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  • MAINEiacs Aim High During Arctic Challenge

    ØRLAND AIR BASE, Norway – The Maine Air National Guard’s 101st Air Refueling Wing, also known as the MAINEiacs, and 265th Combat Communication Squadron are participating in the Arctic Challenge Exercise 2023 across the Nordic region.The exercise, a multinational live-fly training event May 29

  • Malaysia, U.S. Strengthen Ties at Bersama Warrior Exercise

    KUANTAN, Malaysia - The ninth annual Bersama Warrior exercise began June 6 with an opening ceremony led by Malaysian Armed Forces leaders and U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Johan Deutscher, director of the Joint Staff for the Washington National Guard.Bersama Warrior is an annual joint, bilateral

  • 130th Airlift Wing Opens new Airman Readiness Center

    MCLAUGHLIN AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, WV -- A ribbon cutting ceremony for the new 130th Airlift Wing Airman Readiness Center (ARC) was held on June 3, 2023, at McLaughlin Air National Guard Base, W.Va.The ceremony marked the first time all of the wing's helping agencies were conveniently located in

  • Iowa ANG fire fighters hone fire and rescue skills

    Sioux City, Iowa -- Fire fighters from the Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing fire department trained on multiple fire and rescue techniques during their June training weekend.  The exercise had fire fighters training in a multi-story fire training tower on a variety of structural

  • Practice makes perfect: Airmen attend Airman Leadership School

    Mountain Home Air Force Base, ID — It’s common for people to be hired for the first time in their teenage years. For some it is working a counter at a cashier’s desk. For others, a tall chair overlooking a swimming pool. For less than 1% of the U.S. population, it is getting off a military bus and

  • Guard Leaders Welcome Ukraine Family Support Organizers

    ARLINGTON, Virginia – Caring for those affected by the Russian invasion of Ukraine took a personal turn for National Guardsmen at the Temple Army Readiness Center recently.Members of TAPS Ukraine, a non-governmental organization, and the parent organization’s founder, Bonnie Carroll, president of

  • SEA Whitehead Honors Families of the Fallen

    ARLINGTON, Va. – Senior Enlisted Advisor Tony Whitehead, SEA to the chief of the National Guard Bureau, honored surviving military families May 26-29 during a Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors event.“There are those [military members] that served our country, those that loved you, those that

  • Arctic Challenge 2023: U.S. joins coalition for largest Nordic exercise

    PIRKKALA AIR BASE, Finland – Arctic Challenge Exercise 2023, the premier Nordic large-force, live-fly field training exercise, focuses on advancing Arctic security initiatives and enhancing interoperability throughout the High North began today, continuing through June 9, throughout Finland, Norway,

  • 177th Fighter Wing Leads During Scruffy Devil Exercise in Alaska

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, AK -- In May, the 177th Civil Engineer Squadron led a Prime Base Engineer Emergency Force (BEEF) training week at Camp Mad Bull on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson (JBER), including civil engineers from the 108th Wing, 111th Attack Wing, and 176th Wing from the New

  • Local employers get up close with Pease air refueling mission

    PEASE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, NH -- Representatives from local employers had the opportunity to fly aboard 157th Air Refueling Wing KC-46A aircraft during an air refueling mission, May 24.Approximately 25 civilian employers participated in the incentive flight, commonly called a boss lift,