NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Nearly 50 Guardsmen with Dyersburg’s 168th Military Police Battalion recently completed a year-long deployment to the U.S. Southern Border and all Soldiers had returned home to Tennessee by Monday, November 24.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – Six Soldiers with the Tennessee Army National Guard, who are currently supporting the Memphis Safe Task Force, provided immediate medical aid to two victims of a car crash on Interstate 40 near the Appling Farms Road exit in Memphis, Nov. 14.
McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base, Tenn. – The U.S. Air Force announced today that Knoxville’s 134th Air Refueling Wing has been selected to receive the KC-46A Pegasus, marking a major milestone in the future of aerial refueling and operational capability for the Tennessee Air National Guard.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. – During a Saturday morning patrol with local law enforcement as part of the Memphis Safe Task Force, Staff Sgt. Cody Luhrs, a Security Forces officer with the Air National Guard’s 164th Airlift Wing, saved the life of a local woman suffering from a drug overdose west of the Memphis International Airport on Winchester Road.
CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. – The Tennessee Military Department hosted a groundbreaking ceremony for a new National Guard Readiness Center at Fort Campbell, near the Tennessee National Guard Unit Training and Equipment Site, Building 6090, October 22.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – In support of the 2025 Medal of Honor Celebration Convention, Soldiers from the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment’s Fires Squadron will perform a three-volley salute next to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, in Chattanooga, during a memorial service on October 3, at approximately 10:20 a.m.
HENDERSONVILLE, Tenn. – The Hendersonville Police Department was recognized and awarded the 2025 Secretary of Defense Employer Support Freedom Award, the highest recognition an employer can receive from the Department of Defense for their support of employees who serve in the National Guard and Reserves, during a ceremony at Hendersonville City Hall, August 29.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Twenty-one Tennessee Army National Guardsmen were commissioned as U.S. Army 2nd Lieutenants during a special ceremony held at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House, August 17.
SMYRNA, Tenn. – Soldiers from across the United States became the U.S. Army’s newest military policemen as they graduated from the Tennessee National Guard’s Military Police Basic Course at Smyrna’s Volunteer Training Site, August 8. These 16 graduates are now military law enforcement officers and the newest members of the U.S. Army Military Police Corps.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – During a special ceremony at Nashville’s Joint Force Headquarters on August 2, Naudia Cartmell assumed command of the Tennessee Air National Guard’s newest unit, the Tennessee Recruiting and Retention Squadron.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – During a ceremony held at the Tennessee National Guard’s Joint Force Headquarters in Nashville on August 1, Col. Mark Tyndall, Chief of the Joint Staff for the Tennessee National Guard, was promoted to the rank of brigadier general in front of his family, friends, and fellow Soldiers.
VELIKO TARNOVO, Bulgaria. – Members of the Tennessee Army and Air National Guard competed in the Bulgarian Armed Forces’ first multinational Best Warrior Competition held at the Vasil Levski National Military University, June 23-26.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – More than 260 Guardsmen from the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment departed from Knoxville and Smyrna, May 30, on their first leg of a nearly year-long deployment to the Middle East.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – To align with the U.S. Army’s new transformation initiative, the Tennessee Army National Guard’s 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment was selected as one of three National Guard units to reorganize into a Mobile Brigade Combat Team. This initiative is part of the Army’s broader strategy to maintain its edge on the battlefield by transforming itself into a leaner, more lethal force.
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – The Soldiers of the Tennessee Army National Guard mourn the loss of one of its former leaders, retired Col. Dennis Adams, the 8th Colonel of the 278th Armored Cavalry Regiment and former Director of Administrative Services for the Tennessee Military Department.