Sent in by Veterans News and Information Services The National Guard celebrates its 362nd birthday Wednesday, Dec. 2,
at noon at the Russell Senate Office Building, Room 325, on Capitol Hill.
The event commemorates the 362nd anniversary of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony forming the first permanent militia regiments in colonial
America. Their creation in 1636 was the birth of the state-organized
defense forces known as the National Guard, now a part of the Department of
Defense's Total Force.
Gen. Henry H. Shelton, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is
scheduled to join lawmakers and several National Guard dignitaries
(including Lt. Gen. Russell C. Davis, chief of the National Guard Bureau at
the Pentagon) at the ceremony.
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