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  • 177th Fighter Wing Enhances Readiness at Sentry Aloha Exercise

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - The 177th Fighter Wing of the New Jersey Air National Guard, alongside aviation units from across the United States, participated in Sentry Aloha 24-2 from May 27 to June 14.The exercise, facilitated by the 154th Wing, Hawaii Air National Guard, integrated

  • Pennsylvania Air Guard Enhances Ops at Iron Keystone Exercise

    FORT DRUM, N.Y. – Nearly all Airmen assigned to the Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s three wings participated in Exercise Iron Keystone 2024 across the commonwealth, with more than 90 from the 193rd Special Operations Wing taking part at a simulated forward operating base in northern New York.“Iron

  • South Carolina Airmen Join 2nd Joint Fox EMBER Training

    EASTOVER, S.C. - Eighteen South Carolina Air National Guard Airmen and 44 military personnel from seven states and one territory conducted Emergency Management Battlefield Expeditionary Response training, also known as Fox EMBER, May 31-June 9.The 169th Civil Engineer Squadron’s Emergency Management

  • National Guard Members Test Skills at Cyber Shield 2024

    VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. - Almost 1,000 participants flooded the Virginia National Guard State Military Reservation in Virginia Beach for the longest-running and largest Department of Defense cyber defense exercise May 31 to June 15.Cyber Shield is an annual National Guard event that hosts National Guard

  • Alaska Air Guard Rescue Triad Demonstrates Capabilities

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska - Alaska Air National Guardsmen from the 176th Wing’s 210th, 211th and 212th Rescue Squadrons conducted a rescue capabilities exercise June 25.The training at Malemute Drop Zone, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, showcased search and rescue, high-altitude

  • F-15 EX Eagle II Makes Debut Landing at Portland Base

    PORTLAND, Ore. - Don’t mess this up. Those words raced through 142nd Wing fighter pilot Maj. Calvin Conner’s head as he landed the first F-15EX Eagle II at Portland Air National Guard base June 5.The day was significant for Conner, the entire base and Portland’s neighboring community. The arrival of

  • Guam National Guard Trains with Armed Forces of Philippines

    MACTAN, Philippines - The Guam National Guard and the Armed Forces of the Philippines, partners in the State Partnership Program, conducted a mass-casualty field training exercise June 6-10.After four days of classroom learning, about 100 troops from the Philippine Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines

  • Maintainers, special operations troops team up, innovate training

    ALPENA, MI -- Conversation abruptly stopped as ten Air National Guardsmen looked skyward while two A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft dropped simulated bombs and fired Gatling guns with a familiar, “BRRT,” at the Grayling Air Gunnery Range on May 21, 2024. The Airmen, members of the 127th Wing’s agile

  • Junior Aviators tour 185th

    Sioux City, Iowa -- A group of aspiring aviators are participating in a Jr. Pilot Summer Camp hosted by the MidAmerica Museum of Aviation at the Sioux City, Iowa airport this week. As part of the activities the group also toured the nearby Iowa Air National Guard facility on Friday.During their