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June 24, 2019

Thomas R. Cox

Thomas R. Cox, 72, of Topeka, passed away June 15, 2019, in Lenexa, Kansas. Cox enlisted in the Air Force? October of 1963 and was first deployed as a photo systems technician with the 20th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, supporting missions flo...

June 24, 2019

Robert Leland Grosfield

Robert Leland Grosfield, 74, of Eskridge,? passed away Sunday, June 9, 2019. He was born Sept. 24, 1944, to? Oscar and Eleanor Grosfield. He lived and farmed in Brown County, Kansas, until the early 1980s. Grosfield had a 32 year military career bef...

June 21, 2019

19-045 Update to Disaster Response: Stafford County added to governor's disaster proclamation

Stafford County was added to the state disaster proclamation signed by Governor Laura Kelly May 9 which brings the total to 67. "The severe weather continues to exact a painful toll in communities across the state," Kelly said. "We're working to e...

June 20, 2019

New APFT prompting Soldiers to up their game

Staff Sgt. Matthew Weller (left), Cpl. Jacob Brown (center), and Sgt. Patrick Montgomery (right), 170th Support Maintenance Company, Wichita, workout with exercise machines and free weights to prepare for the new Army Combat Fitness Test during their...

June 20, 2019

Annual conference gives service organization platform for ‘collective voice’

Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli, Kansas adjutant general, provides remarks at the 2019 Joint Conference. The annual Joint Conference, hosted in Manhattan April 26-27 by the 235th Regiment, was the 65th annual meeting of the National Guard Association of Kans...

June 20, 2019

Guard opens the doors of opportunity

Wichita East High School Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps students speak to local college representatives at the Kansas National Guard Heartland Preparedness Center, April 11, 2019. The students were given the opportunity to learn about the Kans...

June 20, 2019

Memorial Day concert honors the fallen

Members of the 35th Infantry Division Band, the Kansas Army National Guard, stand as they play ?The Army Song? during their Memorial Day concert in Leavenworth, Kansas, May 25. (Photo by Capt. Lauren Orr, 105th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)......

June 19, 2019

Reinvigorated Guardsmen reenlist

Maj. Drew Polen (left) gives the reenlistment oath to Spc. Russell O'Neill a top of pallets of water that are ready to be distributed to communities in Kansas devastated by flooding during the month of May. O'Neill was one of two National Guardsmen f...

June 19, 2019

19-044 Update to disaster response: Three counties added to disaster proclamation

Brown, Ness and Osborne Counties were added to the state disaster proclamation signed by Governor Laura Kelly May 9 which brings the total to 66. Other counties currently named in the declaration are:? Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Barber, Barton, Bo...

June 18, 2019

Richard C. "Dick" Polgreen

Retired Sgt. 1st Class Richard C. "Dick" Polgreen, 79, of Junction City, Kansas, passed away Saturday, June 15, 2019, at Geary Community Hospital. Richard was born Jan. 26, 1940, in Albany, New York. He was the oldest child of Waldron and Frances ...