Arkansas Army National Guard

Arkansas Army National Guard
Arkansas STARC Shoulder Sleeve insignia
Active	1804–present
Country	United States
Allegiance	United States  Arkansas
Branch	United States Army Army National Guard
Type	ARNG Headquarters Command
Part of	Arkansas National Guard
Garrison/HQ	Camp Joseph T. Robinson North Little Rock, Arkansas
Motto(s)	"Arkansas First!"
Commanders
Civilian leadership	President Donald J. Trump (Commander-in-Chief) John M. McHugh (Secretary of the Army) Governor Asa Hutchinson (Governor of the State of Arkansas)
State military leadership	Major General Mark H. Berry (ANG) (Adjutant General of Arkansas)

The Arkansas Army National Guard is a component of the Arkansas National Guard and the United States National Guard. National coordination of various state National Guard units are maintained through the National Guard Bureau.

Arkansas Army National Guard units are trained and equipped as part of the United States Army. The same ranks and insignia are used and National Guardsmen are eligible to receive all United States military awards. The Arkansas National Guard also bestows a number of state awards for local services rendered in or to the state of Arkansas.

The Arkansas Army National Guard is composed of approximately 8,000 soldiers, and maintains 77 armories in 77 communities. The Arkansas Army National Guard also operates two major training facilities, Chaffee Maneuver Training Center (formerly Fort Chaffee), located near Fort Smith, Arkansas and Robinson Maneuver Training Center (formerly Camp Joseph T. Robinson) located in North Little Rock, Arkansas.

National Guard units can be mobilized at any time by presidential order to supplement regular armed forces, and upon declaration of a state of emergency by the governor of the state in which they serve. Unlike Army Reserve members, National Guard members cannot be mobilized individually (except through voluntary transfers and Temporary DutY Assignments TDY), but only as part of their respective units.

For much of the final decades of the 20th century, National Guard personnel typically served "One weekend a month, two weeks a year", with a portion working for the Guard in a full-time capacity. The current forces formation plans of the US Army call for the typical National Guard unit (or National Guardsman) to serve one year of active duty for every six years of service. More specifically, current Department of Defense policy is that individual Guardsman will be given 24 months between deployments of no more than 12 months each.