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 ...

This year's inauguration will be different. National Guard leaders have authorized the use of a special shoulder patch with the Guard motto “Always Ready, Always There," to ensure that people ...

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 ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WMBD) — The Illinois National Guard will send 110 soldiers and 30 airmen to help with security at the presidential inauguration next week in Washington, D.C. Airmen with the ...

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 ...

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.