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  • Alaska National Guard’s Exercise Arctic Eagle 2020 begins

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – About 900 Air and Army National Guard members from 15 states will participate in Exercise Arctic Eagle 2020 across Alaska Feb. 20 to March 7.During the exercise, national, state and local agencies will conduct sustained operations in the extreme cold of

  • ANG family deployed simultaneously: Sniders’ support 779th EAS

    The term ‘beans and bullets’ was started in the civil war, a time where fathers and sons served together side-by-side. Beans, as in coffee beans, and bullets where items supplied to support the frontlines, similar to the mission here at Ali Al Salem Air Base. For one Illinois family, the tradition

  • National Guard Airman receives Ohio Cross for rescuing woman

    COLUMBUS, Ohio – Lt. Gov. Jon Husted awarded the Ohio Cross to U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Ryan K. Tucker, the operations compliance superintendent at the 178th Wing, during the Ohio National Guard’s Joint Senior Leaders Conference Feb. 14.The Ohio Cross is awarded to any member of the Ohio National

  • Luke ASTS Airmen train with ANG, VA

    Nurses, pharmacy technicians and flight doctors were among the squadron members who participated in the National Disaster Medical System training exercise.

  • 177th Fighter Wing Airmen receive mental health first aid training

    EGG HARBOR TOWNSHIP, N.J. – Airmen with the 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard received mental health first aid training Feb. 12-13 at the Atlantic City Air National Guard Base.The two-day class was designed to address some of the unique aspects of military culture and give unit

  • Special Tactics Airmen participate in Southern Strike 2020

    For the first time, the 125th Special Tactics Squadron (STS), assigned to Portland Air National Guard Base, Oregon, was invited to participate in Southern Strike 2020 taking place in Gulfport, Miss. Jan. 30 through Feb. 13, 2020. Southern Strike 2020 is a large Joint Force exercise put on by the

  • Stealth fighters combine airpower in new fighter exercise

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii, – More than 600 Air National Guard members, reservists and active-duty Airmen completed a new fighter exercise Feb. 7, at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The training featured the integration of the world’s most advanced, fifth-generation airframes. This first

  • 180th Fighter Wing Goes to Green Flag

    More than 180 Airmen and 12 F-16 fighter jets assigned to the Ohio National Guard’s 180th Fighter Wing arrived at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, Feb. 6, 2020, to participate in exercise Green Flag-WestThe Two Week Exercise is a realistic, Air-to-Surface, joint training exercise, usually involving

  • Flying the MQ-9, one of the many firsts at Southern Strike

    GULFPORT, Miss. – One of Col. Rick Weaver’s priorities as the exercise director for Southern Strike 2020, was to integrate the use of the MQ-9 Reaper into the breadth of the exercise. On Tuesday, Jan. 28, an MQ-9 aircraft launched from the Gulfport airport by a North Dakota pilot on-site, flew to