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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.

Carson City –When Col. Cori Powers first heard she was selected as the Nevada Army National Guard’s new Army chief of staff, she knew she was up to the task, but also knew challenges lay ahead.

RENO—The Nevada Guard’s 593rd Transportation Company returned home after a 10 month deployment to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.  The first 20 soldiers to reunite with their families arrived in Elko last night at about 10:00 p.m. The balance arrived today, first stopping in Las Vegas at about noon, where about 50 ...

CARSON CITY – Since 1986, the Department of Defense has annually designated April as the month of the military child to recognize and celebrate the contributions of military children. To recognize the importance of the month, the Nevada National Guard Child and Youth Programs annually hosts special events during April.

CARSON CITY – Three Silver State Army Guard Soldiers received their commissions into the officer corps here at the Nevada Capitol on April 5. Second lieutenants Juan Contreras, Matthew Donaldson and David Henry were sworn in by Lt. Col. Clayton Chappell, the commander of the 1/421st Regional Training Institute.

The Nevada National Guard’s mass casualty response unit teamed with the American Red Cross and the Reno, Washoe and Sparks fire departments for catastrophe-response training in the rubble pile at the Regional Public Safety Training Center in Reno on March 22.