Gov. Charlie Baker and Main Gen. Gary Keefe met on the State Home Tuesday to mark the 386th birthday of the Massachusetts Nationwide Guard and the Nationwide Guard service as a complete.
“On this date in 1636, the primary militia regiments in North America organized in Massachusetts,” the Nationwide Guard mentioned in a launch. “Primarily based upon an order of the Massachusetts Bay Colony’s Common Court docket, the colony’s militia was organized into three everlasting regiments to defend the colony higher.”
The 181st and 182nd Infantry, the one hundred and first Discipline Artillery and the one hundred and first Engineer Battalion of the Massachusetts Army Nationwide Guard collectively characterize the oldest navy models within the nation, based on the Guard.
“Dec. 13, 1636, thus marks the start of the organized militia, and the beginning of the Nationwide Guard’s oldest organized models is symbolic of the founding of all of the state, territory and District of Columbia militias that collectively make up right now’s Nationwide Guard,” the guard mentioned.
Brig. Gen. Ginger Gaglio, who instructions the Massachusetts Air Nationwide Guard, famous on twitter that “greater than 42K (Guard Troopers and Airmen) are on responsibility someplace proper now.”
