Team Blaze of the California State Guard (State Defense Force) is holding a recruiting event tomorrow, Saturday, May 21st. Team Blaze is one part of the Emergency Response Command of the California State Guard. This team is part of the National Guard & ...
Virginia Defense Force Holds Statewide Hurricane Response Exercise
The Virginia Defense Force (VDF) recently held a statewide Hurricane response exercise involving the entire Defense Force. This simulated exercise was designed to test the VDF's incident management assistance, access control and interoperable communicatio ...
Missouri State Defense Force De-Activated
The Missouri National Guard have informed StateDefenseForce.com that the Missouri State Defense Force is no longer an active organization. We were informed that an assessment was done to identify if the Missouri State Defense Force provided valuable or ne ...
Virginia National Guard Celebrates 415th Birthday!
The Virginia National Guard celebrated its 415th Birthday on May 13. The Guard can trace its lineage all the way back to the founding of the Jamestown colony in 1607, Americas first permanent English colony. In attendance of the ceremony was Deputy Sec ...
California National Guard, State Guard & CALFIRE Participate in Annual Wildland Fire Fighting Training
Troops from the The California National Guard, State Guard (State Defense Force) worked alongside CALFIRE recently during their annual wildland fire fighting training. The training focused on improving interoperability between the different agencies & ...
TX 2nd Brigade Delivers Hundreds of Toys to Childrens Hospitals
The Texas State Guard (State Defense Force) holds a year long program known as Young Heroes of the Guard Toy Drive, in which they collect and deliver thousands of toys to children in need throughout Texas. Recently the 2nd Brigade of the Texas State Guard ...
Georgia SDF Commanding General Visits South Carolina State Guard
The Commanding General of the Georgia State Defense Force, Brig. Gen. Mark D. Gelhardt, Sr., recently attended a South Carolina State Guard training drill. While at the drill he addressed the troops and even sat in on a senior staff briefing. In the la ...
New Addition for ‘Join The State Defense Force’ Section
We have recently developed and published a new addition to the 'Join The State Defense Force' Section. We added a US Map, with clickable States, to represent all the State Defense Forces in the United States. When someone decides to join their State Defen ...
Puerto Rico State Guard Engineers Upgrade National Guard Facilities
The Puerto Rico State Guard (State Defense Force) Engineer Battalion recently upgraded the National Guard Young Challenge Facilities. The engineers painted multiple buildings and then upgraded the electrical system in various parts of the buildings. Th ...
Alaska SDF Continues Working with Army Special Forces
The Alaska State Defense Force (AKSDF) have been working hand in hand with the Army's Special Forces unit, 5/19 SFG(A) Green Berets, the last few months on a multitude of training missions. From extreme weather training, conducting joint aerial survey mis ...