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  • Missouri Airmen mother, daughter join in fight against COVID

    ST. JOSEPH, Mo. – Missouri National Guard Senior Airman Terra Waitl from the 139th Logistics Readiness Squadron's material management office was activated for food bank missions in May last year.But she's not the only Waitl serving on COVID-19 missions. Her stepdaughter, Airman 1st Class Krysta

  • Aerial Port memorial run honors fallen teammates

    STRATTON ANGB, NY -- Twenty-five Airmen from the 109th Airlift Wing participated in the annual Air Force-wide Port Dawg Memorial Run on May 2nd, 2021 at Stratton Air National Guard Base. Port Dawg is what the air transportation specialists who man the Air Force’s aerial port squadrons call

  • National Guard, partners to conduct ORCA 21 CBRNE exercise

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Hundreds of National Guard Civil Support Team units from 11 states will participate in Exercise ORCA 2021 in Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna Valley and Seward with emergency responders and other Guard units.During the May 17-21 exercise, participants will

  • Interactive training helps strengthen team cohesiveness, unit awareness

    CAMP MURRAY, WASH. - ‘Social Distancing’: it’s been much more than a Public Health statement and all-too-common buzz phrase over the last 15 months. To halt the spread of COVID-19, many of the physically distancing guidelines have altered everyday processes around the world in profound ways that

  • Firefighter recognized with prestigious training awards

    MANSFIELD, Ohio -- Airman First Class Sophie Tridico, a member of the Fire Protection Unit at the 179th Airlift Wing in Mansfield, Ohio, stepped off the bus at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas on Sept. 22, 2020. Tridico arrived to Basic Military Training during the ongoing coronavirus

  • Michigan Air National Guardsman pursues kickboxing gold

    BATTLE CREEK, Michigan – U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Destiny “Diesel” Taylor has qualified to compete for a spot in the World Games 2022 as a result of her recent gold win at the World Association of Kickboxing Organizations U.S. National Championships in Nashville.With the restrictions due to the

  • ANG provides essential secure satellite communications

    VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. -- Perched on a scrub-oak-covered hilltop on the central coast of California is a small Air National Guard squadron that makes a big contribution to the Combined Force Space Component Command’s (CFSCC) mission to provide space capabilities to the joint warfighter

  • ANG paint facility paints P-47 scheme on Thunderbolt II

    Sioux City, Iowa -- A heritage paint scheme on a U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II from the Idaho Air National Guard was revealed this week at the National Guard paint facility in Sioux City, Iowa. The historical paint scheme was designed as a tribute to the Thunderbolt’s World War II predecessor.

  • 1st Air Force Visits Aerial Fire-Fighting Training in Southern California

    SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. – Four C-130 aircraft from the California and Nevada Air National Guard worked alongside the U.S. Forest Service during annual refresher and certification training with the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS) May 4-7, 2021. During the training, these aircraft