U.S. Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Ryan Campbell, the senior enlisted leader of Patriot 25 at the Guardian Centers in Perry, Georgia, discusses the exercise's value and the benefits it provides to National Guard members and participating agencies, March 27, 2025. Patriot 25, headquartered at the Air Dominance Center this year, is a premier National Guard disaster response exercise uniting military and civilian agencies to train for large-scale emergencies, including search and rescue, medical evacuations, and critical infrastructure assessments. (U.S. Air National Guard video by Senior Airman Christa Ross) (Music is released by Motion Array under the Content License, which makes it safe to use without asking for permission or giving...
Major General Matthew Smith retired from military service during a ceremony at the Clay National Guard Center in Marietta, Ga. February 28, 2025. Lieutenant General Christopher Laneve, commander of the Eighth Army, was the presiding officer for the ceremony honoring Smith’s 32 years of service in the Army and Georgia National Guard.
In his remarks, Laneve chronicled Smith’s career and praised him for his decades of leadership.
Smith was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in 1993 and subsequently assigned as a platoon leader in Company A, 2nd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment at Fort Stewart and Kuwait. Joining the Georgia National Guard in 1996, Smith initially served as a Signal Platoon leader in Company H, 121st Infantry Regiment...
Lieutenant General Christopher Laneve, commander of the Eighth Army, presents Maj. Gen. Matthew Smith with the Defense Superior Service Medal for his leadership in command of Joint Task Force North from December 2022 to December 2024. Smith retired after nearly 32 years of military service during a ceremony at the Clay National Guard Center in Marietta, Ga. February 28, 2025.
Approximately 430 Airmen from the 165th Airlift Wing participated in large-scale combat readiness exercise Faint Horizon March 6-9, 2025. This exercise was designed to test the Air Force’s new Deployable Combat Wing concept, aimed at enhancing rapid, integrated power projection from dispersed locations.
