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NATIONAL GUARD ON-THE-RECORD PENTAGON PRESS BRIEFING ROOM

June 24, 2021

TOPICTOPIC SUBJECT MATTER EXPERT EXPERTS

State of the Guard  Army General Daniel R. Hokanson, Chief, National 

Guard Bureau

Introduction – Tracy O’Grady-Walsh (Moderator):

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us today to talk about the National Guard. General 

Daniel Hokanson, the chief of the National Guard Bureau, is here to discuss the new mission, 

vision and priorities he has set for over 450,000 soldiers and airmen of the National Guard. He 

will make an opening statement, and then I will call on you from here in the room, as well as 

from the call-in roster, and alternate between the two. You'll be able to ask one question, and 

then I will call on the next reporter so we can get through as many as possible. With that, I'd like 

to introduce to you General Daniel Hokanson. Sir, over to you.

Opening Statement – General Daniel R. Hokanson:

Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and thank you for the opportunity to provide an update on 

our National Guard. Let me start with a single number: 12 million, 12 million people. That 

represents moms, dads, grandparents, neighbors and friends who have received their COVID-19 

vaccination from either National Guard soldiers or National Guard airmen. Although it is a 

significant number, it is just one number in the many missions we do every single day.

Another number is 21 million. That's the number of personnel days for all missions the National 

Guard performed in 2020. Whatever the mission -- combat deployments, COVID, wildfires, civil 

disturbances or severe storms, the National Guard answered every call in 2020 and 2021, as we 

have for the past 384 years.

As a combat reserve of the Army and the Air Force, we are manned, trained and equipped to 

fight our nation's wars. But in times of emergency, our people, training and equipment help us 

respond to our communities.
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Last June, more National Guard troops were mobilized than at any time since World War II. 

Nearly 120,000 soldiers and airmen were mobilized supporting combatant commanders overseas 

or in domestic operations here at home, and despite the COVID environment, we continued our 

military training and met every overseas deployment.

In January, in response to the attack on the Capitol, we mobilized and deployed over 26,000 

National Guardsmen to D.C. within two weeks. Using organic National Guard air support and 

logistics, soldiers and airmen from every single state and territory arrived to help secure our 59th 

presidential inauguration. "Always ready, always there" is more than our motto; It's our promise.

This past year was an extraordinary one for the National Guard, and in the interest of time, I'd 

like to highlight just one weekend: Labor Day of '19 -- of 2020. That weekend, more than 64,000 

National Guardsmen were on duty around the world. Roughly 20,000 were deployed across 34 

nations in support of our combatant commanders. During the same weekend, more than 18,000 

were helping their communities fight COVID-19, from manning testing sites, to supporting longterm care facilities, to working in food banks. More than 3,500 were helping their communities 

recover from Hurricane Laura in Texas and Louisiana. More than 2,600 were on our Southwest 

border, providing aviation and operational support to the Customs and Border Patrol. More than 

1,500 were protecting the rights of peaceful protesters and safeguarding communities against 

violence in Georgia, Texas, Kentucky and Wisconsin. More than 1,100 were guarding America's 

skies, from pilots and maintainers manning the Aerospace Control Alert Mission at fighter and 

tanker bases across the country, to the five 24/7 command-and-control sites in the Continental 

United States, Alaska and Hawaii. More than 90 were operating our nation's ground-based 

missile defense sites in California and Alaska. That same week in Alaska, a team of Guardian 

Angel airmen were awarded the Wilderness Rescue of the Year by the American Red Cross of 

Alaska for rescuing two hikers, one who had fallen more than 100 feet off a cliff.

And still, in the same weekend, specially-modified C-130s from the California and Nevada Air 

National Guard, along with helicopters and unmanned aircraft from multiple states were fighting 

record wildfires. This included the dramatic rescue of 240 people trapped by wildfires in the 

Sierra National Forest by the California National Guard. This daring night rescue in heavy 

smoke was possible because our crews were equipped with modernized helicopters and the 

latest-generation night vision goggles. For their heroism and extraordinary achievement, the air 

crews were awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
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This one weekend tells a story of many weekends for the National Guard. Our country and our 

communities needed us, so the men and women of the National Guard left their families and 

their civilian jobs and proudly served as soldiers and airmen. Their selfless service is both 

important and inspiring.

In addition to our deployments overseas and operations here at home, we have also been busy 

enhancing international partnerships throughout the globe through our State Partnership 

Program. Over the last 27 years, the Department of Defense has formed state partnerships 

between 82 countries and our 54 states, territories and the District of Columbia. Through these 

partnerships, long-term, mutually-beneficial relationships are formed that further combatant 

command and U.S. Chief of Mission goals.

I recently returned from a trip to Africa, where I witnessed the signing ceremony of our newest 

partnership between Egypt and the state of Texas, as well as observed the Utah and Morocco 

state partnership program in action during Exercise African Lion 2021.

It is no surprise the National Guard was ready for the challenges we faced in 2020, and continue 

to face in 2021. The significant investment America has made over the last 20 years has 

transformed our organization from a Cold War strategic reserve to today's operational reserve, 

and clearly highlights the capability, capacity and readiness we bring to the Joint Force when the 

National Guard is resourced and modernized.

One out of every five men and women who wear our nation's uniform is a member of the 

National Guard, and that's one of the reasons I support premium-free health care for our service 

members. Whether they are serving our nation overseas or their communities here at home, it is 

important they have access to medical care so we can keep our promise to remain always ready, 

always there. With that, I welcome your questions.

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Tracy O’Grady-Walsh (Moderator)Thank you, General Hokanson.We'd like to start with A.P. 

on the phones- Lita Baldor, please.
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Reporter Lita Baldor Hi, General. Thanks for doing this. Can you give us a little 

bit of specifics on the funding that is owed the National 

Guard? In several hearings this week, we have heard about 

how desperately the Guard across the country needs to be 

reimbursed for the funding. What will happen specifically 

in some of the states in July, August, if they do not get this 

reimbursement? Thank you.

General Daniel R. Hokanson And, Lita, thank you. So if you look at the Operational 

Capital Response, and the number of troops we had in the 

duration, it cost about $521 million. And what we were 

able to do is use our funding for operations and 

maintenance as well as some of our pay accounts to 

basically front-load that money so that we could pay our 

soldiers and airmen while they were here in the nation's 

capitol. However, that funding is very significant -- that's a 

significant amount to any organization, especially the 

National Guard. And so, for us to able to meet our training, 

and operations, and maintenance requirements for the rest 

of the year, we will need to be reimbursed that funding. 

And I know you asked what the potential ramifications 

might be.

So if we don't get that funding fairly soon we'll have to 

look at not only August but also September, the last two 

months in the fiscal year of either curtailing completely or 

drastically reducing our National Guard drill weekends, 

and annual training as well as our operational maintenance. 

So it will have a very significant impact on National Guard 

readiness if we're not able to resolve that in a timely 

manner.
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Tracy O’Grady-Walsh (Moderator) Yes Ma’am

Reporter So last year the Guard was -- the operational tempo was so 

high essentially, that some of your TAGs started openly 

pleading for an increase in end strength in order to meet so 

many of those missions. And of course the president's 

budget now requests dropping 500 soldiers and airmen 

from the National Guard. How are you guys going to be 

able to make ends meet with fewer people? Are you going 

to advocate to change that number, or advocate not to be 

called on so much -- basically, in order to balance that?

General Daniel R. Hokanson Well, thank you. So we work very closely with our 

adjutants general and look at the OPTEMPO within the 

state. Because what we're really trying to balance is for our 

Guardsmen, their civilian career, their military career and 

their family, and try and find the really -- for lack of a 

better term, the rheostat, where we can allow them to 

maintain that and continue to serve in the National Guard.

And so we look back at 2020, some states had a significant 

increase in the amount of OPTEMPO that they had 

previously had, and so they've asked for additional force 

structure. Those decisions are made at the Secretary of the 

Army and Secretary of the Air Force level. And of course 

like all organizations, we would like to grow if possible.

When you look at that within each state, however, we work 

with the states to make sure that they have the personnel. 

And if it exceeds our capability we have emergency 

management assistance compacts where they can reach out 

to other states to draw those resources in -- very similar to 

what we do during hurricanes.
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In the case of one of the Gulf States where they're hit and it 

exceeds their capability, we meet every year beforehand to 

identify those forces that could come and meet those 

requirements. So until that time we'll continue to use the 

emergency compacts we have between the states, but we're 

always ready to grow if the service secretaries agree to it.

Tracy O’Grady-Walsh (Moderator)All right, on the phone, Steve Beynon, military.com

Reporter, Steve Beynon General, appreciate you taking the time out today to do 

this. I've been talking to a lot of Guardsmen across a lot of 

different states. They're just not getting access to gear to 

train for the ACFT.

It seems like the gear was sent to the states, it's locked up at 

some battalion headquarters, inaccessible to a lot of 

armories at the moment. And these Guardsmen, they're 

having to go to crossfit gyms or find their own equipment, 

they're not getting reimbursed or anything from the Guard. 

Is there any plans to get more gear to armories, or help 

soldiers pay for finances related to their health and fitness?

General Daniel R. Hokanson So, Steve, when we look at the new Army Combat Fitness 

Test, we're fortunate to be able to field all of 100 percent of 

our equipment to all the National Guard units. Now that it's 

in the system, the units can now additionally order other 

sets of equipment or augment what they currently have.

And with any new test, what we're trying to do is really 

determine the best way to do this, and I've -- I've seen 

various states come at it from different directions, and 

within the Army National Guard, we're trying to share 

those best practices, number one, to make sure that our 

soldiers have the -- the ability to train for the test, and then 
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when we do conduct the test, that it goes as smooth as 

possible and we can get everybody through in a -- in a 

timely manner. There's been a lot of great innovative 

approaches. I know there's some apps out there that you 

can download to give you events to train every day to get 

ready for that. I was fortunate our entire staff took it a 

couple of weeks ago and it's a -- it's significantly different 

from the other one but I would tell you each and every one 

of us actually felt like it was a -- a very good challenge and 

it was a very -- a very good test. But as we go forward, we 

need everybody to have that test by August 31st so we can 

actually get more data on what the actual scoring is and the 

capabilities of each and every one of our soldiers and also 

to identify those events that they need to practice on. And 

so when we look at this, we're watching it very closely, 

staying in communication with the states to make sure that 

we can make it possible for everybody to have the 

equipment when they need it and so they can train and be 

successful in that test.

Tracy O’Grady-Walsh (Moderator) Thank you. Here in the room? Yes. Sir

Reporter, Abraham Mahshie Abraham Mahshie. Washington Examiner. Thank you, 

General. Sir, there's been a high demand on the Guard in 

the last year. You described a range that's happening in one 

-- just one weekend. There's been a lot of reports lately that 

this is going to be the new normal. I wondered if you -- if 

you can reflect on can Guard members -- current Guard 

members, future Guard members expect that this is the kind 

of demands that will be placed on them? And then also, sir, 

would you comment on your vision for how Space 

Guardians would be used? What type of civilian jobs would 

you be recruiting for, would you benefit from?

General Daniel R. Hokanson Yeah, thank you, Abraham. So when we look at the -- the 

demands on the National Guard -- and, I mean, last year 

was a great example. Not only did we have the COVID-19 
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pandemic, we had a historic hurricane season and also a 

historic fire season. One thing that we have done is we've 

become a lot better at how we do this, and I'll use fires as 

an example. So previously, prior to a hurricane season, we 

would all meet, identify the states most likely to suffer 

from a hurricane, identify their shortages.

So this year is the first time we've actually done the same 

thing with wildfires. And in March, we had a meeting with 

the national interagency fire committees to really look at --

at what capabilities may be deployed and what capabilities 

are going to be here at home, and then identify those 

shortages so we can train those units so that they're ready to 

fill in and -- and help with wired -- wildfires in the -- in a 

time that they need them there. So that's one thing.

When we look at the future, however, we -- we're not really 

sure what it's going to look like, but what we have to do is 

be prepared to meet whatever that demand signal is. And so 

what we try and tell our folks is hey, you know, we go back 

to our motto -- Always Ready, Always There. We don't 

know what -- what we're going to be asked to do but we've 

got to be ready to do that.

And when we look at the OPTEMPO of the past year -- and 

I'll use the Capitol response as an example -- I spent a lot of 

evenings out there with our soldiers and airmen talking to 

them. And universally, they -- they said "hey, this is what 

we signed up to do." For many of them, it was their first 

trip to the Nation's Capitol but they felt very proud that --

to do their part. Now, over time, we'll see. We keep in very 

close touch with each of the states to help, you know, once 

again find that balance between civilian career, military 

career and family so that we can sustain that.
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One indication we used is our recruiting and retention.

And, you know, having previously served as a Director of 

the Army Guard, you know, a lot of times, the end of the 

fiscal year is the end of September and we would meet our 

-- our recruiting goal in late September. But with respect to 

the Army National Guard, we met our recruiting goal in 

May of this year, which is historically early, which shows 

that a lot of our Guardsmen have re-enlisted -- re-enlisted 

or decided to stay within the organization, and also our 

recruiting's been up, as well, and we're very close tracking 

on the -- on the Air National Guard, as well. So I would say 

based on the ability for us to recruit and retain, that's a 

good indicator that -- that folks are aware of that. Now, 

with respect to the -- the potential Space National Guard, 

folks may not realize but the National Guard has actually 

been conducting space missions for over 25 years. We have 

over 1,000 space professionals in the National Guard and 

we really look forward to them transitioning from the Air 

National Guard to hopefully a -- a Space National Guard in 

the near future. And with mission sets like that, many of 

them are already -- work in the civilian industry, and that's 

one of the great benefits of the National Guard, is we 

leverage not only their military training but many of them 

bring their civilian skill sets to work, which makes our 

organizations even better and vice versa. A lot of the 

leadership skills and training that they receive in the 

military help benefit their employers and their companies. 

So for us, it's a -- it's a win on both accounts.

Reporter Do you have any specifics on civilian areas or more of a --

more broadly, like, what the vision might be for changes?

General Daniel R. Hokanson Yes. So with respect to changes, any growth or changes in 

mission sets will be directed by the -- the Secretary of the 

Air Force, as the Secretary for the Space Force. Under our 

current mission sets, we plan to -- to basically continue 

those until some time in the future, but in many cases, 
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you'll see that they're located near businesses or areas that 

have really compatible civilian jobs, as well, and that's one 

advantage our Guardsmen -- they -- they -- they're 

Guardsmen for a reason, because they want to have that --

the civilian career and their military career.

Tracy O’Grady-Walsh (Moderator) On the phone -- Alex Horton, Washington Post?

Reporter Alex Horton Hey, thanks for doing this. So my question starts 50,000 

years ago -- or 57,000 years ago, when Minot won the 

oldest living human -- that is important to -- to understand 

the links between humans and Neanderthals -- died 

somewhere in a cave in what we now call Israel. That 

number is important because that's how many years was 

spent by Guardsmen on duty in 2020 -- 50,000 years --

57,000 years worth of -- of time.

When -- when I asked you about this in March, about the 

burn rate and assessments on what that has done for the 

force, what is needed to refit and assess what kind of wear 

and tear this put on, you know, people's careers, equipment, 

you know, their civilian side of the house, you didn't 

indicate there was any kind of assessment or -- or learning 

opportunity there. I'm curious if the answer's different now, 

a few months later? You had mentioned that -- just now 

that recruiting and retention is a good sign that people are 

emboldened by the mission. We're also coming in -- out of 

one of the worst economies since 1929. So perhaps that is 

also playing a role in -- in people re-enlisting. So I'm 

curious to -- to hear, you know, once you're kind of 

climbing out of this -- this unprecedented year of the 

Guard, what is your deeper look at the costs bared by your 

people and what you intend to do as you look to -- to fulfill 

a -- a -- a deeper mission set in the future?
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General Daniel R. Hokanson So, Alex, thanks for that question. And when we look 

broadly across the organization -- of course, you mentioned 

recruiting and retention. That's one of the key indicators. 

But for us also, it's -- it's really looking at a lot of the --

every time I visit a state, I -- I usually meet with the senior 

leaders to have a conversation about them and what they 

have learned throughout their career, and then I also meet 

with the recruiters to hear what they're hearing from the 

young men and women that are coming into the 

organization. So it -- it kind of gives me a -- a broad picture 

of what the system has produced and what the system is 

bringing in and the motivations behind that.

And one interesting thing that we see is when we look at 

folks, why they come in, number one, it's a sense to serve. 

Many come in for educational benefits and for the training. 

And what we're also finding is some -- what we would 

traditionally consider older adults in their late 20s, early 

30s that are now coming into the National Guard because 

they want to make a difference. And so we've noticed that 

the demographic has shifted slightly, but not significantly. 

But for us, we need to make sure that we -- we very much 

stay in tune with that.

And the other thing is going back -- and you highlighted a 

couple of things when you look at the economy over the 

past year as well -- is making sure that we're wellconnected with our states to understand those environments 

where the economy may be really starting to pick up again, 

and allow the Guardsmen that need to get back to their -- to 

their civilian careers, and sometimes those civilian careers 

will ask more of them than they had in the past as they --

they get up and -- they get up to speed again. So we have to 

really work very closely with the adjutants general so that 

we can meet their requirements and do everything we can 

to reduce the burden on our Guardsmen to do those mission 

sets that are critical to our nation and/or our community, 

but then, and sometimes get away from some of those 
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mission sets so that we reduce the burden on our personnel, 

and it's -- it's an ongoing thing that we really have to 

monitor very closely every single day. And really, it goes 

down to our leaders at the lowest level having that level of 

communication with our Guardsmen so they understand, 

you know, the pressures that they feel between their 

civilian career, their military career and their family.

And one thing otherwise that I -- I mentioned early in my 

opening statements is -- is the -- how much I support, 

really, TRICARE Reserve Select for all of our 

servicemembers. And this is one of those things that we did 

learn over the past year, is when you go from a -- a civilian 

career and you get on orders for more than 31 days, you go 

to TRICARE healthcare. But then, in many cases, you may 

have to switch providers. And if we had TRICARE 

Reserve Select for all of our servicemembers all the time, 

they'd be able to maintain that continuity of care, and also, 

the employers and the families would know that if they're 

injured either on or off duty, that they're going to be taken 

care of so they can return to duty, return to work and also, 

be there to help provide for their families.

Tracy O’Grady-Walsh (Moderator) In the room? Luis

Reporter, Luis Martinez Hi, Sir. Luis Martinez with ABC News. 

If I could ask you two questions about, first, about January 

6th and the reaction to that. You mentioned the $521 

million gap right now. Have you received assurances from 

members of the Hill that you will be receiving that 

compensation either this fiscal year, or if not, in the -- in 

the next fiscal year? And what is the difference if you get it 

now, as opposed to getting it next? And then I have a -- a 

different question.

General Daniel R. Hokanson So we were working very closely with our congressional 

representatives, and I know, as the Department of Defense 
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is, as well. And it's critical for us to get it this year because 

of the funding will be required for us to complete not only 

our drills, but all operations and training we have scheduled 

in this fiscal year.

Reporter, Luis Martinez And then the response -- five months long, I think it was. A 

lot of coordination. I think this is probably the largest 

collective National Guard response that we've seen in the 

continental United States when you have literally all of the

states contributing. What were some of the lessons learned 

in -- from that response in how you prepare for something 

like that in the future? And also, how do you -- how do you 

bridge this disconnect that there seems to be between the 

popular perception of what -- of how the National Guard 

can be used as a quick response force versus, you know, 

how it actually operates and that -- how the interpretation is 

that, yes, the response here was actually quick but very 

different.

General Daniel R. Hokanson Luis, thank you. So if you go back to the -- to the initial 

response itself and the things that we learned, what we 

found is the -- the investment that our nation has made, 

really, since 9/11 in the National Guard in terms are 

manning, training and equipping, it has produced a force 

that can literally do just about anything we're asked to do. 

And our ability to move 26,000 Guardsmen from, really, 

every single state, territory, to include Alaska and Guam, 

came here, as well. Our capability there is number one, 

because we had Air National Guard organic assets to help 

move. But also, our personnel are used to -- to mobilize and 

deploying, and also, the support we got across the 54 as 

result of January 6th. Every single state, as I mentioned, all 

three territories and D.C. provided personnel to meet every 

single requirement that we were given.

So that's one thing that we learned -- the investment that 

our nation has made really made that possible, and the 

training and -- and professionalism of our force. When you 
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look at the -- the responsiveness of the National Guard --

and what we try and tell folks is, you know, our motto is 

"Always Ready, Always There.” But the majority of our 

personnel have civilian jobs, and so for them to leave their 

civilian job and return to their armory, get their equipment, 

get a briefing and sometimes last-minute training on what 

specifically they'll be asked to do -- we really look at that 

as a 24-hour timeframe. We're not a SWAT team. We're 

not law enforcement. We're soldiers and airmen trained --

manned, trained and equipped to fight our nation's wars. 

But the leadership and the training that we get, also, as I 

mentioned earlier, allow us to do just about anything our 

communities ask. But we can't get into the -- the perception 

that we're immediate response because we're just not 

resourced to do that, and so we really rely, obviously, on --

on local law enforcement, and if it exceeds their capability, 

in a timely manner, normally 24 hours, is when we can start 

marshaling our organization to help support.

Reporter, Luis Martinez OK, just to follow up -- did it make sense to establish 

national response forces that could tighten up that 

timeframe?

General Daniel R. Hokanson So when I look at that, Luis, many of these, I think, are 

actually a law enforcement mission set, and therefore, I 

think it's most appropriate to have law enforcement do that. 

When you look specifically at the National Guard, our fulltime forces are really there to -- to really train and 

administer our organizations so they're ready to do their 

war-fighting mission. They're not specifically designed for 

anything like that. Thank you.

Tracy O’Grady-Walsh (Moderator) All right. Any last questions? Thank you very much. Have 

a great afternoon, and thank you to everybody on the 

phone, as well. Have a good day.
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