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The division continues to serve today, with most of the division part of the Minnesota and Iowa National Guard. In 2011, it was staffed by roughly 6,500 soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard, [5] 2,900 from the Iowa National Guard, about 300 from the Nebraska National Guard, and about 100 from other states. [6]
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In March, the National Guard announced a possible deployment of around 2,000 soldiers from across the Minnesota National Guard to Iraq sometime in the next two years. [60] [61] Walz said he would deploy if called upon. [62] The National Guard finished processing his retirement paperwork in May, and Walz retired from military service on May 16.
Minnesota National Guard M-ATVs in front of Uptown Theater on April 12, 2021. The killing of Daunte Wright, a Black [41] man, by a police officer took place in the adjacent Minneapolis suburb of Brooklyn Center on April 11, 2021. Protests and unrest over Wright's death intersected with the looming verdict in Chauvin's criminal trial.
Captain Raymond S. Miller prepares for the historic flight from St. Paul, Minnesota to Washington, D.C., in rented a Curtiss Oriole biplane, with plans for the first air unit of the post-World War I National Guard observation unit, 26 September 1920. In 1920 the Minnesota National Guard organized an aviation squadron, the 109th, on paper.
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The wing directly or indirectly supports approximately 5,000 members of the Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command, Minnesota Air National Guard, U.S. Army Reserve, Minnesota Army National Guard, U.S. Navy Reserve, U.S. Marine Corps Reserve and the Minnesota Wing of the Civil Air Patrol.
The division was created on 10 June 1946 as a National Guard infantry division from the efforts of Minnesota's Adjutant General Ellard Walsh. The division was built from scratch with veteran transfers and new recruits, mostly from Minnesota and North Dakota, under the command of Major General Norman Hendrickson.