The South Carolina State Guard recently held a Field Training Exercise (FTX) that employed crucial skills and training of their Search & Rescue Teams. The exercise started with the State Guard simulating an event in which a casualty was discovered in ...
Last month The Georgia State Defense Force conducted their 2022 Annual Training. The training involved a library of courses and training including Search & Rescue, Evacuating casualties from Black Hawk helicopters, Medical training, as well as Emergen ...
Soldiers from the Connecticut Army National Guard recently were invited to judge the Connecticut Foot Guard’s Charleston Medal Competition. This competition features multiple squads from the Second Company of the Governor’s Foot Guard who compete with one ...
Each and every applicant joining the State Defense Forces, unless they served in the United States Military, must attend and graduate Initial Entry Training (Basic Training). The purpose of this training is to introduce civilian applicants to the military ...
The Tennessee State Guard (State Defense Force) 2022 Initial Entry Training class recently held its final training exercises and graduated from Basic Training. The Tennessee State Guard requires every new recruit to go through an Initial Entry Training pr ...
Many State Defense Forces have Cyber Defense Units that assist and augment their National Guard, one of those State Defense Forces is the South Carolina State Guard. Recently the unit spent their weekend drill training on identifying and removing malware ...
1st Lt. Christopher Beck of the Texas State Guard was recently awarded the Texas Purple Heart. He was awarded this prestigious award for his actions helping save his fellow soldiers while under attack in Iraqi. While returning to base his convoy was am ...
A few weeks ago the Maryland Defense Force and Virginia Defense Force participated in a joint Cyber Security Exercise. The exercise involved the 256th Cyber Defense Unit (CDU) of the Maryland Defense Force and the 31st Cyber Battalion of the Virginia Defe ...
Visitors trying to access the website this morning were unable to connect. This was due to failure in our domain service provider. The Service provider hosts and manages the web address - statedefenseforce.com. We have investigated the issue and corrected ...
While the 88th Area Command of the New York Guard (State Defense Force) spent their October weekend training drill focusing on their backup MERN (Military Emergency Radio Network) Communications system, the 56th Area Command focused on Land Navigation. Ba ...