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  • Meet the 148th Fighter Wing’s ‘Aces of the ASVAB’

    Duluth, MN -- The perfect score. What does that mean? What does it look like? I recently became aware of an Airman who scored a perfect 99 on Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery, or ASVAB test. I was intrigued. When discussing this topic with a colleague, I learned there was another Airmen

  • Florida Guard engineers modernize Navy airfield

    JACKSONVILLE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, FL -- Airmen of the 202nd Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer, known as the RED HORSE, are modernizing the airfield ramp at Naval Air Station Jacksonville to ensure taxiway concrete can withstand the weight of the U.S. Navy’s

  • 137th SOW hosts the ANG command chief

    WILL ROGERS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Okla. -- U.S. Air National Guard Command Chief Master Sgt. Maurice L. Williams visited the 137th Special Operations Wing (SOW) at Will Rogers Air National Guard Base, Oklahoma City, Feb. 5, 2023.Williams holds the highest level of enlisted leadership for the ANG

  • New CLEP testing facility broadens horizons for 142nd Wing Airmen

    PORTLAND, Ore. -- Big opportunities are coming to the Airmen of the 142nd Wing at Portland Air National Guard (PANG) Base.Wing leadership and the base education center have worked hard over the past two years to make a CLEP (College Level Examination Program) testing center available to Airmen

  • ANG Command Chief visits 144th FW

    FRESNO AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Calif. -- Chief Master Sgt. Maurice Williams, Air National Guard command chief, visited the Airmen of the 144th Fighter Wing Jan. 8, 2023, at the Fresno Air National Guard Base, Calif.Williams came to the base to view the mission up-close, discuss the National Defense

  • Iowa ANG marks 20-year milestone with souped-up tanker

    Sioux City, Iowa -- “Change” in aviation has been the one constant since the Wright Flyer made its maiden voyage 120 years ago this year. A short twenty years after that first fight, two U.S. Army Air Service airplanes made history with the first air-to-air refueling.As air refueling celebrates its

  • AESA Radar modernizes Bulldog F-16s for the next generation of airpower

    DULUTH, Minn. -- Nine Block 50 F-16CM Fighting Falcons from the 148th Fighter Wing received the new active electronical scanned array (AESA) radar that allows pilots to "find targets in the air and on the ground more easily," said Maj. Michael Kuzmuk, Chief of Wing Weapons for the 148th Fighter