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  • AFRL works to advance C2 capabilities for NYANG

    Rome, NY (AFRL) -- Leaders from the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, Information Directorate in Rome, New York, and the 174th Attack Wing, or ATKW, of the New York Air National Guard, or NYANG, at Hancock Field in Syracuse, New York, are working to leverage opportunities that advance Air

  • AFGSC names 2023 Global Strike Challenge winners

    Air Force Global Strike Command announced the winners of Global Strike Challenge 2023 at the multi-month competition’s capstone event Nov. 8.Global Strike Challenge is the world's premier bomber and intercontinental ballistic missile operations and maintenance, helicopter operations and security

  • STARBASE: Enriching Lives Through STEM

    LOS ALAMITOS, Calif. – A transformative journey unfolds for the young minds that venture through the doors of STARBASE. From building award-winning rockets to programming their very own robotic rovers, youth are exposed to an array of curricula with endless science, technology, engineering and

  • 171st Volunteers to Assist National Guard Bureau With Regulation Validation

    Coraopolis, PA -- Two Airmen from the 171st Air Refueling Wing volunteered to help the National Guard Bureau validate and rewrite Air Force Instruction essential to the financial management career field.  When the National Guard Bureau sent out a request to the financial management community asking

  • Boss Lift Event Provides Maryland National Guard Employers with Insight

    MIDDLE RIVER, Md. -- Members of the Maryland National Guard hosted the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) Bosslift event at Martin State Air National Guard Base and Blum Military Reservation on November 3, 2023, giving employers the opportunity to better understand what their employees

  • Veteran F-100 Crew Chief lives quiet life on Iowa farm after Vietnam

    Sioux Center, Iowa -- The tranquil setting of John De Groot’s family farm in Iowa’s far northwest corner is a lifetime away from the year he spent maintaining a F-100 fighter jet at Phu Cat Airbase during the Vietnam war.Since leaving the Air Force after his deployment over 50 years ago, De Groot

  • National Guard’s Heritage Honored at Storied Army Base

    ARLINGTON, Va. – In a hallowed corner of Patton Hall at Northern Virginia’s Joint Base Myer-Henderson Hall, a journey through the annals of American military history awaits. An officer’s saber from the late 19th century, a World War I-era combat helmet, and a flag that bore witness to the attack on