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1916 Mexican Border Conflict:
President Woodrow Wilson called up the entire National Guard to confront a build-up of Mexican troops at the U.S. border following an attack by Pancho Villa, a Mexican bandit/revolutionary. Though 112,000 Guardsmen were readied for battle, the U.S. and Mexican governments backed away from all-out combat.
National Guard air units were called up during the Mexican Border conflict. Captain Raynall Bolling, after whom Bolling Air Force Base is named, was commander of the first Guard aviation unit, the 1st Aero Company from New York. The first Aero Company did not deploy to Mexico, but instead trained at Mineola, New York. |