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  • New York National Guard, Danish Military Plan Joint Training

    LATHAM, N.Y. - The New York National Guard and the Danish military command responsible for patrolling Greenland plan to conduct joint training, key leader discussions and exchanges in 2024 and 2025.The immediate goal for the partnership, initialed during a meeting at New York National Guard

  • New York Air Guard Supports Canadian Forces’ Arctic Exercise

    RESOLUTE, Nunavut, Canada - The New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing and 105th Airlift Wing are partnering with the Vermont Army National Guard and the Canadian Forces to support Exercise Guerrier Nordique 2023 in the Canadian Arctic.The 109th Airlift Wing, based at Stratton Air National

  • NY Guard trains on frozen lake to prep for polar missions

    GREAT SACANDAGA LAKE, N.Y. – Twenty Airmen assigned to the New York National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing are honing their skills as members of the Polar Camp Ski-way Team (PCST) on the Great Sacandaga Lake at the southern edge of Adirondack Park Feb. 15-17.These Airmen are trained in remote polar

  • Secretary of state, Greenland premier tour NYNG LC-130

    KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland – The New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing gave Greenland Premier Múte Bourup Egede and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken a close-up look at one of the wing’s LC-130s, which are critical to conducting climate research on the Greenland Ice Cap.Blinken was in

  • SERE specialists conquer the Arctic

    Wind gusts as high as 50 mph, wind chills dropping to minus 60 degrees Fahrenheit, and a place where the sun does not rise above the horizon for 65 consecutive days. Arctic survival training is not for the faint of heart however for the survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialists, it is a

  • 109th AW joins advanced battle management systems exercise

    SCOTIA, N.Y. – Thirty members of the New York Air National Guard from the 109th Airlift Wing flew two LC-130H “Skibirds” to Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas to participate in a nationwide exercise that tested the United States’ digital Advanced Battle Management System. The week-long exercise

  • 109th Airlift Wing team builds ski landing area in Arctic

    “Creatio Ex Nihilo” or “Something From Nothing” is the motto of the 109th Airlift Wing’s expeditionary ski-way team; a group of airmen from various units throughout the wing who are blazing trail forward in the realm of operational capabilities in the Arctic.Their mission is to deploy to remote