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  • Alaska Air Guardsmen build homes for Cherokee veterans

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Thirty-eight Alaska Air National Guardsmen with the 176th Wing helped build homes for Cherokee veterans in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, May 15-29 as part of the Department of Defense’s Innovative Readiness Training program.The Cherokee Veterans Housing Initiative, a

  • Annual posture statement touts ‘Year of the Guard’

    ARLINGTON, Va. – The National Guard released its annual posture statement June 9, detailing the Guard’s current operations and providing an overview of missions during a historic, unprecedentedly busy past year for the Guard.“National Guard members supported every combatant commander around the

  • Selfridge CE Airmen Add Training B-Hut

    Selfridge Air National Guard Base, MI -- Thanks to the vision of one local Airman, Selfridge Air National Guard Base is now home to one of the strangest B-Huts in the U.S. military.The B-Hut, slang for a Barracks Hut, is a small building commonly seen on U.S. military installations in Afghanistan

  • Guard, Reserve ramps up logistics training

    LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Arkansas -- ‘Port Dawgs’ from the 189th Aerial Port Flight, Air National Guard, and from the 96th Aerial Port Squadron, Air Force Reserve, created a joint training event at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas, June 3-6, 2021.The training event required each unit’s air

  • 103rd Airlift Wing trains multicapable maintainers

    EAST GRANBY, Conn. – Airmen from the 103rd Security Forces Squadron partnered with the 103rd Maintenance Group June 5 to conduct flight line security training. The course is part of an Air Force effort to develop multi-capable Airmen embodying the Ability to Survive and Operate (ATSO) mindset.During

  • Nevada Air Guard’s ‘Baby Doc’ a leader in pandemic battle

    LAS VEGAS, NV – Undeterred by a rare health condition early in life, Nevada Air Guard 1st Lt. Caleena Longworth is now on the front line of health care in southern Nevada during the COVID-19 pandemic.Few in the state have vaccinated more people than Longworth, who has administered the vaccine to

  • Alaska Air National Guardsman excels in marksmanship

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – Alaska Air National Guard Staff Sgt. Matthew Larson, a security forces member with the 268th Security Forces Squadron, Clear Air Force Station, was awarded first place in part of the annual marksmanship competition known as the Adjutant General Match, or TAG

  • 906th ARS takes teamwork to a new level

    Scott Air Force Base, Ill. – Airmen across 32 different career fields work in unison to service, sustain and fly KC-135 Stratotankers. These Airmen, with the 906th Air Refueling Squadron on Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, enable a global support mission in tandem with Air National Guardsmen.A unique

  • 167th Airlift Wing BASH program vital to airfield safety

    MARTINSBURG, W.Va. – At the 167th Airlift Wing, airfield management ensures a safe, efficient and effective airfield and responds to safety hazards affecting the airfield environment.Safety threats like the weather, foreign object damage and even local wildlife pose a serious risk to aircraft