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  • 129th Holds Biggest Enlistment Ceremony for PJ Candidates in Years

    MOFFETT AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, CA. - Recruiters with the 129th Rescue Wing held an enlistment ceremony May 25, on the flight line to welcome the wing’s five newest pararescue trainees. Tobin Martens, Jack Boyes, Jennings Undlin, William Haug and Nicholas Win were selected from a group of 17

  • Alaska National Guard rescues stranded mountaineers

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Alaska Air and Army National Guardsmen rescued 12 stranded mountaineers on Klutlan Glacier southeast of Mt. Bona in Wrangell-St Elias National Park June 1.The rescue response began at 7:55 a.m. May 29 when the National Park Service asked the Alaska Rescue

  • 142nd Civil Engineers get valuable training in Hawaii

    OAHU, Hawaii – The 142nd Civil Engineer Squadron's firefighters and Explosive Ordnance Disposal technicians completed two weeks of annual training on the island of Oahu in May.Many of the Oregon National Guard civil engineers came to the island to build cabins for the Girl Scouts of Hawaii at Camp

  • 124th FW Airmen Make Historic Live Drops in OCTC

    BOISE, ID -- A-10 Thunderbolt II pilots from the 190th Fighter Squadron and special warfare tactical air control party Airmen from the 124th Air Support Operations Squadron, Idaho Air National Guard made history when they dropped live 500-pound Mark 82, low-drag bombs from A-10 Thunderbolt IIs in

  • Alaska Air National Guard rescues two men after plane crash

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing rescued a pilot and passenger May 31, two days after they were in an aircraft crash on Mount Hawkins in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.The National Park Service requested support from the Alaska

  • Radio communications tower erected at 177th Fighter Wing

    ATLANTIC CITY AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.J. -- The 177th Fighter Wing is one step closer to completion of a 112 foot tall radio communications tower.The final section of the structure was hoisted to the top by crane and bolted down by Airmen with the 212th Engineering and Installation Squadron,

  • Michigan Air Guard member follows path to England

    RAF MOLESWORTH, England – With four stars on his shoulder, he was the highest-ranking officer U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Sydney Suwannarat had ever seen. The staff was called to attention, the room fell silent and he approached where she and two other junior enlisted colleagues were standing at the

  • WING helps administer almost 100,000 COVID-19 vaccines

    MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin National Guard Citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen have helped local health departments administer nearly 100,000 COVID-19 vaccines since establishing the first mobile vaccination teams in late January.Guard personnel on mobile vaccination teams have responded to requests for

  • NY Guard Airmen plant 'Survivor Tree' to commemorate 9/11

    ROME N.Y. – Airmen of the Eastern Air Defense Sector marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center by planting a seedling from a tree that survived the attack outside their headquarters in Rome.The seedling from the 9/11 Memorial and Museum Survivor Tree was planted