2015 YEAR IN REVIEW NATIONAL GUARD

VISIT US 58,474 lbs cocaine, meth, marijuana and heroin seized 108

Number of Soldiers 1,000 Days on Fire Line 56 Fires Worked 14 LEADERSHIP LOOKBACK LEADERSHIP LOOKBACK LEADERSHIP LOOKBACK

The California National Guard continued its tradition of exceptional,

dedicated service this year, both in California and overseas. Our “ Soldiers and Airmen protected this state by supporting CAL FIRE and local agencies during a very active season, while also “ performing our federal mission abroad. From our partnerships with Ukraine and Nigeria to combat deployments around the globe, we are trained and ready to support any mission that comes our way.

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MIDDLETOWN: Military Police assist LIFESAVING: An Airman civilian authorities comforts a role-playing victim in escorting wildfire during a simulated chemical victims back to RETAIN: Our leaders strive to take COMBAT: A Soldier secures attack training exercise. their homes. care of their troops to retain a landing zone during an them and mentor the leaders of air assault operation while tomorrow. at annual training at Camp Roberts.

“Our Soldiers and Airmen work HUMBOLDT FIRE: directly with Gov. Brown’s office and Our aviation his Office of Emergency Services crews work to ensure the highest degree of with CAL FIRE interagency cooperation during managers to fight emergency-response operations.” fires across the - Maj. Gen. Baldwin state.

EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS “Since 1636, the Soldiers and Airmen of the National Guard have exemplified our country’s highest ideals through their service to our local communities, state and nation.” - Command Sgt. Maj. Clark

YOUTH PROGRAMS: Producing a COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: program graduate with the values, Troops provide logistics, skills, education and self-discipline security and operations necessary to succeed as an adult. support during the Special FAMILY PROGRAMS: Taking care of Olympics World Games in our own, especially in times of need. . LEADERSHIP LOOKBACK LEADERSHIP LOOKBACK LEADERSHIP LOOKBACK

Our NCOs and enlisted members are some of the world’s finest,

bringing outstanding skills, leadership and commitment to their “ overseas tours and their support to civil authorities at home. Cal Guard leadership has worked hard to build family and veteran “ care programs that provide the support our dedicated members deserve so they will be ready when duty calls.

Command Sergeant Major William Clark Jr. Senior Enlisted Advisor to The Adjutant General “The Cal Guard’s State Partnership Program, established more than STATE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM 20 years ago, provides valuable mentoring and expertise to our counterparts in Ukraine and Nigeria.” - Command Sgt. Maj. Clark

UKRAINE: Teaching Combat Lifesaver and NIGERIA: Teaching Improvised Casualty Evacuation Explosive Device awareness. skills.

READY CIVIL SUPPORT “The Guard’s unique dual mission provides opportunities to serve citizens in our own communities at home while also benefitting people from different cultures overseas.” - Command Sgt. Maj. Clark

SHASTA-TRINITY: One of many CAL FIRE trained hand crews, made up of Soldiers, QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE pause during hot-spot clean up to show their support for their state battling .

“Our Logistics Division accounted for and maintained $4.17 billion of equipment. Through regionalized maintenance and property management, processed over 18,796 work orders and reduced inventory by $35 million.” CAMP ROBERTS: Renovation - Maj. Gen. Baldwin LOS ALAMITOS: Our 40th Infantry Division of the new High Water Bridge at Joint Forces Training Base gets a helps save time, resources brand new headquarters building. and increases safety. CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD

ARMYMission Statement: The California organizes, trains, equips and resources community based land forces. On order, mobilizes to support state and/or federal authority. Soldiers assigned: DEPLOYED SINCE 9/1125,746 14,956 DEPLOYED FULL-TIME PERSONNEL: 2,185 IN 20151,207 NATIONWIDE THE ARMY NATIONAL GUARD Accounts for less than 11% of the overall Army budget. $384,622 cost of a Makes up 32% service member of all Army personnel. in 2015 Maintains nearly 40% $123,351 of the operating force.

CALGUARD 2015 TIMELINE

Mountain View’s 129th Rescue deploys its first of three squadrons to the Horn of Africa Stockton’s Company B, 1-126th Aviation For the third year in a row Team to provide combat rescue support. Two more Regiment upgrades its aging Chinook California wins the U.S. Army Small Arms squadrons join them in July. fleet to the advanced CH-47F model. Championship at Fort Benning, Georgia. Fresno’s 144th Fighter Wing wins Pararescuemen from the Employer of the Year award from the save California Disability Services Association. Soldiers from Long Beach’s 250th Military two Saudi pilots who Soldier earns Missile Defender of the Year Award Intelligence Battalion return from a crashed in the Gulf of Aden from the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance. deployment to Guantanamo Bay. off the Horn of Africa. 1 JANUARY 2015 FEBRUARY MARCH

Soldiers from Sacramento’s Sacramento’s 142nd Chaplain 270th Military Police Company Detachment returns from Kuwait. and ’s 223rd Chinook crew rescues lost hiker Military Intelligence Battalion near Mammoth Mountain. deploy to Guantanamo Bay. The Cal Guard’s Work For Warriors program The 129th Rescue Wing opens new celebrates its third year of operation and the Guardian Angel Pararescue Training Annual awards banquet honors top Airmen, milestone of placing over 4,000 Soldiers and Facility at Moffett Field. Soldiers and State Military Reservists. Airmen into jobs. CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD

AIRMission Statement: The California is a ready, reliable, relevant and learning force providing skilled SMR Airmen and modern equipment seamlessly operating across air, space and cyberspace domains in support of combatant commands and interagency partners. Airmen assigned: DEPLOYED 25,746 SINCE 9/1116,635 4,496 DEPLOYED IN 2015 1,207 FULL-TIME PERSONNEL: 1,645 1,054

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Cal Guard trains with civilian emergency first responders during Riverside’s 163rd Reconnaissance Wing the annual Ardent Sentry earthquake retires its MQ-1 Predator remotely piloted exercise in Los Alamitos. Mortarmen from Modesto’s 1-184th Infantry Battalion, Azusa’s 1-18th Cavalry aircraft and upgrades to MQ-9 Reapers. Regiment, and tankers from San Bernardino’s 1-185th Armor Battalion, join 4,000 fellow Guardsmen for a consolidated annual training event at Camp Roberts from 6-20 June. After more than a 12-year absence, armor in the form of 10 Main 129th Rescue Wing Airmen win national Battle Tanks, 26 Bradley Fighting Vehicles and 16 Armored Personnel Carriers top honors for First Sergeant of the Year helped showcase their might and the resources of Camp Roberts. and Rookie Recruiter of the Year APRIL MAY JUNE

Sacramento’s 49th Personnel 150 Army and Air National Guardsmen Riverside’s 163rd belonging to the Homeland Response Support Company deploys Army and Air aviation crews Reconnaissance Wing Force participates in Vigilant Guard/ to Kuwait. train with CAL FIRE in Ione in becomes an Attack Wing. Makani Pahili--a large scale hurricane preparation for the upcoming disaster scenario in the Hawaiian The 129th Rescue Wing opens new wildfire season. Full-time Soldiers from the Los Alamitos-based Fresno’s 40th Combat Aviation Brigade Guardian Angel Pararescue Training 9th Civil Support Team train in a realistic Islands. heads to Fort Hood, Texas, to conduct a Facility at Moffett Field. disaster scenario at Universal Studios. Warfighter exercise in preparation for its upcoming deployment. CALIFORNIA STATE MILITARY RESERVE

SMRMission Statement: To support, supplement and train Soldiers and Airmen of the California National Guard on the home front while they are under federal orders as well as during peacetime. To support and supplement civil authorities during times of state emergencies and natural disasters. State Military 16,635 Reservists (Army and Air) 1,724 assigned: 1,054 FULL-TIME PERSONNEL: 184 Mobile Link To the World used during CAL OES Search and Rescue, CAL FIRE WLFF Training, Doctors wildfires Engineers

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VOLUNTEER HOURS PERFORMED Incident Lawyers Veterans 135,000 Commander’s Command VALUE OF VOLUNTEER HOURS Control & Subject-matter experts $3,627,450 Communications make up this unique force Unit C4U CALGUARD 2015 TIMELINE I

Logistics and support units, such as Long Beach’s 224th Sustainment Brigade, Oroville’s 2668th Transportation Company and our State Military From late July to mid-October more than 1,000 Soldiers are called up to Reserve, provide security, logistics and operational Army and Air aviation units support Airmen from multiple units be trained as hand crews in support support at the 2015 Special Olympics World Games CAL FIRE on 13 different wildfires from participate in Patriot 15, a disaster of CAL FIRE in its battle against in Los Angeles. July to September, dropping more than scenario exercise in Volk Field, multiple wildfires. Wisconsin; and Sentry Eagle, An Airman saves the life 2,856,270 gallons of water. an air-to-air combat exercise in of a driver who crashed 129th Rescue Wing Airmen parachute onto a tanker Klamath Falls, Oregon. into an irrigation canal. during a rescue 900 miles off the coast of San Francisco. High Water Bridge completed at Camp Roberts. JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER

The 163rd Attack Wing uses a Remotely Soldiers from National City’s 670th Military Police Camp Roberts hosts marksmen from Pittsburg’s 870th Military Police Riverside’s 163rd Piloted Aircraft for a civilian Search and Company and Los Alamitos’ 40th Infantry Division several states for shooting competition. Company escorts Middletown wildfire Reconnaissance Wing Rescue operation for the first time. return home from a deployment to Guantanamo Bay. victims back into their neighborhoods The 132nd Multi-Role Bridge becomes an Attack Wing. devastated by the Valley Fire. Company, out of Redding and The 129th Rescue Wing and 163rd Attack Shasta, erect a bridge over a Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System-equipped Wing take part in Angel Thunder, the largest Soldiers join 1,800 personnel from 18 different nations river to help CAL FIRE battle aircraft from Channel Islands’ rescue exercise in the U.S. Air Force, at Davis in Ukraine, one of our State Partnership Program Lake County wildfires. drop 425,083 gallons of retardant on wildfires, Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. countries, for Rapid Trident 2015, a cooperative exercise such as the Rocky, Rough and River fires. focused on peacekeeping and stability operations. CA YOUTH & COMMUNITY PROGRAMS

YCPMission Statement: To establish and facilitate ongoing communication, involvement, support and recognition between the California Military Department, our military families, local communities and the youth entrusted to our care through education outreach services and partnerships that leverage resources, training, new capabilities, concepts, and technological advances.

Part of a Lathrop: Our third ChalleNGe CBS Emmy program, Discovery ChalleNGe award- 95%of graduates Academy, was approved and winning go to college opens in January 2017. 6-part series

Mobile Link To the World Oakland: The Oakland Military Institute is a Los Alamitos: Sunburst Youth ChalleNGe Academy has college preparatory academy that far exceeds the been recognized as one of the nation’s top ChalleNGe state average for the percentage of students who programs. The academy’s main goal is turning around continue on to advanced studies. the lives of 16- to 18-year-old high school dropouts. 3,200 students attended in 2015 400 Sacramento and Los Alamitos: A 5-day curriculum, students enroll 86%of graduates pursue STARBASE programs inspire 5th graders toward each year higher education studies and careers in Science, Technology, San Luis Obispo: Grizzly Youth ChalleNGe Academy has Engineering, and Math (STEM) with experiential “hands on, minds on” activities. been recognized as one of the nation’s top ChalleNGe Statewide: The California Cadet Corps (CCC) programs for bringing discipline and structure to the lives of partners with schools throughout the state to 16- to 18-year-old high school dropouts. Both Grizzly and develop leadership, improve academics, foster Sunburst enroll more than 400 cadets each year. school safety and develop citizenship. CALGUARD 2015 TIMELINE

North Highland’s 162nd Combat Communications Group expands to become the Soldiers from Sacramento’s 100th Troop 195th Wing, our fifth wing, taking on space, The Cal Guard supports 65 Veterans Day Command play the role of United Nations cyber, intelligence and combat communications events, adding to the already 318 events our HQ during Yudh Abhyas, a U.S. Army Pacific Each year our higher commands missions. Community Relations team manages each year. exercise at Joint Base Lewis-McChord. The send their top NCOs and Soldiers to bilateral exercise with the Indian Army compete at the state level Best Warrior simulated a U.N. peacekeeping mission. Competition at . Soldiers from Sacramento’s 270th Military A San Pedro infantry Soldier from the 1-160th Infantry Police Company return home from a Regiment rescues 42 people from a burning bus. deployment to Guantanamo Bay. SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

Oxnard’s 315th Engineer Company Soldiers, Airmen and their families 40th Infantry Division returns Soldiers, Airmen and SMR from returns home from a deployment to gather at armories across the state for home from Kosovo deployment. our Homeland Response Force the Middle East. holiday drill weekend parties where train at Camp Roberts to prepare service awards are presented and gifts for a FEMA evaluation on their 40th Combat Aviation Brigade units train 144th Fighter Wing pilots train with members are given to those less fortunate. alongside other states’ Guard units at Fort Hood, of the Canadian Armed Forces and the U.S. Air disaster response proficiency. Texas, prior to departing for Kuwait in one of the Force and Navy, during Vigilant Shield 16 in Cal Guard’s biggest deployments in years. Newfoundland, Canada, as part of a NORAD exercise to test aerospace defense. Our annual top performers were awarded in January 2015 for their Cal Guard’s Locations of our Air outstanding achievement and commitment to the California National Guard. Wings, Army Commands and Major Training First Sergeant: Master Sergeant Sally J. Ford 129th Mission Support Group - Mountain View B TPRINT Installations. A Senior Non-Commissioned Officer: Master Sergeant Darin Laity I 216th Space Control Squadron - Vandenburg Air Force Base R Non-Commissioned Officer: Staff Sergeant Amber J. Ertel 195th Wing 234th Intelligence Squadron - Airman: Senior Airman Harry Vong 115th Regional Support Group 144th Maintenance Operations Flight - Fresno California State Military A Reserve Non-Commissioned Officer: Sergeant Ricardo Ledesma 100th Troop Command R 1072nd Transportation Company - Fresno M Soldier: Specialist Joshua Fernandez 49th Military Police Brigade Y Company A, 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry Regiment - Visalia 144th Fighter Wing 40th Combat Aviation Brigade S Non-Commissioned Officer: Sergeant Adam Walsh Headquarters, California State Military Reserve - Sacramento 1106th Theater Aviation M Soldier: Specialist Clinton J. Vallee Sustainment Maintenance Group R Installation Support Command - Los Alamitos 129th Rescue Wing CALIFORNIA NATIONAL GUARD’S Camp Roberts Camp San Luis Obispo Funding Source 223rd Regional Training Institute 146th Airlift Wing 95.5% 224th Sustainment Brigade Federally95.5% Funded Joint Forces Training Base 40th Infantry Division Special Operations Detachment 4.5%4.5% 163rd Attack Wing State Funded 79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team DVIDS CANGVI www.calguard.ca.gov CaGuard @theCaGuard thecalguard CaGuard CaNationalGuard FOR FOR MORE MORE INFORMATION $INFORMATION VISIT US VISIT US The Cal Guard’s Defense Support of Civil Authorities 58,474 lbs cocaine, meth, “By the Numbers” marijuana and 2015 heroin seized Army & Air

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