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  • F-16’s from Shaw AFB to train with Vermont Air National Guard

    SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. – The 55th Fighter Squadron, 20th Fighter Wing, Shaw Air Force base (AFB), will conduct F-16C Fighting Falcon training missions out of the Vermont Air National Guard base later this month. A small contingent of Airmen assigned to the 55th Fighter Squadron will arrive on

  • Arkansas Air Guardsman receives Air Force recognition

    NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR -- An Arkansas Air National Guardsman was recently named the Air Force’s enlisted staff-level Force Support Reserve Component NCO of the Year.Tech. Sgt. Christine Norman, a military personnel management assistant assigned to the Arkansas Air National Guard headquarters at Camp

  • Swamp Foxes Support Operation Healthy Delta 2021

    SIKESTON, MO -- More than 40 Airmen from the South Carolina Air National Guard (SCANG) deployed to the Midwest to participate in Operation Healthy Delta 2021, a Department of Defense sponsored Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) program designed to provide military training opportunities by

  • Local sheriff's office borrows NY Air Guard Base for dog training

    STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, SCOTIA, New York -- The Schenectady County Sheriff Department K-9 unit trained at Stratton Air National Guard Base on June 16th, 2021.The K-9s and their handlers were able to utilize the base track, surrounding wooded areas and a building to train in different

  • 106th Medical Group hones med tech trauma management skills

    WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. – Simulated casualties were all around them. Twenty people lay dead or dying in the mass casualty exercise.Walking wounded "victims" were also arriving, all in need of immediate care. Radios crackled with messages about patients, their locations and transport, and area

  • Oregon Guard participates in emergency preparedness exercise

    WARRENTON, Ore. - Following a monumental season of wildfires, ice storms and the pandemic over the past year, emergency preparedness has become less of an afterthought and more of a necessary priority to Oregonians.Members of the Oregon National Guard served on the fire lines during the wildfires of

  • 104th Fighter Wing hones skills during readiness exercise

    WESTFIELD, Mass. – The 104th Fighter Wing conducted 24-hour operations during a readiness exercise June 10-13 at Barnes Air National Guard Base.The REX lets Airmen set aside their daily tasks and hone the skills that will enable them to excel in a contested and degraded environment. Airmen worked

  • Lost hiker sought by Alaska Guard finds her way to safety

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – A search for a hiker who had a run-in with bears ended when she made her way to a road and waved down a driver, a day-and-a-half after she was last heard from.A ground search and rescue volunteer notified Alaska State Troopers at about 5:30 p.m. June 16 that

  • A first of its kind, Adriatic Thunder

    ZAGREB, Croatia – Soldiers and Airmen from the Minnesota and Iowa National Guard conducted the Midwest Croatia Kosovo Exercise Adriatic Thunder with the Kosovo Security Forces and Croatian Armed Forces in Zagreb June 5-19.“We’re partnering, showing our ability to work with one another, work across