told the nearly 400 Illinois Army National Guard Soldiers taking part in the ceremony. “It is an honor to receive a combat patch and your work here has earned you that honor.” The Army combat ...

Soldiers with the 33rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, Illinois Army National Guard, recently spent two weeks in Torún, Poland, ...

Many of them wear deployment patches, indicating their service ... “This is what I joined the Guard for,” said Illinois Army National Guard Staff Sgt. Chad Brown, an aircraft mechanic and ...

The National Guard is a unique branch where members balance service with civilian life. Under the command of both the state ...

A little over five years ago, Maj. Gen. Richard Neely took the Illinois National Guard flag in a chain of command ceremony. On May 4, Neely, the adjutant general for Illinois and commander of the ...

Members of the National Guard activated to support Monday’s presidential inauguration have been issued a special identification patch for the event, with the goal of making it easier to identify ...

It took a few years, but Adriana Schroeder dug deep and finally came up with the birth date for the Illinois National Guard. It turned out to be nearly a century before Illinois entered the Union.