By Chief Warrant Officer 2 Rick de la Torre
Photos by Staff Sgt. (CA) Richard Bergquist
In its continuing search for new opportunities to provide quality training and assistance to the California National Guard, the California State Military Reserve is starting conversations with various law enforcement entities across Southern California. [...]
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The CSMR is Reaching Out to Local Age...
By Chief Warrant Officer 2 Rick de la Torre
Photos by Staff Sgt. (CA) Richard Bergquist
In its continuing search for new opportunities to provide quality training and assistance to the California National Guard, the California State Military Reserve is starting conversations with various law enforcement entities across Southern California. [...]
Stress. Don’t let it stress you...
Dr. William Goldsmith, a colonel in the California State Military Reserve, is not only a Soldier and a physician but also a bit of a poet. This is his take on the plague of modern society: worries, pressures, deadlines, fears … in a word—stress.
STRESS
A definition, friends, of stress; your own reaction to a mess
Stresses may be large [...]
You’re ready; but are you fit e...
How many situps can you do?
By Staff Sgt. (CA) Jim Tortolano
First of two parts
One of the missions of the California State Military Reserve to is augment and help train the California National Guard. Are you physically fit enough to take on those tasks?
Although the CSMR is open to Soldiers from 18 on up into their 60s, the nature of a state [...]
Call for officers and warrants
State Headquarters has announced plans for the next California State Military Reserve Officer Candidate School class that will begin in 2013 and graduate in 2014.
The Officer Candidate/Warrant Officer Candidate School Selection Board will be convened in August in Sacramento to select the class participants. There are 60 school billets availab [...]
Help make the news with the PAO
By Staff Sgt. (CA) Jim Tortolano
PAO section leaders Capt. Ronald Alexander and Lt. Col. James Adair. Adair is on a leave of absence.
How many times have you listened to people say “I never heard of the CSMR” or the state defense force concept?
It’s the job of public affairs sections to not only raise the public awareness of the California St [...]
National Guard 2013 video includes CS...
The California National Guard 2013 Departmental Video includes activities of the CSMR. To view the video, follow these steps.
1st - http://www.calguard.ca.gov/publicaffairs/Pages/default.aspx
2nd – click on the YOUTUBE icon
3rd – view 2013 California National Guard Departmental Video which includes, and gives a lead role to, the [...]
Getting the FYI on LNO
Maj. Gen. David S. Baldwin
What is an LNO?
That’s the question that was answered in full at a recent special training session for Soldiers to learn about the need and value of the Army liaison officer/noncommissioned officer, or LNO.
Some 20 California State Military Reserve personnel were joined by a handful of California Army National Guard [...]
Medical News You Can Use: Oh, My Achi...
But mankind is born for (back) trouble as surely as sparks fly upward. - Job 5:7
Apologies to Job, but it’s a pertinent quote.
The ancient ancestors from which we evolved moved on all fours. About 1.8 million years ago, Java Man, or Pithecanthropus erectus, his wife’s pet name for him, began to walk upright. Why? We don’t know. Mayb [...]
The California State Military Reserve is the Golden State’s official state defense force. It is a part of the California Military Department, along the state’s National Guard and Air National Guard. Its mission is to augment the National Guard in a variety of support roles, and to specialize in homeland defense and emergency management missions.
