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  • Former 131st Commander promoted to brigadier general

    Gregory S. Champagne was promoted to brigadier general during a ceremony held at the Ike Skelton Training Site on Saturday.Champagne, a 30-year service member and the previous commander of the 131st Bomb Wing at Whiteman Air Force Base, Mo., has been serving as the Assistant Adjutant General-Air of

  • Crew Chief's First Launch: 'Nervous and Excited, All At the Same Time'

    It was early evening on May 7, 2013. Just about 8:15 p.m. - that's 2015 for you military types. That's what time Airman 1st Class Jhontez Peoples had his name written in indelible ink in the ledger of freedom. During routine night flying operations that evening, Peoples, a crew chief with the 127th

  • JSTARS receives international recognition

    The E-8C Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System, command and control, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance platform has been recognized as one of the "Big 25 [2012] biggest breakthroughs" by C4ISR Journal.Every year, the C4ISR Journal looks for new technologies and efforts that

  • CAP Helps 150 Scouts Earn Merit Badges at Selfridge

    Editor's note: Second in a two-part series about Air Force-supported youth programs near Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich. Approximately 150 Boy Scouts earned their Aviation merit badge during a day-long visit to Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich., May 5, 2013.Cadets and adult leaders

  • JROTC Program Trains Leaders, Builds 'Family'

    Editor's note: First in a two-part series about Air Force-supported youth programs near Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Mich. Can a combat veteran and first sergeant in the U.S. Marine Corps and a high school student both have the same ideas about leadership?Consider these comments, one from the

  • Going for the Gold

    On July 5, 2011 Senior Airman Gideon L. Connelly, repair and reclamation crew chief, 175th Maintenance Squadron, was involved in a motorcycle accident in Baltimore County with serious damage to his left leg. The doctors told the Maryland Air National Guardsman if he kept his leg, it would leave him

  • JSTARS Guardsmen team with Rebuilding Together

    Five Air National Guardsmen from the 116th Air Control Wing, gave up their Saturday to volunteer with Rebuilding Together Warner Robins performing repair and renovation work for a local low-income household.Rebuilding Together is a national non-profit organization that has been providing critical

  • Sears heroic actions under enemy fire helps fellow members survive attack

    When an explosive ordnance disposal team rolls out for a combat patrol, their objective is to defuse bombs and gather intelligence about the bomb-makers. It's not to engage the enemy. But as New Jersey Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Mike Sears put it, sometimes, there's no choice. Sept. 29, 2012 was