Vermont National Guard

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.

Retired Sgt. 1st Class Tom Snipp first enlisted in 1991, serving in the U.S. Coast Guard before joining the Army National Guard in 1999. Snipp deployed to Kuwait in 2005 and then Afghanistan in 2010, and says it was important to have a strong support system back home.

For the past two-and-a-half years, the Massachusetts Army National Guard and local opponents have been locked in battle over whether a machine gun range should be built at Joint Base Cape Cod. We traveled with the Guard to their training range in Vermont to see and hear what the future may bring to the Cape.

Few people outside of the military will sleep in an army barracks, pass through machine gun training, or stand within feet of one of the military's deadliest weapons as it's fired. In this audio journal, CAI reporter Eve Zuckoff shares the experience of traveling north to Camp Ethan Allen, in Jericho, Vermont, to get a closer look at the people, drills, and weaponry that could come to a proposed machine gun range on Joint Base Cape Cod.

Take a photo tour of the machine gun range at Camp Ethan Allen, in Jericho, Vermont, where Massachusetts Army National Guard currently go to train on the big .50 caliber machine gun. The Guard wants to build a comparable range on Cape Cod.

This hour, host Connor Cyrus speaks with author and journalist Jasper Craven about his new book Our Veterans.

An environmental advocacy group decided to test the Winooski River for PFAS chemicals, and says it found elevated levels of the cancer-causing chemicals in a popular fishing hole and reservoir. But state environmental officials take issue with those results.

A conversation with a veteran who served in the National Guard under "don't ask, don't tell."

A new report details systemic problems within the Vermont National Guard. Plus, SunCommon requires vaccines, the drought remains, and the future of trees.

A pervasive “good old boys” network, mismanagement of reports of sexual assaults, equal opportunity programs not in compliance with federal policies: those are some of the significant issues found in an investigation of the Vermont National Guard, which was released this week.