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  • West Virginia Guard, Qatar Conduct Key Leader SPP Exchange

    DOHA, Qatar - West Virginia National Guard and Qatari military leaders met in Doha March 14-16 in a State Partnership Program engagement.Participants included Maj. Gen. Bill Crane, adjutant general; Command Sgt. Maj. Dusty Jones, senior enlisted leader; Col. Brian Abraham, chief of the joint staff;

  • West Virginia Guard CST Responds to Ohio Train Derailment

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. – The West Virginia National Guard’s 35th Civil Support Team deployed to East Palestine, Ohio, to help first responders respond to the Feb. 3 derailment of a train containing hazardous materials.The Ohio National Guard contacted the WVNG J3 Joint Operations Center at about noon

  • Guard Continues Domestic, Global Missions in a Busy 2022

    ARLINGTON, Va. - The National Guard’s footprint on domestic and international events continued in 2022, highlighting its transformation from a Cold War strategic reserve to the combat reserve of the Army and the Air Force. “People don’t realize just how large the National Guard is,” said Army Gen.

  • 167th Operations Group holds mobility rodeo event

    MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- “Obtaining additional air transport mobility – and obtaining it now – will better assure the ability of our conventional forces to respond, with discrimination and speed, to any problem at any spot on the globe at any moment’s notice,” said President John F. Kennedy during his

  • West Virginia National Guard, Peru Establish Priorities for Partnership

    LIMA, Peru – West Virginia National Guard senior leaders and members of the State Partnership Program met with Peruvian military leadership Aug. 22-24 to develop a plan for future engagements.Maj. Gen. Bill Crane, adjutant general; Command Sgt. Maj. Dusty Jones, senior enlisted leader; the SPP team

  • New stands aid aircraft inspections and maintenance

    MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- A set of newly-manufactured maintenance stands were recently delivered to the 167th Maintenance Group and set up in the Home Station Check (HSC) aircraft hangar at Shepherd Field, Martinsburg, West Virginia.The HSC maintenance stands were designed and engineered based on inputs

  • Kentucky Air National Guard Rescues Flood Victims

    HAZARD, Ky. – Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Special Tactics Squadron rescued 19 stranded residents and two dogs after historic flooding that claimed at least 28 lives in Eastern Kentucky.The Airmen, assisted by Callie, the only certified search-and-rescue canine in the U.S.

  • National Guard Assists with Flood Rescue in Kentucky

    ARLINGTON, Va. – The Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia National Guard deployed aircraft and troops to Eastern Kentucky to help search for and rescue victims of the severe flash flooding caused by heavy rainfall.Two Kentucky National Guard medevac crews from DET 1 C/2-238th AVN - Wildcat DUSTOFF

  • 167th Airlift Wing Airman Spotlight August 2022

    MARTINSBURG, W.Va. -- Staff Sgt. Kyle Leuschen is a loadmaster for the 167th Airlift Squadron and the 167th Airlift Wing’s Airman Spotlight for July 2022.As a loadmaster Staff Sgt. Leuschen was responsible for properly loading, securing and escorting cargo and passengers on the wing’s C-17