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Vermont National Guard describes expanded overseas deployments, domestic response work
Summary
Adjutant General Major General Knight told the Government Operations & Military Affairs committee the Vermont National Guard is heavily engaged overseas and at home, citing air deployments to the Indo-Pacific, a 1,000‑member infantry brigade exercise in Europe, and domestic emergency response work including flood rescues and COVID support.
Major General Knight, Adjutant General of the Vermont National Guard, told the House Government Operations & Military Affairs committee that the Guard is carrying out multiple overseas and domestic missions while sustaining readiness at home.
Knight said roughly 275 Air National Guard members and some aircraft are operating with U.S. allies in the Indo‑Pacific for about 90 days to practice "agile combat employment," a dispersed, logistically austere way of operating the Air Force in future conflicts. "The focus is interoperability," he said.
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