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  • January snow keeps Iowa Air Guard up at night

    SIOUX CITY AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Iowa -- Civil Engineers with the Iowa Air National Guard are working overtime clearing snow to ensure air operations continue at the 185th Air Refueling Wing.

  • Sioux City area graduates honored with military stoles

    Sioux City, Iowa -- A group of high school seniors who are anxiously anticipating graduating in the coming days gathered for special recognition event at the Iowa Air National Guard in Sioux City, Iowa this week.The Sioux City Chamber of Commerce unveiled military service related graduation stoles

  • Iowa ANG Supports Al Dhafra Air Base Mission

    Al Dhafra, United Arab Emirates -- More than a dozen Citizen-Airmen from the Iowa Air National Guard are deployed to the Middle East, serving with the 380th Air Expeditionary Wing at Al Dhafra Air Base in the United Arab Emirates.The Iowa ANG Airmen are all from the 185th Air Refueling Wing based at

  • Phantom 109 a KC-135 ghost story

    Sioux City, Iowa -- This story is about how a ghost story led to some pretty cool nose art on a U.S. Air Force KC-135. The ghoulish nose art on tail number 58-0109 shows a boney fingered Phantom pointing as if he is claiming his next victim. The dark character is shown sitting on a KC-135 boom wing

  • National Guard Bureau Chief visits Sioux City ANG Base

    SIOUX CITY, Iowa – For the first time in the history of the 185th Air Refueling Wing a sitting member of the Joint Chiefs visited the Iowa Air National Guard facility in Sioux City this week. The National Guard Chief, General Daniel R. Hokanson was visiting the Iowa Air Guard unit at the invitation

  • U.S. Air National Guard units support 2021 Formidable Shield exercise

    Prestwick, Scotland, United Kingdom -- U.S. Air National Guard units from Iowa, Maine and Ohio are in the United Kingdom this week participating in multinational missile defense exercise Formidable Shield 2021.“Formidable Shield” is a biennial, live-fire exercise designed to test participating

  • Jacobsmeier says yes to state activation call for COVID-19

    Iowa Air National Guard Lt. Colonel Debbie Jacobsmeier is working as the Officer in Charge of Region 3, Regional Medical Coordination Center site in Sioux City, Iowa. Jacobsmeier is a traditional guard member, assigned to the 185th Air Refueling Wing clinic in Sioux City, Iowa. Jacobsmeier

  • Team Iowa Guard tackles Relay Iowa, the world’s longest relay

    The Iowa National Guard is one of 40 teams from around the nation participating in Relay Iowa, this weekend. The world’s longest non-stop relay is a 336 mile running event that begins on the banks of the Missouri River in Sioux City on Iowa’s western border and ends in Dubuque on the Mississippi

  • Iowa Guard officer, Faiferlick pens book on bullying

    Iowa Air National Guard Lt. Col. Justin Faiferlick recently published a book titled “Battle Tested, how to awaken your inner confidence and stand up to bullying,” Faiferlick, works as the director of test at the Iowa Air Guard unit in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He is a 6th degree Master in Taekwondo as well