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  • 300 rated officers to join Total Force Aviation Recruiting Team

    The Air Force's first Aviation Recruiting Team, a Total Force Recruiting program specifically designed to help reach the goals of the Chief Of Staff of the Air Force’s Rated Diversity Improvement initiatives, was recently stood up and AFRS’s Detachment 1 held the team's first two-day training course

  • New Jersey Airman ventures to Antarctica, supports science mission

    While most people were prepping for the holidays this past season, New Jersey Air National Guardsman Master Sgt. Justin Rogers was returning home from an iced adventure in Antarctica.“I like to travel and this was a way to do my job and see new things,” said Rogers, an occupational safety specialist

  • "Red Rampage" - Powered by the 139th Airlift Wing

    For the past five years, Airmen and volunteers of the 139th Airlift Wing have had a unique role at the home football games of the Kansas City Chiefs. Guardsmen with the Missouri Air National Guard unit, as well as retirees and their family members have been supporting the pyrotechnic crew at

  • NGB team facilitates innovation, launches competition

    ARLINGTON, Va. – Airmen in the California Air National Guard designed maintenance trailers to operate more efficiently in austere environments, reducing the time it takes to deploy fighter aircraft. Meanwhile, a battalion with the Maryland Army National Guard incorporated a civilian-based fitness

  • West Virginia Airman serves in several fire protection roles

    Senior Airman Nate Arthur is a fire protection craftsman assigned to the 130th Fire and Emergency Services, West Virginia Air National Guard, who also holds many titles in the civilian sector.Arthur is a native of Frazier's Bottom, W.Va., and a 2004 graduate of Herbert Hoover High School in Elkview,

  • 166th AW fuel cell maintainers work in high places, tiny spaces

    The fuel system of a C-130H2 is one of the most complex and critical systems on the aircraft. To keep the aircraft mission-ready, fuel cell maintainers work in dark, grimy and difficult-to-access places. They perch on top of the wings while clipped to a safety harness, or inside the tanks wearing a

  • Guam National Guard supports America’s National Defense Strategy

    Guam National Guard members make vital contributions to the Joint Force team executing the nation’s National Defense Strategy, the National Guard’s most senior general told Soldiers and Airmen during a recent visit.“Guam is strategically important to our national defense,” Air Force Gen. Joseph

  • ANG Defender Challenge team trains at Ft. Chaffee

    Security forces Airmen from across the United States gathered at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, from January 21-25, 2020, to train for the Defender Challenge, a competition between security forces members.

  • 104th FW dental technician reflects on 40 years of military service

    The 104th Fighter Wing is full of hardworking Airmen who get the job done. The 104th Medical Group has a history of success preparing Barnestormers to be mission ready and fit to fight.Master Sgt. Terrylee Lois Crowther is a dental assistant and the noncommissioned officer in charge of the dental

  • ANG Defender Challenge team trains at Fort Chaffee

    Security forces Airmen from across the United States gathered at Fort Chaffee, Arkansas, Jan. 21-25 to train for the Defender Challenge, a competition between security forces units.The training introduced the Airmen who compose the Air National Guard’s team to each other as they trained on skills