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  • Passing the torch: Continuing a family legacy of service

    After nearly 30 years of service, a 170th Air National Guard Airman’s final act as an officer was to commission her son, whose first act as an officer was to formalize his mother’s retirement.Lt. Col. Jennifer Leavitt, who started as an active duty enlisted Airman, concluded her career as her oldest

  • Brazilian Air Force Visits Hancock Field

    The 174th Attack Wing hosted a delegation of eight officer and enlisted leaders from the Brazilian Air Force’s Aerospace Operations Command on June 6 at Hancock Field Air National Guard base.

  • A Refugee’s Journey to the Tennessee Air National Guard

    Senior Airman John Gebremariam, a services specialist with the 118th Force Support Squadron in Nashville, Tennessee, is living a life that he couldn’t imagine as a young man. Going to school to become an aviation mechanic, and serving in the Air National Guard.Born in Eritrea, he fled as a refugee

  • 130th Airlift Wing Exercises Combat Power in Newest C-130J

    Sixty-three Airmen and two C-130J-30s Super Hercules from the 130th Airlift Wing participated in Agile Rage 2022 June 6-19 in the first Air National Guard Readiness Exercise Program focused on decentralized command and control and distributed military operations.The Alpena Combat Readiness Training

  • AESA Radar Launches F-16 Into Next Generation of Air Power

    More than 70 F-16 Fighting Falcons across 12 Air National Guard units are now flying with the new active electronically scanned array, (AESA) radar that will allow pilots to detect, target, identify, and engage across a spectrum of threats at longer ranges and react with greater precision.The AESA

  • National Guard Coordinates Transport of German Satellite

    A rocket carrier is barely recognizable from a distance on a typically foggy June morning at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Its payload, the German Ministry of Defense’s SARah satellite, was delivered thanks to Herculean cross-country coordination by National Guard Soldiers and Airmen. As

  • New Mexico National Guard cyber teams train with Mescalero Apache Telecom

    New Mexico National Guard Airmen and Soldiers teamed up with the Mescalero Apache Telecom Inc (MATI) for training June 13- 16, 2022 as part of the Department of Defense Innovative Readiness Training program that aims to integrate Active, Guard and Reserve service members to train and serve American