Army Reserve and National Guard Meet for Cybersecurity Training

Cyber Shield 2025, hosted at the Virginia National Guard State Military Reservation, was attended by nearly a thousand members of the defense community, according to an Army story.

The two-week event trained attendees on cybersecurity through challenges and gave them the opportunity to earn official certifications. Cyber Shield also brought together members from across the country and from different branches to collaborate and learn from each other.

“We are here to exercise our capabilities as a team to find out how we’re operating in an incident response,” said Maj. Jeremy Wright, team lead for the Defensive Cyber Operations Element, Joint Force Headquarters, Iowa National Guard. “We [came here to] get training in the first week and then see how good we are in the second week.”

Georgia Community Finalizing IGSA with Two Installations

Clarkesville, Georgia was last week finalizing an Intergovernmental Support Agreement with Camp Merrill and Fort Benning. The plan would pay the city for coordinating independent contractors to do service work on the installations, including landscaping and machinery maintenance. The agreement would begin in August and bring the city a projected $50,000, Now Habersham reported.

Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jasmine McCarthy