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  • Practice makes perfect: Airmen attend Airman Leadership School

    Mountain Home Air Force Base, ID — It’s common for people to be hired for the first time in their teenage years. For some it is working a counter at a cashier’s desk. For others, a tall chair overlooking a swimming pool. For less than 1% of the U.S. population, it is getting off a military bus and

  • LRS helps establish economic hub at Little Rock AFB

    LITTLE ROCK AIR FORCE BASE, Ark. -- Department of Defense resources are a hot commodity. With budget restrictions and changes, the need to utilize resources smartly is important more now than ever. Recently, members of the 189th Logistics Readiness Squadron partnered with active duty and other Guard

  • Exercise Prepares Virginia Guard’s 34th CST for Evaluation

    VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – Virginia National Guard Soldiers and Airmen assigned to the 34th Civil Support Team participated in collective lanes training Jan. 23-27.  “This is a ‘check on learning’ conducted by Army North and our evaluation team to provide us a snapshot of where we’re at, what we need to

  • 459th medical units, SFS, RegAF, Guard, Navy team for joint training exercise

    JOINT BASE ANDREWS, Md. -- The 459th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron recently conducted a local C-130T Aeromedical Evacuation static training mission here in conjunction with the Fleet Logistics Support Squadron 53 "Capital Express" Naval Air Facility, Washington, D.C., the 459th Aeromedical Staging

  • 103rd Medical Group partners with Hartford Hospital

    HARTFORD, CT -- The 103rd Medical Group, Connecticut Air National Guard has partnered with Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Connecticut for annual medical training.Air National Guard medics and nurses are required to receive at least 40 hours of training a year at a level I or II trauma center.

  • Farewell tour: Dutch finish overwater F-16 training over Florida coast

    NAVAL AIR STATION KEY WEST, Fla. (AFNS) -- U.S. Airmen and Royal Netherlands Air Force personnel from Morris Air National Guard Base, Arizona, traveled to Naval Air Station Key West wrapping up a two week-training event in May with the final Dutch B-Course student pilots. This temporary duty

  • Otis Hosts First Ever Joint Force Additional Duty First Sergeant Course

    OTIS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. -- Guardians and Airmen from the 102nd Intelligence Wing, 104th Fighter Wing, 105th Airlift Wing and the 6th Space Warning Squadron attended Otis’ first ever Joint Additional Duty First Sergeant Course on Otis Air National Guard Base, Massachusetts, May 10-12,

  • Contingency response dominates ACE exercise during Southern Strike

    AVON PARK AUXILIARY AIRFIELD, Fla. (AFNS) -- An F-16 Fighting Falcon escorts a C-17 Globemaster III into a simulated austere environment. The engines are running, the personnel deplane the C-17, cargo is downloaded, the airfield is prepped for more aircraft to land, and within minutes, a security

  • 960 CW hosts total-force additional-duty first sergeant symposium

    JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-LACKLAND, TX -- The 960th Cyberspace Wing First Sergeants’ Council organized and hosted a total-force additional-duty first sergeant symposium at the Robert D. Gaylor NCO Academy here, March 7-10.The inaugural symposium offered training for 44 in-person and 11 virtual Reserve,

  • 176th Maintenance Group opens Virtual Reality Training Lab

    JOINT BASE ELMENDORF-RICHARDSON, Alaska – The 176th Maintenance Group opened its innovative Virtual Reality Training Lab in December, giving maintenance Airmen an interactive way to familiarize themselves with maintenance processes without a physical airframe.The 176th MXG used squadron innovation