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Chief Master Sgt. Jeffrey Horne Retires After 40 Years
February 6, 2025
Chief Master Sgt. Jeffrey Horne retires from the Nebraska Air National Guard Feb. 1, 2025 after 40 years of service at the Nebraska National Guard’s Joint Force Headquarters, Lincoln, Nebraska. Horne served as the eighth state command chief master sergeant for the Nebraska Air National Guard. 



(U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Jamie Syniy)

Echoes of Valor: Nebraska National Guard Returns to Bastogne 80 Years Later
January 2, 2025
Five members of the Nebraska National Guard travelled to Bastogne, Belgium, Jan. 9-14, 2025, where they helped commemorate the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the city by Soldiers of Nebraska National Guard’s 134th Infantry Regiment under the 35th Infantry Division, during World War II. 

The service members participated in a wreath laying ceremony at a memorial honoring those who liberated the region from Nazi Germany. Joining them in the ceremony were local residents and officials from the city of Lutremange as well as the Timberwolves Remembrance Group Belgium, a reenactment group in Belgium.

The Nebraska Soldiers and Airmen also travelled to the Luxembourg American Cemetery Memorial where they visited the graves of service members laid to rest there while also placing a wreath at the grave marker for Technical Sergeant John Cantoni, a Nebraska National Guardsman from Omaha, Nebraska. Cantoni was killed in action on Jan. 4, 1944, when his foxhole was struck by German fire as he and other members of his unit were defending Bastogne. He had been with the company for less than a week after recovering from wounds he received during the Battle of St. Lo in July 1944.

Nebraska National Guard sniper team wins national championship at Winston P Wilson Matches
January 2, 2025
A two-person Nebraska Army National Guard sniper team shot their way to a national title, Dec. 13, when they placed first at the 54th Winston P. Wilson Sniper Championship, held Dec. 6-13 at the Fort Chaffee Joint Maneuver Training Center in Barling Arkansas.

In winning the title, Nebraska’s Staff Sgt. Marc Cruz and Sgt. Chance Baumann – infantrymen who serve in the sniper section of the Lincoln-based Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2-134th Infantry (Airborne) – outshot similar teams from the Michigan and Iowa National Guard enroute to the championship.