Wisconsin National Guard Public Affairs
Office
Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar, adjutant general
of Wisconsin, was named the new vice chairman-Air for the board of directors of
the nation's oldest military service organization.
Dunbar was selected to serve as an
officer of the 29-member panel by National Guard Association of the United
States (NGAUS) delegates at the organization's recent 134th General Conference
and Exhibition in Reno, Nev.
"It is an honor to serve in this
capacity for the NGAUS membership," Dunbar said. "The Air National
Guard adds tremendous value to our nation's defense, especially in this
fiscally constrained environment, and I look forward to working with the
National Guard Bureau and the U.S. Air Force at this critical juncture."
Officers for the NGAUS board of
directors include a chairman, vice-chairmen for Army and Air, an immediate past
chairman, president, treasurer and secretary. If the chairman is absent or the
position is vacant, the vice-chairman of the same component as the chairman
will succeed. The newly elected NGAUS chairman, Maj. Gen. Stephen Danner, is a
member of the Missouri Army National Guard and the adjutant general of
Missouri.
The NGAUS board functions as the
association's governing body. It has responsibility for such areas as the
annual budget and large contractions. Members serve overlapping two- or
three-year terms.
Responsibility for day-to-day activities
of the NGAUS staff in Washington, D.C., falls on the association president,
currently retired Maj. Gen. Gus L. Hargett Jr., who works for the board.
The association includes nearly 45,000
current or former Guard officers. It was created in 1878 to provide unified
National Guard representation in Washington. In their first productive meeting
after Reconstruction, militia officers from the North and South formed the
association with the goal of obtaining better equipment and training by
petitioning Congress for more resources. Today, 134 years later, NGAUS has the
same mission.
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment