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  • 109th AW participates in Canadian Forces Arctic exercise

    Nearly 40 Airmen and two Air Force LC-130 Hercules ski-equipped aircraft from the 109th Airlift Wing will be demonstrating their vast capabilities on the Arctic ice as they join the Canadian Forces April 11 to participate in Canada's annual Operation Nunalivut Exercise.Canada's Joint Task

  • How Diversity Enhances Spiritual Resiliency

    Guard Airmen belong to an Air National Guard family that is much bigger than the individuals of which it is comprised. Each Airman brings his or her own unique skills, experiences, backgrounds and knowledge to work toward bigger missions that accomplish bigger goals that ultimately serve a bigger

  • 173rd Fighter Wing solves fleet wide problem

    Senior Master Sgt. Brian Stroup from the 173rd Fighter Wing Quality Assurance Office was quite a ways from his desk, where his supervisory role usually keeps him. At the senior enlisted rank of E-8 he didn't often have the chance to crawl back underneath a jet. Here he was with the jets at

  • Sick baby and her family aboard Navy frigate after 129th Rescue Wing rescue

    A California family stranded in choppy waters of the Pacific Ocean with a very ill baby girl was safely aboard a Navy ship Monday, enroute to San Diego, military spokesmen said.The family boarded the USS Vandegrift after pararescuemen from the 129th Rescue Wing reached the boat Thursday night,

  • Airman's Creed on display in support of Airman affected by Boston bombing

    On the morning of the 2013 Boston Marathon, Alan Bauman and Colin Bellavance woke up at Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, ready to tackle the final two weeks of basic training. By the day's end, the two flight mates began to learn the significance of the Airmen's Creed and its call to "never leave an

  • Airmen help save fuel through better planning

    With the dramatic jump in gas prices throughout the years, we all have looked for ways to save money at the pump when we fuel up.The Air Force and the Air National Guard are no different and with the ideas from two Airmen with the Iowa Air National Guard's 185th Air Refueling Wing here the Air Force

  • Alaskan exercise tests Oregon Guard's CERFP agility

    Nearly 200 Soldiers and Airmen of the Oregon National Guard's highly trained emergency response team participated with the Hawaii National Guard during Vigilant Guard-Alaska 2014 near Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson March 24 - April 3.As members of the Oregon National Guard's Chemical, Biological,

  • Arizona's F-16 schoolhouse builds capable partners, strong bonds

    Over European castles, Middle Eastern deserts and Pacific islands, F-16 fighter pilots are soaring in ever-increasing numbers.Their experiences, nationalities and cultures are different, but they share several common bonds. They are partners, they are friends and they learned to fly their F-16s at

  • Airmen Returns from South Pole

    An Airman from the 117th Air Refueling Wing recently returned here from a six week deployment to Antarctica. Senior Master Sgt. Trey Hamm was the Joint Ground Safety Manager for the Air Force and the Navy at the National Science Foundation's McMurdo Station in Antarctica. "The trip down to