Category Archives: Hometown Military News

Lt. Col. Neil Putnam, of Chatham addresses members of the Illinois National Guard’s 2nd Battalion, 130th Infantry Regiment during a change-of-command ceremony, July 21 at Camp Atterbury, Indiana...

The American Veteran’s Traveling Tribute will be at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery in Bloomington Aug. 24-28. (Photo courtesy Facebook/AVTT Vietnam Wall)By Eric StockBLOOMINGTON – A veterans ...

Brig. Gen. Jeff Drushal, chief of transportation and commandant of the U.S. Army Transportation School, presents 1st Lt. Nathaniel Jungheim of Chicago, Illinois, with an award as the 2015 Transportati...

Deploying Airmen of the 183rd Air Operations Group based in Springfield, Illinois, board a C-130 aircraft on the first leg of their journey to duty in the Middle East. Approximately 80 members of the ...

The Illinois State Military Museum will host a World War II encampment on Saturday. (Photo courtesy Illinois National Guard)Hometown Military News: June 24, 2016:Military museum hosts World War II enc...

Brig. Gen. Ronald Paul, Assistant Adjutant General – Air of the Illinois National Guard presents a 1,000 dollar scholarship check to Cadet Noah Rogers of Armington, Illinois during the Lincoln&#...

Maj. Gen. Richard Hayes, Jr. (right), The Adjutant General, Illinois National Guard accepts the Illinois Army National Guard’s award for being the “most improved” National Guard orga...

Staff Sgt. Lindsey Gibbs of Pleasant Plains, Illinois, a readiness noncommissioned officer with the 65th Troop Command Brigade, plays a dead victim in a hallway as active shooter role players walk thr...

UH-72 Lakota pilot, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Zachary Manhart, gives the drug interdiction agents a safety brief prior to the agents departing on an orientation flight at Central Illinois Regional Airpo...

Spc. Tycjan Sieradzki of Algonquin, Illinois, a Soldier with the 244th Digital Liaison Detachment based in Chicago, works his way through the confidence course at Marseilles Training Center in Marseil...