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  • Multi-Capable Airmen, the Future of the 126 ARW

    SCOTT AIR FORCE BASE, Ill. -- The 126th Maintenance Group, assigned to the Illinois Air National Guard, earned their seventh top mission capability rating for the U.S. Air Force’s KC-135 Stratotanker fleet and now aims for greater heights by implementing the Air Force’s Agile Combat Employment

  • Illinois Air Guard Civil Engineers help Cherokee Nation Veterans

    TAHLEQUAH, Okla. - Illinois Air National Guard troops are putting their skills to work in another nation, building homes for U.S. military veterans.The 126th Civil Engineer Squadron is building homes for Cherokee Nation veterans in Oklahoma as part of a continuing Innovative Readiness Training

  • Air Force museum exhibit highlights women's achievements

    SPRINGFIELD, Ill. – Illinois Air National Guard Capt. Jennifer Weitekamp did not set out to be a trailblazer with her military service. Still, when then-Senior Airman Jennifer Donaldson graduated from the Air National Guard's pilot Counter Sniper School April 14, 2001, she became just that – a

  • Illinois Air Guard C-130s join the fight against COVID-19

    EUGENE, Ore. – What could have been a three-day trek across 2,150 miles of interstate highway was shortened to overnight delivery by Air National Guard C-130H Hercules aircraft joining Illinois’ fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.Two aircrews assigned to the 182nd Airlift Wing departed their Peoria

  • Illinois Guard helps build care facility at McCormick Place

    CHICAGO – A team of 60 members of the Illinois Air National Guard is helping build an alternate care facility at the sprawling McCormick Place to handle a potential surge of patients during the COVID-19 pandemic.Gov. J.B. Pritzker described the facility as an intervention for people in the Chicago