Nevada National Guard - Joint Force Headquarters

RENO – The Nevada National Guard and the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve organization recognized more than 40 private and public sector organizations during the annual ESGR Recognition Day and Award Ceremony at the Nevada Air Guard base in Reno on May 15. The event provided an opportunity for the National Guard to display its appreciation for the employers’ generous support of their reserve component military service.

NORTH LAS VEGAS -- Although the temperature approached summer-like triple digits here Tuesday, some Soldiers in the Nevada Army Guard said it felt more like December after the rbbon cutting ceremony that marked the opening of the North Las Vegas Readiness Center.Located at 6600 Range Road in North Las Vegas, the readiness center provides administrative, training, storage, educational and support space for the six units as well as military and civilian vehicle parking. About 80 acres of training lands surround the North Las Vegas Readiness Center, which is adjacent to the Floyd Edsall Readiness Center.

LAS VEGAS -- Nevada’s primary electricity provider, NV Energy, became the state’s first organization to receive the Employer Support of Guard and Reserve’s Extraordinary Employer Support Award on May 8 during the company’s annual shareholder meeting here at the Smith Center for the Performing Arts.

RENO — It’s not an overstatement to say Tech. Sgt. Shay Gilliam is a blessing to the Nevada Air National Guard.

Gilliam, a 152nd Airlift Wing chaplain’s assistant, received the Air National Guard 2012 Chaplain’s Assistant of the Year award this spring. He was selected for the award ahead of every other assistant Air Guard chaplain in the nation largely for his work in the Nevada Guard’s Strong Bonds program.

Home for less than a week following its 11-month deployment to Afghanistan, the eastern Nevada detachment of the 593rd Transportation Company began to call the new Elko County Readiness Center here “home” April 18 following the official ceremony marking the completion of the 5,376-square-foot center. The ceremony also marked the Nevada Guard’s assumption of the 460 acre campus here that was formerly the University of Nevada, Reno’s, Fire Science Academy.