LANSING, Mich. (WNEM) - The Michigan National Guard (MING) has received $26 million in federal funding to modernize and address inequities in facilities provided to Michigan’s women service members.

Starting in 1976, women could attend flight training. Two years later, 2nd Lt. Marilyn Koon, a former North Dakota Guard member, became the Air National Guard's first female pilot with the Arizona ...

Members of the Michigan National Guard assemble Sunday, May 31, 2020, in Grand Rapids, Mich. Mayor Rosalynn Bliss issued a curfew for 7 p.m. Sunday after a night of protests.

As history would have it, “women weren’t allowed into the National Guard until President Eisenhower signed Public Law No. 845 in 1956, which authorized female reserve officers of the Army and ...

This comes on the 50th anniversary of the first women joining the guard, roughly 117 years after it was founded. Today, one in five Minnesota National Guard Members are women.

In 2016, then-Secretary of Defense Ash Carter opened all military specialties to women, and Jablonski stepped up as the second woman in New Mexico's National Guard history to take on a combat job.

The Washington Army National Guard is looking to help make policy changes so that women do not have to choose between having children and progressing in their military careers. When a soldier ...

Arcovitch estimates that women make up between 15% and 20% of the Vermont Air and National Guard, in line with data from the Department of Defense that shows women make up about 17% of all ...

The Air National Guard honors its women in aviation, highlighting their inspiring journeys. Among them are two women who opted to join right out of high school to become boom operators ...

Vermont Army National Guard Chief of Staff Colonel Tracey Poirier has been with the military for 22 years. “I joined the reserves at 17 years old,” Col. Poirier said. “I saw it as an ...

ARLINGTON, Va. (March 2, 2016) -- Norma Parsons. Diane Dowd. Leigh Ann Hester. They are just some of the women who have made an indelible mark on National Guard history and paved the way for ...