CAPABILITIES - ARMY The North Dakota Army National Guard (NDARNG) provides trained, equipped, and ready forces capable of mobilizing in support of federal and state missions. Command and control to plan, integrate, and direct units in support of force application or focused logistics. These capabilites also includes direct and habitual combat sustainment in support of unified land operations. Support area operations, unit-level personnel service, and logistical support. The Guard also provides staff, aircraft, and crews in support of local law enforcement for drug interdiction missions.
CIVIL SUPPORT TEAM
Identifies Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear (CBRN) incidents to counter weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The team advises, assists, and identifies potential hazards at WMD incidents, in support of the incident commander.
MILITARY POLICE
Provides MP battlefield circulation control, law and order, civil disturbance control, area security, and enemy prisoner of war operations in combat.
AVIATION
Aero-medical evacuation, air movement, air assault, aerial sustainment, search and rescue, reconnaissance, and observation.
ENGINEERING
Engineer capabilities include construction support equipment, concrete placement, vertical and horizontal construction for establishing and maintaining the infrastructure required to conduct and sustain activities across the range of military operations. This includes limited construction and facility repairs in a public works capacity to echelons above brigade. Combat engineer (Sapper) units can provide field maintenance as well as providing mobility and counter-mobility to supported units. The unit can transport, assemble, disassemble,
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retrieve, and maintain all standard and nonstandard U.S. Army bridges.
AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY
Provides short-range air defense and early warning.
ARMY BAND
Provides music throughout the full spectrum of military operations, fostering support from our citizens, inspiring Soldiers to fight and win, and promoting our nation’s interests at home and abroad.
PUBLIC AFFAIRS
Provides public affairs support to units deployed in support of Army, Joint, Combined, or Unified Operations and units conducting peacetime training. They also provide direct public affairs support to units deployed or activated in support of a Joint Task Force or Regional Response Platform supporting local and state emergencies.
SIGNAL
Conducts 24-hour operational Command, Control, Communications, Computer, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C4ISR) signal systems network.
CYBER
Provides hunt, clear, and defend support to the U.S. Critical Infrastructure Key Resources (CIKR) and U.S. Military Services and Combatant Commands Key Cyber terrain.
MEDICAL
Conducts physical health assessments and administers vaccinations to all Soldiers in the NDARNG. Provides medical support for Soldier readiness programs, deploying units, as well as battlefield medical support.
Staff Sgt. Derrik Stratman, right, and Pfc. Quentin Beiningen, both of the 1st Battalion, 188th Air Defense Artillery Regiment, conduct ManPortable Air Defense System engagements during Exercise America’s Shield, Camp Grafton Training Center, North Dakota, May 19, 2021.
