DUSHANBE, Tajikistan - Virginia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen conducted an exchange with the Republic of Tajikistan focusing on noncommissioned officer and junior officer development Feb. 17-21.

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has deployed National Guard troops to secure state-run prisons amid a wildcat strike by corrections workers. Picketing and striking by corrections officers took place at ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul began sending the National Guard to New York’s prisons, where officers have refused to come to work in protest of what they say are hazardous conditions. By Ed Shanahan and Jan ...

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul announced on Tuesday preparations to use the New York National Guard to protect correction officers who are currently on the job, inmates, and the communities ...

The governor is for the strikes to end immediately and is preparing to deploy the New York National Guard if correction officers don’t go back to work on Wednesday. She released a statement ...

Kathy Hochul threatened Tuesday to deploy National Guard troops to restore order as a strike among prison guards across the state entered its second day. State officials and union leaders agree that ...

Albany, NY — Governor Kathy Hochul is preparing to deploy the New York National Guard to correctional facilities across the state to ensure the safety of correction officers, incarcerated ...

I have directed my Administration to meet with union leadership to resolve this situation and have also ordered the National Guard be mobilized to secure our correctional facilities in the event ...

ALBANY – Gov. Kathy Hochul on Tuesday ordered the New York National Guard to be prepared to secure state prisons if correction officers do not end their “illegal and unlawful” strike at 25 ...

Groveland, N.Y. (WHAM) — The National Guard is now on standby amid a tense workers' strike at New York state prisons. Gov. Kathy Hochul ordered the New York National Guard to respond Wednesday ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — New York State is preparing to send the New York National Guard to staff prisons across the state where correction officers have gone on strike, Gov. Kathy Hochul’s ...

If the strike does not end on Wednesday, the state said it is preparing to deploy the New York National Guard to DOCCS facilities where officers are on strike and "will begin to take appropriate ...