Vermont National Guard

The Guard’s deployment, now surpassing 100 days, is the first combat mission of its kind in a decade. And families don’t know when their service members will return home.

Adjutant General Henry "Hank" Harder Jr. takes command of the Guard amid multiple international deployments.

The legislation would require Republican Gov. Phil Scott to vet the legality of federal mobilization orders, and to refuse any deployments that didn’t meet constitutional muster. But the governor, and many lawmakers, say the bill itself is illegal.

It’s the second time the Vermont Air National Guard and its F-35 fighter jets have been deployed by the federal government in the span of a few months.

U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Hank Harder inherits leadership of a 3,000-member Army National Guard and 1,000-member Air National Guard, the latter of which recently participated in a federal mission that resulted in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

The Pentagon asked Vermont's Republican governor to send a "few dozen" soldiers to assist in President Donald Trump's controversial crime crackdown, according to Scott's chief of staff.

Programs to support Vermont veterans have lost staff members due to federal funding cuts this summer.

The U.S. Department of Defense was seeking 12 Guard members to assist with administrative, logistical and clerical duties inside federal immigration detention facilities, according to a governor’s aide, who added that the governor’s denial was “divorced” from politics.

Republican Gov. Phil Scott’s nearly decade-old push to exempt military pensions from state income taxes hit a key milestone Tuesday when the Vermont House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved legislation that includes tax breaks for retired servicemembers.

Hundreds of gallons of firefighting foam were collected from the South Burlington facility in recent days. The foam could end up at a hazardous waste landfill.