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  • 167th Airlift Wing ushers in new era with arrival of first C-17

    Despite the rainy skies Thursday, a silver lining could be found by the West Virginia Air National Guard's 167th Airlift Wing with the arrival of its first Air Force C-17 Globemaster III recently.The C-17, piloted by a crew assigned to the 164th AW in Memphis, Tennessee, touched down at Eastern West

  • Georgia goes to Georgia: breaching barriers and building relationships

    Imagine traveling to a foreign country, not speaking the language, and being tasked to teach some of the country's top medical professionals all through the use of translators.For a team of eight healthcare experts from the Georgia Air National Guard's 116th Air Control Wing medical group, that's

  • 177th SFS hosts active shooter training

    The New Jersey Air National Guard's 177th Security Forces Squadron here hosted a mobile training team from the Air Force Reserve's 610th Security Forces Squadron, Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas, Sept. 23-25 at the Atlantic City Air National Guard Base.The team of instructors

  • ANG Airmen inspire school children in Australian Outback

    D.C. Air National Guard Airmen took time to plant seeds of friendship with Australian youngsters during their recent deployment to Royal Australian Air Force Base Tindal.        Approximately 20 pilots, maintainers, medics and life support Airmen visited  McFarlane Primary School in Katherine in

  • Joint effort widens scope of Operation Pacific Unity 14-8

    As Pacific Unity 14-8 wraps up the construction of two new female dormitories here this week, additional construction projects have begun at Togoba Secondary School in Papua New Guinea.This year marks the fourth iteration for the bilateral Engineering Civic Action Program; Pacific Unity is

  • Former Kingsley dependent returns, wearing four stars

    The commander of the U.S. Air Force Air Education and Training Command made his first official visit to Kingsley Field Aug. 27, a base he is very familiar with. Gen. Robin Rand remembers the time he spent here long before his acceptance to the Air Force Service Academy in 1979 and long before he

  • Air Guard families build resiliency through 'Strong Bonds' retreat

    Twenty Airmen and their spouses from the Iowa Air National Guard attended a marriage retreat held here Sept. 19-20 as part of an effort to improve resiliency among Airmen and their families.Iowa ANG chaplains from the185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa, and 133rd Test Squadron at Fort

  • 188th Airman honors supervisors, University of Arkansas with Patriot Award

    One 188th Wing Airman recognized her employer with a Department of Defense Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve Patriot Award during a presentation ceremony held at the University of Arkansas Center for Multicultural and Diversity Education Sept. 19.Maj. Danielle Wood, 188th Wing Equal

  • Construction on largest building Kingsley Field begins

    At the 173rd Fighter Wing two things mark the beginning of each day, the sun comes up and a parade of contractors begin making their way to any number of projects across the base.At the moment the operations group is expanding their vault, the flight simulator is enlarging their building, workers