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  • Air Force Week fuels up, takes flight in Philadelphia

    On a typical Friday afternoon Gary Feldman can be found moving from meeting to meeting, visiting schools or maybe talking with parents. But the Philadelphia School District regional support case manager was some place entirely different when a call came in around 2 p.m. today. "Yeah, I can't talk

  • RED HORSE members make difference on the border

    Dusty, drug infested, deadly and downright desolate areas are just some of the daily obstacles faced by U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers patrolling nearly 2,000 miles of the U.S. and Mexico border. Vast stretches of desert canyon, rocky terrain, switchback roads and hairpin turns make for

  • Air National Guard unit earns 'Star' rating

    Occupational Health and Safety Administration officials announced April 30 the Air National Guard's 148th Fighter Wing earned the prestigious Voluntary Protection Program Star status. The 148th FW from Duluth is the first unit in the Air Force to earn the VPP Star rating, which demonstrates a

  • Chief sets course for June's Partnership workshop in Europe

    The chief of the National Guard Bureau hosted an informal dinner with a taste of the American West for defense attachés from Southeastern European countries at his official home beside the Potomac River on the last evening in April. LTG H Steven Blum presented the foreign officers with the agenda

  • Crew chief honored for selfless act of heroism

    On any given morning at Tucson International Airport the skies are clear, there's a view of the mountains, rows of F-16s wait for the morning "go," and a life-saving hero prepares his jet for flight. In April, the Coast Guard honored Staff Sgt. Jay Rosenberry, an F-16 crew chief here, for saving the

  • National Guard members join 'Rebuilding Day' projects

    At least 60 Airmen, Soldiers and civilians with the Air and Army National Guard brought Christmas early to a disabled Maryland resident here Saturday, April 26 by repairing her home on "National Rebuilding Day." Members of the National Guard Bureau, the Air Guard Readiness Center and the District of

  • Iron Flow program concludes at Kadena

    With the departure of the final three F-15C Eagles from Kadena Air Base April 23 to Air National Guard units in the United States, the 18th Wing concluded Kadena AB's role in the Pacific Air Forces Iron Flow program. Begun in 2005, the Iron Flow program was a process to exchange Kadena's aging F-15

  • Air Guard EMEDS team breaks new ground in Vigilant Guard

    An Air National Guard Expeditionary Medical Support (EMEDS) team will pioneer new territory in military medical training and education as part of Vigilant Guard-South Carolina, one of the largest training exercises in the history of the National Guard. The EMEDS team, comprised of 62 doctors, nurses

  • New mission, new chapter unfolds at Willow Grove

    The most coveted uniform item at the 111th Fighter Wing is no longer the new Airman Battle Uniform, it's a red cap. On April 5, more than 100 guardsmen sported the red caps for the first time and cheerfully yelled "to the HORSE" during the 201st RED HORSE Squadron, Det. 1 activation ceremony at

  • NEADS ANG members return after deployment to Kyrgyzstan

    The Northeast Air Defense Sector doesn't deploy people, right? Wrong. In the unit's largest deployment ever, nearly 30 security force members deployed on a six-month tour to Manas Air Base, located in Kyrgyzstan, in September 2007. The deployment also involved Guard units in six other states, which