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Michigan National Guard tells House committee it is stretched but ready; highlights Northern Strike and training assets
Summary
Adjutant General Paul Rogers told the Michigan House Committee on Homeland Security the Guard fields roughly 10,000 members across 41 communities, runs large multinational exercises such as Northern Strike and relies on state partnerships to sustain readiness and community missions.
Adjutant General Paul Rogers told the Michigan House Committee on Homeland Security and Foreign Influence that the Michigan National Guard remains heavily engaged at home and abroad and that the state's training assets are a strategic advantage.
Rogers, who leads the Michigan Department of Military and Veterans Affairs, said the Guard's uniformed force is "just under 10,000 members," with about 2,500 in the Air National Guard and the remainder in the Army Guard. "We have close to 1,100 members of Michigan National Guard not serving in Michigan but serving elsewhere. Seven hundred of those are overseas," he said, adding deployments span roughly 17…
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