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  • Air Guardsman reflects on meaning of 3rd Bronze Star

    An Air National Guard Airman from the 166th Airlift Wing here was presented with the Bronze Star Medal during a ceremony at the wing headquarters here June 20.Air Force Maj. Devin Tomaseski, base civil engineer, 166th Civil Engineer Squadron, was presented the medal by Air Force Brig. Gen. Carol

  • Air Guard drop 82nd Airborne, French Foreign Legion paratroopers in France

    Air National Guard Airmen from the 165th Airlift Wing, Georgia ANG, and 152nd AW, Nevada ANG, linked up here recently to support American and French paratroopers who participated in historical reenactment jumps in memory of D-Day.The Airmen supported a week of airborne operations including routes

  • ANG Command Chief meets with Kingsley Field Airmen

    The Command Chief of the Air National Guard visited the Kingsley Field Airmen here July 15.Chief Master Sgt. James Hotaling hosted numerous sessions with Airmen from the 173rd Fighter Wing and 270th Air Traffic Control Squadron ranging from junior enlisted, company grade officers, to Airmen support

  • Air Force cycling team celebrates 20th 'RAGBRAI'

    This week is the 20th summer the Air Force cycling team has been riding across Iowa as part of the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa bicycling event held in the state each July.The Air Force team has grown to more than 100 active-duty Air Force, Reserve, National Guard, and Air Force

  • First All-Guard B-2 Maintenance Team Supports Weapons School Ops

    In a year marked with a number of milestones and firsts for the 131st Bomb Wing, a team from the 131st Maintenance Group recently added another by being the first all-Air National Guard B-2 maintenance team to support deployed operations for the jet.Twenty B-2 aircraft maintenance Citizen Airmen

  • 185th ARW, Home Base Iowa team up for Military Job Fair

    Thirty-four area businesses and staffing agencies came to the Military Job Fair at the Air National Guard base here July 18 with a mission of their own; to hire as many military veterans as they can.Home Base Iowa, working in coordination with the 185th Air Refueling Wing family programs office and

  • 173rd Security Forces trains for close quarters toughness

    173rd Fighter Wing Security Forces Squadron Airmen spent two days grappling with each other during a combatives course held here June 18-19.The security forces combatives course teaches various defensive techniques with names like the guillotine, arm bar, and rear naked chokes.Tech. Sgt. Clinton