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  • 181st IW, local partners conduct emergency response training

    HULMAN FIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ind. – Indiana National Guard Airmen assigned to the 181st Intelligence Wing participated in an emergency response exercise with civilian agencies March 5.The exercise, dubbed HUF 24, involved a simulated plane crash at an airshow with victims scattered

  • Alaska Air National Guard helps rescue plane crash victims

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska - Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing worked with Alaska State Troopers and the U.S. Coast Guard to rescue five victims of a March 5 crash of a Cessna 206 airplane at Lake Iliamna.The Alaska Rescue Coordination Center received an emergency locator

  • Iowa National Guard KC-135 retired after 65 years’ service

    SIOUX CITY, Iowa – An Iowa Air National Guard KC-135 with a giant bat tail flash retired after 65 years of service. Tail number 57-2606, nicknamed “Free Bird,” took off this week for a one-way trip to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base.Chief

  • Idaho National Guard trains for joint combat rescue missions

    BOISE, Idaho – Idaho Army and Air National Guard aviation units conducted combat search and rescue training together March 9 throughout Idaho’s Owyhee Mountains.“Any opportunity to integrate the Army and Air missions in a joint training capacity is beneficial to both units,” said 1st Lt. Kate Smith,

  • Pennsylvania Guard pilots training course for Northern Command

    FORT INDIANTOWN GAP, Pa. - More than 20 members of the Pennsylvania National Guard joint staff and partners from the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency piloted a three-day staff-training course March 7-9 led by trainers from U.S. Northern Command.The trial course will be the Phase II of the

  • New York National Guard COVID mission tops 2 years

    NEW YORK - In the two years since the New York National Guard was ordered to help contain a COVID-19 outbreak in New Rochelle, 7,050 members of New York’s military forces have been part of the state’s COVID-19 response.During the more than 730 days since March 8, 2020, members of the Army and Air

  • 1,000,000 COVID-19 Test Kits and Counting

    Vermont -- The men and women of the Vermont Air National Guard assigned to the COVID Warehouse Taskforce have achieved a grand total of 1,122,504 COVID-19 test kits delivered across the state as of February.Since the initial launch of the mission on July 20, 2020, long work hours have been

  • Climate Change a Critical Challenge for DOD, Hicks Says

    Virtually every person and organization across the globe is impacted by climate change, including the Defense Department, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen H. Hicks said. The deputy secretary made her remarks virtually before the Worldwide Logistics Symposium 2022, today. "Climate change is