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  • Skiway teams make landing in the Arctic more accessible

    SCOTIA, N.Y. – The specialty of the New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing is landing massive, ski-equipped LC-130s on snow or ice at the top or bottom of the world.But before the pilot can put that plane down, a team of 109th engineers has to go in first and build a snow runway, called a

  • Airmen Sharpen the Leading Edge of Domestic Response AI Technology

    Program managers from the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Lab and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center’s Humanitarian Assistance Disaster Relief program visited an Indiana Unclassified Processing, Assessment, and Dissemination site located at the 181st Intelligence Wing, Hulman Field Air National

  • NY National Guard Captain helps replace lost Medal of Honor

    BEREA, OHIO – It took three years of writing letters, filing forms and cutting through red tape, but thanks to New York Air National Guard Capt. Jason Cole, the actions of a World War I Soldier are being commemorated again in Berea.Cole, a member of the 224th Air Defense Group at the Eastern Air

  • 103rd AW officers help prepare ROTC cadets for leadership

    On a crisp fall morning in New Haven, Conn., ROTC cadets prepared to take a group picture outside Yale University's Linsly-Chittenden Hall. Standing next to them were decorated Air Force officers, whose footsteps many of them plan to follow.The cadets, assigned to Air Force ROTC Detachment 009 at

  • 'Snow King' presides over base clean up

    Enough snow fell during a Thanksgiving Day eve storm in Western Iowa to cause Master Sgt. Dave Twohig, the 185th Air Refueling Wing's "Snow King," to kick-start his plan for clearing snow from his Air Guard unit.With the season's first snow, Twohig traded his ball cap for one of his many other hats,

  • Citizen-Warrior: Senior Airman finds a family in Vehicle Maintenance

    BATTLE CREEK, Mich. – "My favorite thing about working for Vehicle Maintenance is the close family dynamic. That was really attractive to me when I first was picking what shop I wanted to work at. Everyone is just a true family here."Senior Airman Annie VanArman works in the 110th Logistics