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  • Volk Field Hosts National Competition

    Volk Field, WI -- The U.S. Air Force’s eight most accomplished munitions teams from around the world converged here late last month for the third annual Air Force Combat Operations Competition (AFCOCOMP).Participants were evaluated for their speed and technique in assembling bombs, setting up and

  • NY 106th Rescue Wing Airmen Played Role in Thai Cave Rescue

    NEW YORK – Wearing shorts and a T-shirt, with stubble on his chin, Tech. Sgt. Jamie Brisbin, a pararescueman now assigned to the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing, remembers arriving in Okinawa, Japan, and boarding a waiting C-130 to head to a flooded cave in Thailand June 27, 2018.As

  • 148th Fighter Wing partners with ANG Production Assessment Team

    DULUTH, Minn. -- An Air National Guard Production Assessment Team (PAT) consisting of cross-functional experts from maintenance and logistics readiness conducted a thorough assessment of F-16 fleet readiness at the 148th Fighter Wing, Duluth, Minn., from September 12-15, 2022.  The assessment was

  • Arizona Air National Guard hosts Victim Advocate refresher training

    MORRIS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ariz. -- The Arizona Air National Guard hosted a 2-Day Victim Advocate (VA) refresher training at Morris Air National Guard Base here 19 and 20 September. The 162nd Wing, in collaboration with the 161st Air Refueling Wing, brought the training this year to Pima

  • Alaska Guard Assists with Flood Recovery in Western Alaska

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – More than 100 members of Joint Task Force Alaska deployed to the hub communities of Bethel and Nome Sept. 21 to support flood recovery efforts across Western Alaska in the wake of Typhoon Merbok.The task force includes members of the Alaska Air and Army

  • National Guard Attack Squadron Earns Prestigious Award

    NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. – The North Dakota Air National Guard's 178th Attack Squadron was presented with the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies' General Atomics Remotely Piloted Aircraft Trophy for 2021 at the 2022 Air and Space Forces Association's Air, Space and Cyber Conference this week.The

  • 624 RSG thanks civilian supervisors for support of Pacific Warriors

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Once a month, when Master Sgt. Miguel Manibusan closes out a UTA weekend with the 44th Aerial Port Squadron on a Sunday afternoon, he heads home, hangs up his OCPs, and trades them in for a different uniform: black pants and a black polo; the uniform he

  • ANG Deputy Director visits 125th Fighter Wing

    JACKSONVILLE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Fla. – 125th Fighter Wing senior officials welcomed the Deputy Director of the Air National Guard, Maj. Gen. Duke Pirak during a visit to the wing Sept. 13, 2022.During the visit, Pirak received a mission brief and status update on the long-awaited F-35

  • New York National Guard Joins South African Air Show

    PRETORIA, South Africa – Sixty New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen and five aircraft are participating in Africa’s biggest air show Sept. 21-25.The Guard is exhibiting two C-17 Globemaster III transports, an HC-130J Combat King II search and rescue aircraft, an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter and