Mentoring

Mentoring is a relationship in which knowledge and skills are shared between members in a way in which everyone benefits. Often a more senior person is mentoring a junior person, but mentorship can happen between any two individuals. Mentoring will help Airmen and Guardians discover their strengths by achieving their full potential through a structured, trusting mentoring relationship.

Find a mentor and become a mentor! It’s easy to do both by registering in MyVector. In 2021, we completely redesigned the Mentoring platform in MyVector based on your feedback. New features include:

Ability to self-identify as someone seeking a mentor or someone who wants to be a mentor
Track the status of their mentoring requests
Updated Resources page
Enhanced messaging capability that allows users to send messages to mentors
Additional search filters:
ethnicity, race, disability, Exceptional Family Members Program (EFMP), MAJCOM, organizations, and ranks
Ability for mentees to share documents with mentor
Sister Service mentor/mentee enabled capability
CFM ability to assign mentors to mentees (Spring 2022)

Log into MyVector, check out the new capabilities, and find your mentor today at https://myvector.us.af.mil!

Arkansas Guardsmen Support Local Authorities After Tornadoes

Arkansas National Guard Public Affairs Office

Video by 1st Sgt. Jim Heuston

March 16, 2025 | 0:59

CAMP JOSEPH T. ROBINSON, NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders mobilized to state active duty 70 Arkansas National Guardsmen to staff 13 severe weather response teams to assist local authorities in Sharp and Jackson counties with traffic control and security operations.

Teams will began assisting local authorities this evening on highways and intersections in the areas affected by Friday night’s severe weather.

Each team consists of five Guardsmen, two Humvees, plus communications equipment. Teams will assist in controlling access to areas to enable first responders to conduct emergency response operations.

The 39th Infantry Brigade Combat Team will provide six teams Cave City.

The 87th Troop Command will provide two teams to Cave City and another 5 teams to Jackson county.

Additionally, ten Guardsmen have been ordered to state active duty to provide command and control and liaison duties. Six of the 10 will help staff the Joint Operations Center around the clock. The remaining Guardsmen will provide around-the-clock support to provide command and control to their respective tasked units.

The Arkansas National Guard assumes support roles to augment civil authorities, where needed and directed by the Governor, to help in a crisis.

(Arkansas Army National Guard video by 1st Sgt. Jim Heuston, Cadet Alex Chrisco, and Sgt. Blake Sullivan) More

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