The goal of the military is to ensure that National Guard members are sent on overseas missions no more than once every six years, Bello said. For active duty the goal is every three years. While the ...

One was even gonna get married. Hopefully, our guardsmembers would be doing the same for them,” Pezzetti said. In the days following the storm, the Vermont National Guard had 700 members mobilized to ...

COLCHESTER The spokesman for the Vermont National Guard who became a familiar figure to people across the state during the deployment of 1,500 of the state s soldiers to Afghanistan has retired after ...