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  • Shifting the focus: training for the near-peer conflict

    Boise, ID -- The 124th Fighter Wing conducted a wing focus exercise at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, Feb. 4-6, 2022, to prepare for a near-peer combat conflict.The exercise included operations at a simulated main operating base, forward operating base, a field unit, and featured simulated ground and

  • What does the...MOC do?

    BOISE, ID -- The flightline of the Idaho Air National Guard at Gowen Field, Boise, Idaho, can be a busy place, especially on drill weekends, but there is one shop – the 124th Maintenance Operation Center – that has a pulse on everything that’s happening to ensure the A-10 Thunderbolt II is ready to

  • NORAD protects skies over SoFi Stadium during Super Bowl LVI

    TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, FL -- North American Aerospace Defense Command’s Continental U.S. Region fighters along with interagency partners will be securing the skies around the SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California on Super Bowl Sunday, February 13.Continental U.S. NORAD Region aircraft will be

  • Georgia Air National Guard officially retires first of 16 JSTARS aircraft

    ROBINS AIR FORCE BASE, GA -- The Georgia Air National Guard’s 116th Air Control Wing, in cooperation with the 461st Air Control Wing, officially retired the first E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft here on Thursday.Aircraft serial number 92-3289, the first E-8C JSTARS to

  • Red Flag 22-1

    NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, NV -- Maintaining strategic deterrence through multiple avenues, including intercontinental ballistic missiles and a bomber presence that is unmatched, Air Force Global Strike Command’s mission is the cornerstone of the United States’ defense. To maintain force readiness AFGSC

  • NJANG’s KC-135, F-16 wings exercise “Jersey ACEs”

    JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, NJ -- The New Jersey Air National Guard’s 108th Wing and 177th Fighter Wing conducted their first Agile Combat Employment (ACE) exercise between Naval Air Station Key West, Fla., and Muñiz Air National Guard Base, Puerto Rico, Jan. 21-23.The two Wings’ Airmen

  • 167th Airlift Wing members participate in Green Flag Little Rock exercise

    MARTINSBURG, WV -- The 167th Airlift Wing successfully completed the Green Flag Little Rock 22-03 exercise hosted by the 34th Combat Training Squadron at Little Rock Air Force Base, Jacksonville, Arkansas, January 9-21.The primary objective of GFLR is to support the Joint Readiness Training Center

  • New Hampshire National Guard Airman leads by example

    SEABROOK, N.H. – On a dreary day outside the Seabrook Emergency Room, the roads are slick with slush and hail and the temperatures fluctuate in and out of single digits. Luckily, the waiting room is warm and empty inside the sliding doors. A nurse bustles in from the cold and Senior Airman Devin

  • NY National Guard Airmen begin returning from Antarctic mission

    SCOTIA, NEW YORK – Seventy-three Airmen and three LC-130 "Skibirds" assigned to the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing are expected to begin returning from Antarctica to Stratton Air National Guard Base outside Schenectady, New York Feb 10-13.This marks the 34th season the 109th

  • A humble service; preparing the fallen

    BOISE, ID -- A siren blasted “alarm red, MOPP 4, ground attack!” as smoke billowed from a nearby tent. Airmen from the 124th Fighter Wing jumped into action, throwing, buttoning, zipping and securing their MOPP gear and swiftly taking shelter. The 124th Civil Engineer Squadron’s Gowen Field Fire