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  • Defense leaders call California Guardswoman a 'role model'

    Department of Defense leaders last night described a California Air National Guard medical officer as a "role model" in the place where the nation honors its best and brightest women in military service. Air Force Lt. Col. Susan Pangelinan from the California Air National Guard was awarded a DoD

  • Gates pays respects to fallen Guardsmen at Dover

    U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates traveled to Dover Air Force Base, Del., last night to pay his respects to four servicemembers killed recently in Afghanistan, a senior Pentagon official said here today. Gates "wanted to personally honor the sacrifice" of the three Soldiers and one Airman who

  • Air Guard captain mentors teens in Senate Youth program

    Students participating in the U.S. Senate Youth Program recently toured government buildings including the Pentagon, met their elected representatives and learned about the foundations of democracy. They also became personally acquainted with a defender of this democratic process: a

  • ANG TEC Welcomes New Commander

    The I.G. Brown Air National Guard Training and Education Center held a change of command ceremony on its campus at Wilson Hall here, March 13. Col. Richard B. Howard assumed command of the center in a ceremony presided over by Lt. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III, the director of the Air National Guard.

  • Uncommon female chaplains serve country, creator

    It sounds like the start of a joke. Four female ministers - an Episcopalian, a Unitarian Universalist, a Southern Baptist and an African Methodist Episcopal - all join the military .... But there's no punch line here, just four strong-willed pioneers, who work in a career field with few others of

  • Air Guard engineers prepare for involuntary deployment

    Air National Guard civil engineer squadrons manned by hundreds of construction and repair experts will involuntary deploy overseas in historic numbers and scope during the next 24 months, senior Air Guard officials confirmed here recently. The mobilizations involve nearly one-eighth of the Air

  • Wyatt names new ANG deputy director

    A new deputy director of the Air National Guard was announced by Lt. Gen. Bud Wyatt, the director of the Air National Guard today. Maj. Gen. Patrick J. Moisio, an Arizona Guardsman, will succeed Brig. Gen. Stanley Clarke III, who took a position as the military assistant to the Air Force Deputy

  • Director: Air Guard attracts cyberforce for DoD

    The Air National Guard can attract talent other components find hard to reach, a senior Guard official said Feb. 27 at the Air Force Association's 25th Annual Air Warfare Symposium and Technology Exposition. It's hard for the armed forces to compete with the private-sector salaries paid to computer

  • McKinley visits Guardmembers during CENTCOM trip

    The National Guard's first four-star general visited with citizen-Soldiers and -Airmen serving in Afghanistan, Iraq and Kuwait this week in dozens of formal briefings, town hall meetings and tours to "gauge their thoughts" about the missions they are performing. "I feel it's important to visit the

  • Army, Air Guard at full strength, directors tell Congress

    The Army National Guard is over strength and the Air National Guard has met its end strength for the first time since 2002, the directors told Congress on Tuesday. "This is a new era for us," said Lt. Gen. Clyde Vaughn, the director of the Army National Guard. "We've never been in this position with