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  • Deployed Guard unit honors Tuskegee Airman on 100th birthday

    CAMP ARIFJAN, Kuwait – Sgt. Victor Butler, the last known surviving member of the Tuskegee Airmen, celebrates his 100th birthday May 21. His only request was for birthday cards, and the Alabama National Guard’s 135th Expeditionary Sustainment Command responded.The 135th ESC, deployed to Kuwait as

  • Tuskegee ties to PA Air Guard bind Black history, military

    HORSHAM, Pa. – Tuskegee Airmen, the legendary first Black U.S. military aviators, are renowned for their remarkable contribution to the country’s successes in World War II – work that led to desegregating the armed forces and strengthening the Pennsylvania Air National Guard.Expected to fail during