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  • Nurse joins Ohio National Guard amid COVID-19 pandemic

    COLUMBUS, Ohio – Joining the military is a big decision. Many people would say the same thing about the health care profession. However, when registered nurse Brandi Purdy received the Air National Guard’s call in March that she was cleared to swear in, she did not hesitate. Purdy swore in on April

  • "Hollywood Guard" reaches milestone with 6-ship formation flight

    Amid the challenges serving in the Air National Guard during the pandemic known as COVID-19, California Air National Guard maintainers from the 146th Maintenance Group (146 MXG) and aircrew from the 115th Airlift Squadron (115 AS) collaborated to accomplish the launching of 6 C-130J Super Hercules

  • Dawn's Airman

    Master Sgt. Lindsey Sarah Watson-Kirwin enlisted in the New Hampshire Air National Guard in 2003 as a high school senior to pay for college and to serve her community. Her dad, who passed in 2006, had served in the Army during Vietnam as a Green Beret and encouraged her to consider the military. She

  • 133rd Airlift Wing supports Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program Honduras

    SAINT PAUL, Minn. – Members with the Minnesota National Guard’s 133rd Airlift Wing Air Transportation Function (ATF) supported a Denton Humanitarian Assistance Program movement to Danli, Honduras. The Denton Program is a Department of Defense transportation program which transfers humanitarian

  • Kentucky National Guard assisting with primary election

    FRANKFORT, Ky. – More than 200 Kentucky National Guard Soldiers and Airmen will assist at polling locations around the state for the June 23 primary election as part of the state’s COVID-19 response.Guard members will set up and clean poll locations and assist with traffic, parking and crowd control

  • Air Force Recruiting Service releases Aim High mobile app

    To help better communicate, inform and inspire new recruits and with embedded tools to guide them into the right Total Force career path, the Air Force Recruiting Service’s Innovation team launched the “Aim High” mobile phone application June 15, 2020.

  • Selfridge Airmen maintain combat readiness

    In the first drill weekend since the coronavirus pandemic, Staff Sgt. Andrew Kolbe got checked out in the basics of the T34 turbofan jet engine, used on the A-10 Thunderbolt II at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich.The training -- and the combat readiness -- of the Michigan Air National Guard

  • Ohio Guard supports veterans home residents, staff with testing

    Ohio National Guard medical personnel recently served those Ohioans who have served their country, when they conducted COVID-19 sampling at the Ohio Veterans Home’s facility in the southern part of the state.In support of the Ohio Department of Veterans Services, the Ohio National Guard provided

  • USAF instructors prepare for virtual in-residence remote EPME

    Tech. Sgt. Megan Francolini and Tech. Sgt. Renee Wiederspahn recorded sessions in the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center TV studio, June 4, on McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in East Tennessee, during camera-work for virtual in-residence remote NCO academy for the total U.S. Air