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  • Waiver enables 62-year-old doctor to join New York Air Guard

    F.S. GABRESKI AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. - Dr. David Feldman, a 62-year old New York City gastroenterologist and private pilot, is now also Air National Guard Lt. Col. David Feldman."Joining the military was a lifelong dream," Feldman said. "But it was something I never had time for."Feldman took

  • 25 Years Later: Remembering Khobar Towers

    RAMSTEIN AIR BASE, Germany -- “I still don’t know if the bloody footprints on the ground are those of a survivor or one of the 19 who lost their lives that day.”Those are the words of Master Sgt. Norma Gillette, U.S. Air Forces Europe - Air Forces Africa Innovation and Transformation Office

  • Airmen help care for Moroccan children during African Lion

    TAFRAOUTE, Morocco – U.S. Air National Guard members in Morocco for the African Lion 2021 exercise provided medical care to children at the Military Medical Surgical Field Hospital June 7-17.The Airmen offered well-child checks and basic pediatric care as part of the humanitarian civic assistance

  • Nevada Air Guard activated to help fight fires in West

    RENO, Nev. – The National Interagency Fire Center has requested one C-130 aircraft and aircrew from the 152nd Airlift Wing, Nevada Air National Guard, to aid firefighting efforts in the West.The activation is more than a month earlier than last year, when the 152nd Airlift Wing was activated July

  • 123rd CRG completes TRANSCOM training mission with Army

    VOLK FIELD, Wis. – More than 100 Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Contingency Response Group and 50 Army Soldiers with the 690th Rapid Port Opening Element participated in Operation Lone Oak, a Transportation Command Turbo Distribution exercise June 7-12.The exercise tested the

  • New England Soldiers, Airmen join cybersecurity exercise

    HARTFORD, Conn. – Cyber Soldiers and Airmen from around New England gathered June 14-18 at Joint Base Cape Cod to participate in the seventh annual Cyber Yankee cybersecurity exercise.The exercise pitted Marines and Marine Reservists as the “Red Team” against “Blue Teams” comprised of Guardsmen and

  • MXG removes tail from Utah Air Guard KC-135R

    SALT LAKE CITY – On June 2, Members from the Utah Air National Guard's 151st Maintenance Group and the Kansas Air National Guard's 190th Maintenance Group took on the monumental task of removing the tail from a KC-135R due to a hairline crack.It started when pilots from the 151st Operations Group

  • Nebraska Air National Guard SFS takes on Patriot 21

    VOLK FIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Wis. — Airmen of the 155th Security Forces Squadron and other National Guard units and partners worked through a mock natural disaster exercise at Patriot 21 in Wisconsin June 10-19.The exercise, sponsored by the National Guard Bureau A3 and accredited by the

  • Learning from the past helps prepare leaders for the future

    SHARPSBURG, Md. – As part of continuing professional development, National Guard members toured Antietam National Battlefield recently, taking in the details of one of the bloodiest days in American military history and the lessons learned from the 1862 battle."I think every little bit of wisdom and

  • 188th Medical Group completes casualty care training

    EBBING AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ark. – Twenty-one Arkansas Air National Guard Airmen from the 188th Medical Group completed an intensive Tactical Combat Casualty Care course June 3-4.The training involved airway management, tourniquet application, wound bandaging, and various stretcher-carrying