Laconia, NH – The New Hampshire Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR), an agency of the Department of Defense, announced today that Leland Beachy, VP Information Security of Laconia Savings Bank was honored with a Patriot Award in recognition of extraordinary support of his employee CW3 Ralph Wegner who serves in the New Hampshire Army National Guard.

York – Consider some of the numbers: 5,640, $210,591,891, $783,389,638 and $664,020,987.  Those figures for 2009 represent (in order): The total count of Nebraska Army and Air National Guard personnel, their annual payroll, value of their equipment and resources in the state and, finally, the value of real property and capital assets held by the Guard in Nebraska.
 

(Marietta, GA) – Tom Wessels, Field Chair of the Georgia Committee for Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Committee (ESGR), an agency of the Department of Defense, announced that Maj. Gen. James T. Rubeor, Commander, 22nd Air Force, signed a Statement of Support for the National Guard and Reserve on Monday, June 8, 2009.  The signing ceremony was held at Dobbins Air Reserve Base, GA.