Transcripts, Speeches, Testimonies, & Key Correspondence
Transcripts represent verbatim text captured after the fact. Prepared
remarks were not necessarily presented as written.
- DoD Briefing with Lt Col Allison from the Pentagon Briefing Room, Arlington, VA and Mr. Shawn Waddoups, Via Teleconference from Aghanistan - September 26, 2008
- New York Guard Brigade Deployment to Afghanistan - U.S. Army Col. Brian Balfe, who assumed command of the Combined Joint Task Phoenix VII last month,
discussed the mobilization and deployment of the New York Army National Guard 27th Brigade Combat Team to Afghanistan on the bloggers roundtable.
[8MB MP3] or [PDF] - May 15, 2008
- Air & Space Conference, Sept. 17, 2008 in Washington, D.C.
Lt. Gen. Craig McKinley, director of the Air National Guard "National Guard Issues" - September 17, 2008
- Commission on the National Guard and Reserves Report
Audio Transcripts -
March 1, 2007
· Punaro comments [11 MB MP3]
· Thompson comments [5 MB MP3]
· Lewis comments [4 MB MP3]
· CNGR Q & A [21 MB MP3]
- CNGB
Testimony -- Commission on the National Guard and Reserves [doc] -
May 3, 2006
- Prepared
Testimony on National Guard and Reserve Posture Overview [doc] -
April 26, 2006
- CNGB
Testimony – Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Emerging Threats [pdf] -
March 10, 2006
- LTG
Blum - Written Testimony - Hurricane Katrina Hearing [doc] -
February 9, 2006
- Joint Forces
Quarterly (#36 – Spring 05): CNGB’s “Vision of the Guard” [pdf] -
February 15, 2005
- Joint
Forces Quarterly (#36 – Spring 05): The National Guard and Homeland
Defense [pdf] - February 15, 2005
- HASC
Transcripts [rtf] - February 2, 2005
- Transcript
- LTG Blum presentation to the 35th IFPA – Fletcher Conference
on National Security Strategy and Policy [doc] -
October 28, 2004
- Slides
- LTG Blum presentation to the 35th IFPA – Fletcher Conference
on National Security Strategy and Policy [ppt] -
October 28, 2004
- Transcript
- LTG Blum to the Military Officers Association of America (Nashville,
TN) [doc] - October 15, 2004
- Prepared
Remarks - LTG Blum to NGAUS (Las Vegas, NV) [doc] -
September 15, 2004
- Letter
- LTG Blum to the Adjutants General [doc] -
May 7, 2004
- CNGB
Prepared remarks and slides - National Governor’s Association [doc] -
February 22, 2004
- Briefing
on the Force Rotation Plan - November 6, 2003
- NGB
response to SecDef Guidance [pdf] -
September 30, 2003
- Secretary
of Defense Guidance to NGB [pdf] -
July 30, 2003
- LTG
Blum to the States, Subject National Guard Bureau Transformation [pdf] -
July 1, 2003
- NGB
Chief Briefing on the Transforming Roles of the National Guard -
May 16, 2003
- Testimony
– LTG Blum before the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense [doc] -
May 7, 2003