Flooding across Kentucky began Friday and has claimed at least 14 lives, according to state officials. More than 250 Kentucky Guard troops are working in the aftermath of the flooding and the winter weather.

Roughly 15% of National Guard members in Massachusetts serve as both military personnel in the Air National Guard and as civilian employees under the DOD at Barnes Air National Guard Base.

The Oregon Army National Guard has unveiled 6-mile off-road tank driver training course at Raymond F. Rees Training Center. The new course will allow local National Guard units to conduct essential driver training without traveling hundreds of miles to out-of-state facilities. 

Minnesota Air National Guard students from the cold weather operations course at Camp Ripley Training Center participated in a cold-water immersion.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shook hands Monday with troops at Fort Bliss for a deployment on the U.S. border with Mexico as Marines unloaded at Naval Base Guantanamo Bay in Cuba to begin work on migrant detention facilities.

More than 140 soldiers with the Pennsylvania National Guard will leave for a yearlong deployment to Kuwait as part of Task Force Spartan.

Several units representing branches of the U.S. military will be in Northern Michigan through Thursday for ongoing cold-weather training, meaning there will be an unusual amount of military planes, helicopters and trucks in parts of Northern Michigan this week.

Spc. Ruben Noel Rodriguez was training to become a truck driver for the Army and died Jan. 16 receiving medical treatment at a local hospital, according to Fort Sill. Officials did not say why he was receiving treatment or whether it was related to his training. His death is under investigation.

Six Air National Guard jets stuck at a Navy base in Sicily for months have returned to the U.S., a Guard official said.

“Always Ready, Always There.” Pfc. Sean Gereaghty, a soldier of the Pennsylvania National Guard, exemplified the branch’s motto on Monday when he quickly responded to a distressed woman experiencing severe chest pains.