Local employers learning about the National Guard

The Rhode Island Military Family Relief Fund was established to provide emergency financial assistance to Rhode Island Reserve Component members and/or their families impacted by mobilization and deployment.

The Providence VA Medical Center, located at 830 Chalkstone Avenue, has established an Operation Enduring Freedom/Operation Iraqi Freedom (OEF/OIF) New Patient Care Clinic, providing new OEF/OIF Veterans a one-stop-shopping model of integrative primary and behavioral healthcare as well as an opportunity to seek after-hours care.

The Adjutant General announces new energy saving guidelines.

Major General (MG) Robert T. Bray, Adjutant General of Rhode Island and Commanding General of the Rhode Island National Guard announced today that the 143d Airlift Wing, out of Quonset Point, deployed two C-130J aircraft late yesterday, with a total of 10 personnel in support of the U.S. military’s Haitian relief effort, Operation Unified Response.

In a military ceremony at the Middletown Armory on Sunday, December 6th, members of the Company A, 2nd Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), received recognition for their actions while in Afghanistan from January - July 2009.