C A L I F O R N I A NATIONAL GUARD

2016 YEAR IN REVIEWLEADERSHIP LOOKBACK

LEADERSHIP LOOKBACKLEADERSHIP LOOKBACK“The California Military Department was a dynamic and active force in 2016. We deployed thousands of Soldiers and Airmen to Afghanistan and across the Middle East and dedicated significant personnel and resources to our international training partnerships with Ukraine and Nigeria. At home, we continued to support CAL FIRE in battling the state’s wildfires and conducted several life-saving rescue missions in communities across California. We expanded our Youth and Community programs by preparing for the January 2017 launch of the Discovery ChalleNGe Academy, the third Cal Guard youth program of its kind. We stood up our California State Military Reserve Maritime Support Command, offering our State Military Reservists an opportunity to serve in a maritime environment. Our organization is forging a path to the future as we take on the enormous challenges presented by cyber threats. This year our state was identified to mobilize cyber forces to Fort Meade to engineer, install, operate, and maintain critical network infrastructure for United States Cyber Command. The Cal Guard remains committed to keeping California safe and our nation secure.”

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LIFESAVING: Soldiers search through rubble while looking for survivors during disaster response training.

MENDOCINO: Cal Guard aviators and emergency-

response personnel join two-day interagency

training to rehearse spotting and hoisting distressed

citizens and canines from the forests surrounding Lake

Mendocino.GLOBAL REACH: Cal Guard hosts military attaches from 27 countries at Joint Forces Training Base.

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Major General David S. BaldwinThe Adjutant General

Major General David S. BaldwinThe Adjutant General

YOUTH PROGRAMS: Producing cadets with the values, skills, education and self-discipline necessary to succeed as an adult.

SUPER BOWL: More than 1,300 Cal Guardsmen provide security and emergency-response capabilities surrounding Super Bowl 50.

COMMUNITY PROGRAMS: Airmen work with local community to provide a holiday carnival for deaf and hard-of-hearing children.

FRESNO COUNTY: Cal Guard Airmen, Soldiers,

and State Military Reservists join Fresno

County Sheriff’s Office for an interagency search and rescue

exercise at Hume Lake.

“Our Soldiers and Airmen work directly with Gov. Brown’s office and his Office of Emergency Services to ensure the highest degree of interagency cooperation during emergency-response operations.” - Maj. Gen. Baldwin

“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

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This last year has yet again proven to me that California has some of the most proficient and competent service members in the world. You have all dedicated yourselves and sacrificed much to support and defend our state and nation. In our always changing and evolving world, it is more important now than ever to focus on the development of every member of our team in order to become a physically stronger, institutionally smarter, operationally trained and strategically adaptive organization. If you stay ready, you won’t have to get ready!

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Command Sergeant Major William Clark Jr.Senior Enlisted Advisor to The Adjutant General

NIGERIA: Offering subject-matter experts to help with air-to-ground integration. UKRAINE: Commander of the Ukraine

National Guard makes week-long visit to Cal Guard sites across the state.

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

CAMP ROBERTS and LOS ALAMITOS: Both installations are honored with Army National Guard Environmental Awards. Camp Roberts is recognized as the nation’s top installation in the Environmental Restoration category and Los Alamitos is honored for a wide variety of initiatives to achieve long-term environmental goals.

STATE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

“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.” - Maj. Gen. Baldwin

QUALITY INFRASTRUCTURE

“The Cal Guard’s State Partnership Program, established more than 20 years ago, provides valuable mentoring and expertise to our counterparts in Ukraine and Nigeria.” - Command Sgt. Maj. Clark

READY CIVIL SUPPORT

MONTEREY COUNTY: Nearly 400 Soldiers deploy to fire lines from Carmel to Big Sur while helping to fight 70,000-acre Soberanes Fire.

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FEBRUARY MARCH1 JANUARY 2016

CALGUARD 2016 TIMELINE

LEADERSHIP LOOKBACK

STATE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM

Airmen from Fresno’s 144th Fighter Wing return home from Operation Freedom Sentinel.

Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James visits the 129th Rescue Wing.

Fresno’s 40th Combat Aviation Brigade accepts

the Transfer of Authority and

takes command at Camp Buehring,

Kuwait.

Soldiers from Cal Guard’s Counterdrug Task Force are honored with a High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area award for their field operations work.

A groundbreaking and renovation ceremony is held in Stockton for the Discovery ChalleNGe Academy, California National Guard’s third at-risk youth academy.

The 100th Missile Defense Brigade and its Cal Guard

detachment at Vandenberg Air Force

Base test launch a long-range ground-

based interceptor, which protects the

nation from nuclear missile attack.

Capt. Estelle Hong, the nation’s second woman to command an Army Sapper company, speaks at the State Capitol about women in combat roles.

Fresno’s 144th Fighter Wing participates in Red Flag, a multinational exercise at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

Cal Guard and the Joint Multinational Training Command agreed to continue a partnership with the Ukrainian Armed forces to further develop them to a level of NATO interoperability by 2020.

Soldiers, Airmen and State Military Reserve provide security and support during Super Bowl 50.

Los Alamitos’ 40th Infantry Division ramps up for Kosovo mission with pre-deployment training exercise at Joint Multinational Readiness Center in Hohenfels, Germany.

Soldier from Recruiting Command rescues woman from sinking car.

Women Warriors week declared by state Capitol.

Annual awards banquet honors top Airmen, Soldiers and State Military Reservists.

Riverside’s 163d Attack Wing provides aerial support for the U.S. Marine Corps Infantry Officer Course culminating exercise, Talon Reach, in Twentynine Palms.

14,3302,169 FULL-TIME PERSONNEL

11%34%34%

39%39%Maintains nearly of the operating force.

Makes up of all Army personnel.

Accounts for less than of the overall Army budget.

NATIONWIDE, THEARMY NATIONAL GUARD:

Soldiers assigned:

LESS THAN

Maintained an inventory of

$2.3 Billionin equipment during 2016.

Mission Statement: The California Army National Guard organizes, trains, equips and resources community based land forces. On order, mobilizes to support state and/or federal authority.

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D E P L O Y E DI N 2 0 1 61,059

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Sgt. Demetri ‘Hank’ Iannois wins title of the U.S. Army’s ‘Top Shot’ while Team California won All Army Mul-tigun Team Champion for the fourth consecutive year.

Los Alamitos’ 9th Civil Support Team conducts air, water and underground radiation training drills to prevent international smuggling.

Army and Air aviation crews train with CAL FIRE in Sutter Creek in preparation for the upcoming wildfire season.

Stockton’s Chief Warrant Officer 3 Nathan Champion awarded for heroism for saving the lives of eight firefighters trapped by a wildfire.

Channel Islands’ 146th Airlift Wing prepare their C-130 Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems for the upcoming wildfire season and host annual certification and training for MAFFS units around the country.

Ventura and Santa Maria’s Bravo Battery, 1st Battalion, 143rd Field Artillery Regiment train with an active duty Stryker unit at Camp Roberts as part of an evolving Army Total Force Partnership Program.

Stockton’s Bravo Company, 126th Aviation Regiment lends support on President Obama’s visit to Yosemite to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the National Park System.

Groundbreaking held for Sacramento branch of the

statewide military museum.

Fresno’s 1106thTheater Aviation

Support Maintenance Group deploys to

Kuwait for Operation Inherent Resolve.

State Headquarters’

Inspector General office honored with

Secretary of Air Force Lt. Gen. John P. Flynn

award for ‘Best IG Complaints

Resolution Program Office.’

40th Combat Aviation Brigade conducts operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

California Military Department biathlon team competes at the Tahoe Spring Biathlon Classic.

Roseville’s 115th Regional Support Group sets up a Joint Reception, Staging, Onward Movement, Integration exercise at Beale Air Force Base to train for emergency response.

1,571 FULL-TIME PERSONNEL

LESS THAN Scramble time for pilots from Fresno’s 144th Fighter Wing to respond to a threat in California’s airspace.

Airmen assigned:

$624/hr

17,9761,332

In 2016, CA ANG Airmen deployed or traveled to 30 different countries across all 7 continents, including Antarctica.

D E P L O Y E DS I N C E 9 / 1 1

D E P L O Y E DI N 2 0 1 6

Hourly federal user rate for Riverside’s 163rd Attack Wing’s MQ-9 Remotely Piloted Aircraft

Mission Statement: The California Air National Guard is a ready, reliable, relevant and learning force providing skilled Airmen and modern equipment seamlessly operating across air, space and cyberspace domains in support of combatant commands and interagency partners.

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JUNE JULY AUGUST SEPTEMBER

CALGUARD 2016 TIMELINESoldiers from Manhattan Beach’s 578th Brigade Engineer Battalion and Seaside’s 340th Brigade Support Battalion form a task force to be trained as hand crews in support of CAL FIRE and deploy to fight the Soberanes Fire near Monterey.

129th Rescue Wing Airmen rescue a sick sailor aboard a Canadian frigate 800 miles off the coast of San Francisco.

Assistant Secretary of Defense Todd Weiler visits the STARBASE Sacramento location .

Cal Guard aviation teams join Mendocino personnel to practice interagency search-and-rescue response.

Cal Guard teens participate in Annual Teen Symposium.

Fresno’s 1106thTheater Aviation

Support Maintenance Group deploys to

Kuwait for Operation Inherent Resolve.

Two Fresno Soldiers awarded for Environmental Excellence by the National Guard Environmental Performance System team for a rare ZERO findings for their unit.

Airmen from Fresno’s 144th Fighter Wing return from a four-month deployment to Romania, Bulgaria and Iceland.

100th Troop Command participates in Yudh Abhyas exercise in India.

Soldiers from the 224th Sustainment Brigade head to South Korea for the world’s largest computerized command and control exercise, Ulchi Freedom Guardian, which is an annual combined military exercise between South Korea and the United States, and focuses on the two country’s combined efforts to maintain the country’s sovereignty.

California State Military Reserve Maritime Command introduced during September events including Los Angeles Fleet Week and the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Air Show.

1,221State Military ReservistsArmy, Air and Maritime:

5 FULL-TIME PERSONNEL187 STATE ACTIVE DUTY MEMBERS

State Military Reservists offer Legal Support, Chaplain Support, Behavior Health Support, Wildfire Support, Law Enforcement Opera-tions and Operation Archive.

Doctors

Lawyers

Veterans

Engineers

Subject-matter

experts make

up this unique

force

Mission 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.

1,1081,428Days of volunteer service by CSMR Chaplains

Days of volunteer service by CSMR Religious Affairs NCO and Staff

CSMRCHAPLAIN

CORPS

VOLUNTEER HOURSPERFORMED130,000

VALUE OF VOLUNTEERHOURS

$3,493,100

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SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER

CALGUARD 2016 TIMELINEMore than 60 soldiers from the 40th Infantry Division serve as the Higher Control during Exercise Allied Spirit V at 7th Army Training Command’s Hohenfels Training Area, Germany.

Deployed Soldiers from our 49th Military Police Brigade help secure and recover from Hurricane Matthew’s aftermath as it passed within reach of Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Cal Guard Soldiers and Airmen support Vigilant Guard 17, the largest Vigilant Guard exercise in the nation to date.

Airmen from Channel Islands’ 146th Airlift Wing return from deployment to Southwest Asia where they performed supply missions and provided combat service support in the Persian Gulf Region.

129th Rescue Wing shows its aquatic and land vehicles at the Dreamforce Conference in San Francisco.

Each year our higher commands send their top NCOs and Soldiers to compete at the state level Best Warrior Competition at Camp San Luis Obispo.

Sunburst Youth Academy hosts graduation ceremony for cadets completing the program’s residential-phase.

Camp Roberts hosts twenty-five firefighters from several Central Coast fire departments for training in communication and ignition of preemptive burns to counter-wildfires.

Soldiers, Airmen and their families gather at armories across the state for holiday drill weekend parties where service awards are presented and gifts are given to those less fortunate.

Chico’s 649th Engineer Co. deploys to the Middle East to work on infra-structure improvements including airfields, roads and force protection structures.

The Cal Guard supports 79 Veterans Day events, for a total of 372 community relations events in 2016.

Statewide: The California Cadet Corps (CCC) partners with schools throughout the state to develop leadership, improve academics, foster school safety and develop citizenship.

86%of graduates pursue

higher education

Oakland: The Oakland Military Institute is a college preparatory academy that far exceeds the state average for the percentage of students who continue on to advanced studies. In 2016, 84% of graduates went on to college.

100%of Seniors graduated in 2016.

Los Alamitos: Sunburst Youth ChalleNGe Academy has been recognized as one of the nation’s top ChalleNGe programs. The academy’s main goal is turning around the lives of 16- to 18-year-old high school dropouts.

90%San Luis Obispo: Grizzly Youth ChalleNGe Academy has been recognized as one of the nation’s top ChalleNGe programs for bringing discipline and structure to the lives of 16- to 18-year-old high school dropouts. Both Grizzly and Sunburst enroll more than 400 cadets each year.

completion rate for classes at both schools during 2016. Grizzly and Sunburst both posted their highest number of graduates to date.

Sacramento and Los Alamitos: A 5-day curriculum, STARBASE programs inspire 5th graders toward studies and careers in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) with experiential “hands on, minds on” activities. Assistant Secretary of Defense Todd Weiler visited the STARBASE Sacramento location in August.

3,200 students attended in 2016

Lathrop: Our third ChalleNGe program, Discovery ChalleNGe Academy, exceeded expectations by opening its doors at the beginning of 2017. The academy will serve 240 potential cadets.

Mission 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.

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40th Combat Aviation Brigade

129th Rescue Wing

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79th Infantry Brigade Combat Team

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100th Troop Command

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503,210pounds of retardantdropped on wildfires

Number of Personnel 1,000+ Days on Fire Line 29

Hand Crews

58,000cleared

feet of fire line

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“By the Numbers” 2016

First Sergeant: Master Sergeant Monique L. Rivera129th Rescue Wing - Mountain View

Senior Non-Commissioned Officer: Senior Master Sgt. Gilbert E. Sanchez 163rd Attack Wing - RiversideNon-Commissioned Officer: Technical Sergeant Douglas D. Bailey

195th Wing - Beale Air Force BaseAirman: Senior Airman Tiffany A. Gill

195th Wing - Beale Air Force Base

Non-Commissioned Officer: Sergeant Paul South 1st Battalion, 144th Field Artillery Regiment - Burbank

Soldier: Specialist Nicholas ManessHeadquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 184th Infantry Regiment - Modesto

Non-Commissioned Officer: Sergeant Thomas Fitzgibbon Training Command - SacramentoSoldier: Specialist Kenneth Bertram

Installation Support Command - Los Alamitos

Our annual top performers were awarded in February 2016 for their outstanding achievement and commitment to the California National Guard.

in seizures of illegal drugs, weapons, property and currency during Counter Drug Task Force Operations including:

marijuana plants

of cocaine, meth and heroin.

$4.9 billion

3.2 million

16,930 lbs