Seward National Guard Building

This is the way the Seward National Guard Building looked this afternoon as we drove past on our way down to  Pac n Sav to buy groceries. A press conference was held in Seward recently where it was announced that some changes would be taking place. Beginning next month, the armory, which has served as the Nebraska Army National Guards primary training center for the Seward-based Army Guard Soldiers since 1956, will transition from a readiness center to the home of the Nebraska  National Guards new State Museum. The transition is expected to take several years. The Guards current museum has been a historic building which has been a part of the State Fair Grounds in Lincoln. Since the State Fair moved to Grand Island and the Innovative Campus of the University is being constructed on the site, it is timely to make the move. It also fits well with Seward being the State's Fourth of July City. Members of the Guards Detachment 2, 165th Quartermaster, now located in Seward, will be moving to their new facility at the Mead Training Site in March. This move will allow the unit's Soldiers, who are responsible for rigging parachutes for personnel and cargo drops, to be located much closer to the current "drop" zones near the Mead Training Site.