LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The Kentucky National Guard opened a new headquarters in Frankfort Tuesday.
State leaders cut the ribbon on the new Joint Force Headquarters building at the Boone National Guard Center.
The new 67,000-square-foot headquarters will house the command teams for both the Army and Air National Guard within the state, which have never been under one roof.
The National Guard said the move will improve responses to emergencies and training.
“Whether it’s us responding to a domestic operations type of scenario, a weather-related incident, a civil-disturbance-type of operation, or we are sending some of our service members overseas, this enables us to be a more efficient organization,” Maj. Gen. Haldane Lamberton, Adjutant General for the Kentucky National Guard, said in a news release.
The state-of-the-art facility cost $15.9 million, mostly paid for with federal money. The project has been 20 years in the making.
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