By Stuart Tomlinson / The Oregonian Seventy-two soldiers with the 1st Battalion, 168 Aviation detachments of the Oregon National Guard will deploy to Afghanistan next spring, the Oregon Military Department said today. Capt. Stephen Bomar, an Oregon National Guard spokesman, said soldiers in B, D and E companies within the battalion will report to Ft. […]

Attention Oregon National Guard Spouses & Friends: Lane Community College offers new Deployment classes!   Holding Down the Homefront: A Guide for Spouses   Based on the Army’s Battlemind training for spouses and her own work with military families as a Certified Professional Life Coach, Katie Dyer – National Guard wife and Founder of Heroes […]

Oregon National Guard Oregon officially welcomed home the embedded trainers at a ceremony today in Salem. This is the weekend that the embedded trainers who have spent the last year in Afghanistan have/will reach(ed) Oregon. Welcome home, guys. Also, on Friday, 30 airmen from the Portland Airbase were sent off to Texas Friday for training […]