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  • Air National Guard Director Rice makes historic visit to Iowa National Guard

    Over the November 2016 training weekend, a sitting director of the Air National Guard visited the 185th Air Refueling Wing here - a first in the unit's history.The purpose of the visit is part of ANG Director Lt. Gen. L. Scott Rice's initiative to interact directly with Airmen who live and work in

  • Maui Airmen and Soldiers team up to clear flood debris

    Hawaii Air and Army National Guard members based out of Maui teamed up to help clear debris from the Wailuku River Sept. 21-27.To protect life, property, and infrastructure and to provide humanitarian assistance, Airmen from the HIANG's 292nd Combat Communications squadron and Soldiers from the

  • Maintenance Airman quietly excels

    Saving hundreds of thousands of dollars is something that not many people claim, and not talking about it is something even more unique, but not for Staff Sgt. Julia Meyer.Meyer deployed to Al Udeid Air Base, Abū Nakẖlah, Qatar, earlier this year. She is a fuels systems mechanic, or as she puts it,

  • 102nd Intelligence Wing hosts Otis microgrid project leadership summit

    The 102nd Intelligence Wing hosted a number of high-ranking military and government officials as well as innovators from several high-tech energy companies during a leadership summit here Oct. 25, focusing on the upcoming Otis microgrid project.Among those in attendance was Honorable Miranda

  • ANG/AFRC Test Center demonstrates upgraded C-130 engines

    The Air National Guard Air Force Reserve Command Test Center conducted a demonstration flight showcasing engine upgrades to the C-130H aircraft here, October 20.This upgrade, to the Rolls-Royce T56 Series 3.5 engine, has already been approved for the LC-130s used by the New York Air National Guard

  • 137 SOW graduates first special operations combat systems officer

    An Airman from the 137th Special Operations Wing at Will Rogers Air National Guard Base in Oklahoma City made history by becoming the first MC-12W combat systems officer from the base.U.S. Air Force 2nd Lt. Brent Webb graduated, Oct. 14, from the combat systems officer school at Naval Air Station

  • No Mo' Cancer

    Meeting Tech. Sgt. Moira Howerton has forever changed my outlook on life.I first met Moira, better known as "Mo," during a group lunch, though I had seen her often working around the 113th Communications Squadron, always happy and energetic.During our lunch, she told me about her career going on 14

  • 137th Special Operations Wing deploys to Southwest Asia

    About 30 Airmen from the 137th Special Operations Wing said their goodbye's to family, friends and fellow Airmen, Oct. 19, here before leaving for a 6-month deployment to Southwest Asia in support of Operation Freedom's Sentinel.These Airmen are among the nearly 140 Airmen from WRANGB who are

  • Red ribbons and recovery

    As part of a renewed emphasis on substance abuse education and prevention in the Iowa National Guard, the 185th Air Refueling Wing care team, held a special kickoff event Oct 18, as a precursor to Red Ribbon week.Red Ribbon Week, is part of the National Family Partnership that was created in 1985 in