Environmental Resources Management
The Environmental Resources Management office supports readiness and resiliency for the Utah National Guard through proactive environmental stewardship and compliance with applicable environmental laws, regulations and executive orders.
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State Partnership Program
The State Partnership Program links the National Guard of each U.S. state, territory, and the District of Columbia with partner nations worldwide, fostering mutually beneficial relationships. The Utah National Guard has partnered with Morocco to promote security cooperation, enhance military competencies, and build enduring international ties.
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Fort Douglas Museum
The Utah Military Museum at Historic Fort Douglas honors Utah’s military heritage through exhibits and education, preserving stories of service and sacrifice. We inspire future generations and serve the community by highlighting Fort Douglas’s pivotal role in U.S. military history.
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Utah Counterdrug
- Mission: Increase operational readiness by providing military unique capabilities in support of U.S. state and federal law enforcement and other agency partners to detect, monitor, and disrupt the trafficking of illicit drugs and chemicals used in the production of illicit drugs.
Utah Counterdrug
Program Overview: The Utah National Guard Counterdrug Program is comprised of four branches including Headquarters, Joint Language Training Center, State Plans, and Utah Translation and Analysis Center. Counterdrug service members have proficiency in more than 50 languages and support counterdrug operations world-wide. Counterdrug provides military unique capabilities to law enforcement and agency partners including intelligence analysis, crime analysis, translation and transcription, document and media exploitation, Drug Demand Reduction Outreach, and reconnaissance and observation. The Counterdrug Program employs Army and Air Force service members from nearly every unit in the Utah National Guard.
- Counterdrug Coordinator
Col. Scott Chalmers
[email protected]
801-432-4150 - Counterdrug Senior Listed Advisor
Command Sgt. Maj. Edmundo Garcia
[email protected]
801-432-4497 - Address
12953 South Minuteman Dr.
Draper, Utah 84020
Joining the Counterdrug Team:
The Utah National Guard Counterdrug Program is open to service members and civilians with skills or credentialed training in military intelligence, foreign language proficiency, human resources, logistics, information systems and technologies, and finance.
Preference will be given to service members with the following Military Occupational Specialty or Air Force Specialty:
Army MOS
Air Force AFSC
The Utah National Guard Counterdrug Program offers both part-time and full-time positions. Full-time career National Guard service members are placed on an active-duty status under Title 32 orders and receive all benefits of an active-duty service member including but not limited to full pay based on rank, basic allowance for housing, basic allowance for subsistence, foreign language proficiency bonus pay, full health care benefits (TRICARE) coverage at little or no cost, and retirement benefits.
To inquiry about current vacancies, please reach out to [email protected]. For service members with Utah National Guard CAC cards, visit the following link Utah National Guard Full-Time Positions.
West Traverse Sentinel Landscape
The West Traverse Sentinel Landscape establishes mutual goals and trusted relationships with surrounding communities to prudently balance the military training needs of Camp Williams with conservation and compatible economic interests within the designated sentinel landscape area.
Sentinel landscapes are partnerships. The West Traverse Sentinel Landscape committee steers initiatives that are achieved through a coalition of federal agencies, state and municipal governments, non-governmental organizations, and landowners.
Freedom Academy
The 63rd annual Freedom Academy is July 13-18, 2025.
The Utah National Guard is pleased to announce the 63rd annual Freedom Academy, to be held at Camp W.G. Williams from July 13-18, 2025. We invite all student body officers as well as other student leaders within schools and communities to attend.
Freedom Academy costs nothing to the student or school other than transportation to and from Camp Williams. Freedom Academy covers all expenses during their stay.
A complete information packet will be mailed to the delegate once their name(s) are received. If your delegate is unknown, indicate this by requesting a space be reserved for your school. Please email us at the email below with any questions.
If you have any questions, please contact the director, Maj. Tambra West, using the information below.
- Email
- Phone385-321-1616
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What is Freedom Academy?
How it Works
Freedom Academy is open to students between their junior and senior years of high school. All students with demonstrated leadership potential are encouraged to apply, though participation is limited to one or two students per school.
"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States when men and women were free."
— Ronald Reagan
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Freedom Academy is a FREE, six-day leadership training event. Each day focuses on different themes and activities, giving students a profound sense of our nation’s freedoms and rights.
Office of the Inspector General
The Inspector General is a personal staff officer of the adjutant general, providing the adjutant general with a sounding board for sensitive issues. The Inspector General acts as the eyes, ears, voice, and conscience of the adjutant general. Inspector Generals are impartial honest brokers and consummate fact finders who don’t take sides.
For more details on what IGs do and don’t do, please visit:
- Address
12953 South Minuteman Drive
Draper, Utah 84020 - Phone
801-432-4379
Utah National Guard Office of the Inspector General
- Address
765 North 2200 West
Salt Lake City, Utah 84116 - Phone801-878-5324
Attention: Complaints Resolution
State Operations
The State Operations deputy director of the Utah National Guard (UTNG), along with the commanders of the Utah Army and Air national guard, provides integral support for The Adjutant General. The State Operations team (also known as the State Military Department or SMD) is responsible for oversight of all state-funded programs. This team supports daily operations across the state of Utah while ensuring that the Utah National Guard’s state budget aligns with the Governor and Utah Adjutant General’s top priorities.
FY 26 Utah National Guard State Strategic Plan
- Mr. Dan Schoenfeld
801-432-4445
Monday - Thursday
8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.