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  • 148th Fighter Wing hosts Advanced EOD Conventional Course at Camp Ripley

    CAMP RIPLEY, Minn. -- Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians from the U.S. Air Force and Air National Guard gathered at Camp Ripley Training Center, Minnesota for a home-grown training event designed to test and validate conventional ordnance techniques while developing personal skills and

  • Texas Air Guard Members Fly at Falcon Leap 2022

    EINDHOVEN, Netherlands – Airmen from the 136th Airlift Wing attended the Falcon Leap Exercise on Eindhoven Military Air Base Sept. 12-17, commemorating the allies’ joint World War II Operation Market Garden.Polish, Romanian, Dutch, British and Italian Air force aircraft participated in the exercise.

  • Oregon National Guard Supports Wildland Firefighting

    JOSEPH, Ore. - Oregon National Guard members assisted firefighters battling the Double Creek Fire by staffing road closure points around the fire’s perimeter.The fire in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest in northeast Oregon was started by a lightning strike and has burned 157,000 acres. It is

  • Hancock Field Fallen Defenders Ruck March

    SYRACUSE, NY – 174th Attack Wing members came together for the fifth annual Fallen Defenders Ruck March Aug 17 at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base. The ruck march was created to honor the Security Forces members who have lost their lives in combat.The march took place for a period of 24-hours

  • 174th Attack Wing Hosts First Civil Air Patrol Encampment since COVID-19

    Hancock Air National Guard Base, NY -- The New York National Guard’s 174th Attack Wing hosted 118 cadets of the Civil Air Patrol’s New York Wing for their annual encampment at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base July 24-31.The 2020 and 2021 encampments were canceled due to the COVID-19

  • CMSAF announces ‘Purple Book,’ talks people, readiness, culture at AFA

    NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. (AFNS) -- Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force JoAnne S. Bass announced the release of the new Purple Book, while illuminating people, readiness, and culture at the Air and Space Forces Association’s Air, Space and Cyber Conference Sept. 20.Bass, who represents the highest

  • 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