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  • Staff Sgt. Scott Geisser, the Air National Guard's Noncommissioned Officer of the Year, and his finance, Tara, visit the Tomb of the Unknowns at Arlington National Cemetery June 16 during the Air Guard's Outstanding Airmen of the Year week. As a combat controller preparing to deploy overseas, Geisser was allowed to go unshaven and in a business suit during the week's events June 15-20 in Washington. (Photo by Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith, National Guard Bureau)

    Bearded Airman among Air Guard's best

    By the looks of him, Staff Sgt. Scott Geisser seemed anything but your average "clean-cut" Airman here last week with his thick brown beard and mustache. Even so, the Air National Guard's top leaders praised him as one of the six Outstanding Airmen of the Year (OAY) for 2008. "I think somebody said that I looked like the Taliban," said Geisser,

  • Guard ratchets up Missouri mission; tackles floods in five states

    Missouri was the latest Midwest state to see increasing numbers of National Guard Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen on duty in the face of the region's worst flooding in 15 years. "Our priority is to protect the lives of Missouri's residents and their property," Missouri Gov. Matt Blunt said during a visit to flood-affected areas with National Guard
  • Maj. Mark Jeffries, Mission Systems Officer in the 130th Airlift Wing out of Clarksburg, W. Va., packs up after a flood damage assessment in Indiana June 11. Jeffries was one of several pilots to fly over Indiana in the Reconnaissance Cargo - 26B (RC-26B), providing live footage of the area to the Indiana National Guard.

    Guard plane photographs flood damage

    With the help of an advanced counterdrug aircraft, the Indiana National Guard has received live footage of flood damage throughout the state to assist with missions and help local governments plan to repair the damage. "It can show officials where roads are washed out and what damage there is to infrastructure," Maj. Mark Jeffries, the missions

  • Nevadan takes to the sky as first Guard Thunderbird pilot

    Nevada National Guard pilot Maj. Derek Routt has distinguished himself throughout his Air Force career by emphasizing basic character traits such as integrity and work ethic. They promise to be the same attributes Routt will uphold this fall when he becomes the first National Guard pilot to join the U.S. Air Force's Air Demonstration Squadron, the
  • A pararescueman from the 131st Rescue Squadron hoists the patient from the APC Peru cargo container ship in to the hovering HH-60G Pave Hawk June 18, 2008. The 129th was credited with its 559th save. (Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Brock Woodward)

    Airmen transport medevac patient to new heliport

    Air National Guardsmen from the 129th Rescue Wing performed a medical evacuation June 18 for a crewmember experiencing a medical emergency aboard the cargo vessel APC Peru. Responding to a call from the Coast Guard District 11 Alameda, two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters and two MC-130P Combat Shadow aerial refueling tankers met the vessel
  • U.S. Air Force Master Sergeant Wayne D. Kettelhut, 148th Fighter Wing Explosive Ordinance (EOD) Specialist, was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor at an awards ceremony in Duluth, Minn. on June 15, 2008. The award was presented by Major General (retired) Harry J. Sieben (left), Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army and Lt Col (retired) Gary Hetrick, US Army who served with MSgt Kettelhut in Iraq during the time he earned his Bronze Star with Valor. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Brett R. Ewald) (Released)

    Bronze Star with Valor awarded to 148th Fighter Wing EOD member

    Master Sergeant Wayne D. Kettelhut, 148th Fighter Wing Explosive Ordinance (EOD) Specialist, was awarded the Bronze Star Medal with Valor at an awards ceremony in Duluth, Minn. on June 15, 2008. The Bronze Star is awarded for bravery, heroism or meritorious service while engaged in action against an enemy of the United States or while engaged in
  • Mission system operator Lt Col Tim Howell from the 186th Air Refueling Wing, Meridian, MS operates a console aboard an RC-26 aircraft specifically designed for viewing and transmitting high quality video and still imagery to military and civilian Operations Centers in real-time. This capability gives military commanders and civilian first responders a bird's eye view of significant events as they happen. Working with several state agencies along with the Wisconsin Air National Guard, the Mississippi Air National Guard RC-26 demonstrated the benefits of this new capability during an initial flood assessment mission in southern Wisconsin on June 10th, 2008. The crew of this RC-26 flew above the flood stricken region transmitting real-time imagery to the Wisconsin Joint Operations Center (JOC) and the Wisconsin Emergency Operations Center (WEOC) in addition to other agencies. This imagery was used to asses the integrity of several area Dams in addition to flood damage assessment in the hardest hit regions of the southern half of the state.

    Wisconsin National Guard provides real-time video of flood damaged areas

    Flying at 8,000 feet above flood ravaged Wisconsin, members of the Wisconsin National Guard with assistance from Guard units in Arkansas and Mississippi provided emergency management officials with 'eyes in the sky' to help with disaster relief efforts. Recent heavy rains have left Wisconsin rivers and lakes swollen and in many cases the

  • National Guard in two states prepare for rising river waters

    More than 600 National Guard members in Illinois and Missouri will continue sandbagging operations along the Mississippi River today in an effort to thwart the floodwaters that are subsiding in Iowa. The Illinois and Missouri rivers flow into the Mississippi just north of St. Louis. Unlike 1993, flooding on those rivers is not as bad as it was

  • Guard's '08 Airmen of the Year announced, honored

    The Air National Guard identified its six Airmen of the Year (AOY) for 2008 following their arrival here June 15 for a week-long celebration and tribute to their achievements. This year's AOYs were chosen through a process of unit, state and national selection panels and included the ranks of senior airman through senior master sergeant. The 2008
  • An HH-60G Pave Hawk from the 129th Rescue Wing, Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif. lands at the new helipad at the San Jose Regional Medical Center on June 9, 2008. The pad has been constructed to withstand the weight of the Pave Hawk. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Andrew Hughan)

    Elevated heliport certified for use by the 129th Rescue Wing

    While patients, nurses, doctors and construction workers stared in awe, an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter from the 129th Rescue Wing landed at the Regional Medical Center of San Jose June 9. This Pave Hawk wasn't landing at the hospital for a rescue mission. It was the unit's maiden landing on a heliport that is the first in the Bay Area to be
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