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  • Virginia ANG maintainers take home prestigious awards

    JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. – Two Virginia Air National Guard Airmen have won what’s known as the most prominent award in the Air Force maintenance field. Capt. Andrew Gibler and Master Sgt. William Marshall from the 192nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron are this year’s Gen. Lew Allen Jr. Award

  • 109th AW on standby in New Zealand for Antarctica missions

    SCOTIA, N.Y. – The New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing will not be flying to Antarctica this year to provide logistics support to the National Science Foundation's U.S. Antarctic Program.For 32 years, the 109th Airlift Wing, based at Stratton Air National Guard Base in Scotia, has

  • Connecticut Guardsman organizes Thanksgiving meal donations

    As many American families continue to face health and economic challenges during the COVID-19 pandemic, a Connecticut Air National Guard member is making sure families in the local community can enjoy a warm meal this Thanksgiving.

  • Air National Guard F-35 LO shop established in Vermont

    SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. – As the first Air National Guard unit to base the F-35A Lightning II, the 158th Fighter Wing is familiar with making history and breaking records. Now, the wing claims another title: home of the first F-35 low observable (LO) shop in the Air National Guard. In anticipation for

  • Cargo aircraft turned rescue platform for astronaut recovery

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii – It’s Nov. 13, two days before a historic rocket launch, and a helicopter pilot approaches a cargo jet on a clear morning at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. He is carrying a black box and surrounded by movement; truckloads of rescue crafts and personnel are

  • N.Y. Senior Airman graduates from jungle warfare school

    MANAUS, Brazil – When Senior Airman Caleb Lapinel showed up at Brazil’s Jungle Warfare Training School in September, he met special forces soldiers from Spain, Egypt and Indonesia; paratroopers from Paraguay; amphibious infantrymen from Nigeria, and a Kaibil special operator from Guatemala whose

  • Team Fairchild supports aeromedical evacuation across Pacific

    Airmen from Fairchild's 92nd Air Refueling Squadron, 93rd ARS, 384th ARS, 97th ARS and 92nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, conducted an aeromedical evacuation mission November 7-13, bringing patients in need of medical care from the Pacific back to the United States.Fairchild Airmen worked alongside