the United States, the organization that represents the Guard officer corps, today released the following statement by retired Maj. Gen. Gus L. Hargett Jr., the NGAUS president: "Last week, in a speech to the National Defense University, Admiral Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. military was 'out of touch' with the American public. "While it may not have been his...
