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  • Annual Northern Lightning Exercise Returns to Volk Field

    CAMP DOUGLAS, Wis. – Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center will host the annual Northern Lightning Counterland exercise Aug. 8-19, including almost 1,000 personnel from active-duty Air Force, National Guard, Navy and Marine Corps units.Northern Lightning is a tactical-level, joint training

  • Arctic Guardians contracting earns Mission Execution Team Award

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska -- The 176th Mission Support Group Contracting Office earned the National Guard Bureau’s Mission Execution Contracting Team Award.Efstathia Fragogiannis, NGB executive director of acquisitions, annually recognizes the contributions of the contracting and

  • 33rd FW departs for Wisconsin, Northern Lightning

    EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Florida -- Nomads with the 58th Fighter Squadron, 33rd Fighter Wing will visit Volk Field Air National Guard Base, Wisconsin, July 29-Aug. 26, to conduct training and participate in exercise Northern Lightning. Volk Field offers open airspace with optimal weather conditions for

  • Florida Guardsman Achieves First at Air Force Weapons School

    JACKSONVILLE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Fla. – Weapons Patch. A distinction earned only after graduating from the U.S. Air Force’s Weapons School, one of the most academically rigorous schoolhouses in the world teaching graduate-level courses in weapons and tactics employment.Tech. Sgt. Ryan Colon, a

  • Utah Guard's Homeland Response Force Demonstrates Readiness

    CAMP WILLIAMS, Utah – The Utah National Guard’s Region VIII Homeland Response Force is conducting its 2022 readiness validation exercise at Camp Williams, Utah Aug. 3-7.“This year’s evaluation exercise is particularly important. In light of the effects of COVID nationwide, it has been more than

  • Oklahoma Guard units conduct airborne operations with Nebraska, Indiana

    FORT CHAFFEE, Ark. —Tactical Air Control Party Specialists (TACPs) from the 146th Air Support Operations Squadron (ASOS), Will Rogers Air National Guard Base, Oklahoma City and jumpmasters with the 2nd Battalion 134th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Battalion Combat Team (IBCT), Nebraska, and a

  • Gunfighters innovate their way to excellence

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, Texas— In an unsuspecting building dubbed the ‘3D Printing Center of Excellence', machines are whirling, ideas are flying and the passion is evident.The 149th Fighter Wing, located at Joint Base San Antonio Lackland, Texas, was provided with multiple 3D printers for

  • NY Air Guardsmen Help Inspire Next Generation

    Cambria, NY- Five women assigned to the New York Air National Guard’s 107th Attack Wing spent July 14 speaking to western New York Girl Scouts about what the words “courage” and “strength” mean to them.The campers were attending Camp Windy Meadows in Cambria, New York, and the female Airmen from the

  • From Refugee to Lawyer

    SWANTON, OH -- U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Igor Petrovich is no stranger to adversity. Born and raised in Travnik, Bosnia in 1989, just two years before the Yugoslav Wars broke out in the region, he lived with his parents and grandparents in a traditional farming community.His family and heritage are

  • HEART 22 impactful first week

    Tegucigalpa, Honduras -- Thirty-two U.S. soldiers and airmen launched the inaugural U.S. Southern Command Health Engagements Assistance Response Team (HEART) 2022 operation in Tegucigalpa, Honduras July 18, 2022.The team arrived in the city three days prior to unpack supplies and meet the Honduran