Official Biography - May 2003
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Our Duties and Responsibilities -- A Message from the Chief - May 2004
The events of the past week have clearly focused the world on the duties, honors and responsibilities of the American Armed Forces. I ask you to reflect upon the solemn obligations that each of us, as American Soldiers and Airmen, has to our states, our nation and to those with whom we serve...

Way Ahead - May 2004
It has been a year this May since LTG H Steven Blum announced how he planned to transform the National Guard into a more ready, reliable, essential and accessible force for defending this country at home and abroad...

Chief sets priorities for future of the National Guard - September 2003
The fall of the Soviet Union has truly created a unique world climate. No longer is the U.S. facing a well-recognized, clearly defined threat. To the contrary, the current global status places the U.S. in greater danger from smaller transnational asymmetric threats...
Source: The On Guard - /onguard/32/09/pg2.asp

One state at a time: Transforming the Guard into joint command - September 2003
The fall of the Soviet Union has truly created a unique world climate. No longer is the U.S. facing a well-recognized, clearly defined threat. To the contrary, the current global status places the U.S. in greater danger from smaller transnational asymmetric threats...
Source: The On Guard - /onguard/32/09/pg6.asp

Secretary of Defense endorses transformation - September 2003
The Secretary of Defense praised LTG H Steven Blum's efforts to transform the National Guard Bureau into a joint force headquarters and asked him to submit proposals for strengthening the National Guard's ties with the Department of Defense and the active services during the global war against terrorism...
Source: The On Guard - /onguard/32/09/pg15.asp

Peoples Chief - May 21, 2003
Take care of yourselves and your people. That is among the many messages that Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum has emphasized to military and civilian supervisors since becoming the 25th chief of the National Guard Bureau in April...

Guard Transformation - May 21, 2003
National Guard leaders from the 54 states and U.S. territories supported the chief of the National Guard Bureau’s historic initiative for transforming their organization into a force of modern Minutemen that is more responsive for the American people while meeting in Columbus, Ohio, on May 18...

National Guard Transforming - May 18, 2003
Adjutants general from the 54 states and U.S. territories accepted the chief of the National Guard Bureau’s concepts for transforming the National Guard into a force that is more responsive for the American people here on May 18...

Blum to Show the Way - May 2003
The Army National Guard two-star general who helped form the United States Northern Command, the new military organization responsible for homeland security, has become the 25th chief of the National Guard Bureau...
Source: The On Guard - /onguard/32/05/pg2.asp

From the Chief of the National Guard Bureau - August 2003 The following is a transcript of an interview with Lt. Gen. H Steven Blum with the Washington Post on June 23, 2003... Source: The On Guard - /onguard/32/08/pg2.asp

Chief, NGB remarks to the National Governors Association - 02/22/2004
The following speech and presentation were delivered by Lieutenant General H Steven Blum, CNGB to the National Governors Association on February 22, 2004...

National Guard Bureau Chief Briefing on the Transforming Roles of the National Guard - 5/16/2003
Well, good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.  This is another one in our series of briefings introducing some of our senior leaders.  Today our guest is Lieutenant General H. Steven Blum, the chief of the National Guard Bureau.  Lieutenant General Blum takes over this new assignment after serving as chief of staff, United States Northern Command...
Source: DefenseLink - http://www.dod.mil/transcripts/2003/tr20030516-0188.html