Indiana National Guard

About 400 Indiana National Guard soldiers will be in Florida this week to assist in recovery and relief efforts in the wake of Hurricane Milton.

Officials said the deployment is expected to last twelve months, with nine months spent overseas.

An Indiana National Guard member was involved in a shooting at the southern border Sunday but details are scant while an investigation continues.

The core controversy surrounds a provision that would take away service members' right to request a court-martial to dispute lower-level non-judicial punishments.

Guard leaders suggest the issues comes down to who has the power to convene a general court-martial.

At Muscatatuck — where the three Dutch Commando Corps members involved in the shooting were training — “everything in the city and surrounding property, including the people, is ‘in play,’” its website says.

Bloomington leaders clash with county commissioners over convention center plans, the Indiana National Guard struggles with recruitment, and the Vincennes Friendship Clubhouse works to improve the lives of people with mental illness.

U.S. Army officials reported that its force will total 466,000, about 10,000 short of expectations.

Mohammad Zaki Ahmadi recited the oath of enlistment and signed his paperwork for a three-year commitment to the Guard during a March 3 ceremony at the Indianapolis Military Entry Processing Station in Lawrence.