Colorado National Guard

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The Colorado National Guard (CONG) of the US state of Colorado has existed since 1860 and is part of the National Guard of the United States ( acronymized USNG ) established in 1903 and thus also part of the second level of the military reserve of the United States Armed Forces .

organization

The members of the National Guard are voluntary service payable militiamen that the Governor subject to Colorado. They may also be used at the federal level (with the consent of Congress ) in certain circumstances . The President of the United States is the commander-in-chief for federal missions .

The Colorado National Guard consists of the two branches of the Army and Air Force , namely the Army National Guard and the Air National Guard . Separate from this is the state guard , the Colorado State Defense Force (currently inactive), which is solely obliged to the state.

The Colorado Army National Guard had 3603 staff in 2017 and the Colorado Air National Guard 1580, for a total of 5183.

history

The Colorado National Guard traces its roots back to 1860 militia associations in the newly formed Colorado Territory . These were set up in many western regions when the regular army was tied up in the East by the Civil War . The volunteer forces from Colorado were considered particularly undisciplined and aggressive, they are responsible for one of the most brutal massacres of the Indian Wars: the Sand Creek massacre of 1864.

The National Guards of the Federal States since 1903 by federal law and institutionally closely linked to the regular army and air force and performed their service in both the First and Second World War and the Korean War . The National Guard was also often active inside. The Ludlow massacre resulted in a bloody attack by the Colorado National Guard on striking miners in Ludlow, Colorado on April 20, 1914, killing 25.

units

Colorado Army National Guard units

  • 169th Field Artillery Brigade, Buckley AFB, Aurora, Colorado
    • 3rd Battalion, 157th Field Artillery Regiment, Colorado Springs
    • 147th Brigade Support Battalion, Fort Collins
    • 540th Signal Company, Aurora
    • 86th Military Intelligence Company, Aurora
  • 89th Troop Command
    • 5th Battalion, 19th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Watkins
    • 193rd Military Police Battalion (I / R), Denver
  • 2nd Battalion (General Support), 135th Aviation Regiment, Buckley AFB, Aurora
    • 131st Maintenance Company (Avionics)
    • Company D (Medical Evacuation), 3rd Battalion, 140th Aviation Regiment
    • 117th Space Support Battalion, Colorado Springs
    • HHC
    • 217th Space Company
    • 1158th Space Company
  • 1st Battalion, 157th Infantry Regiment, Colorado Springs
  • Special Operations Detachment, Korea (SOD-K), Buckley AFB, Aurora
    • 168th Regiment, Regional Training Institute (RTI)
    • Centennial Training Site (CTS)
    • Basic Leader Course
  • 100th Missile Defense Brigade (Ground-Based Midcourse Defense), Colorado Springs
  • Colorado Army National Guard Medical Command, Buckley AFB, Aurora
  • Colorado National Guard Mobilization / Augmentation Element NORAD-USNORTHCOM
  • Joint Forces Headquarters, Centennial
    • 101st Army Band
    • 104th Public Affairs Detachment
    • 891st Trial Defense Team
    • 8th Civil Support Team

Units of the Colorado Air National Guard

  • 140th Fighter Wing (founded June 27, 1923 as the 120th Observation Squadron) at Buckley Air Force Base, Aurora
  • 137th Space Warning Squadron at Greeley Air National Guard Station, Greeley

Web links

Commons : Colorado National Guard  - Collection of Pictures, Videos, and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ DoD Personnel, Workforce Reports & Publications . DoD. Retrieved September 25, 2017.