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  • Five ANG Wings Train at Operation Hoodoo Sea

    HOMESTEAD AIR RESERVE BASE, Fla. - Five Air National Guard wings are conducting agile combat training during Operation Hoodoo Sea along the southeast U.S. coast.The exercise, led by the Virginia ANG, seeks to test and validate minimum force elements using multi-capable Airmen executing functions

  • Western Air Defense Sector Conducts Exercise at Oregon Beach

    SUNSET BEACH, Ore. - For the past month, Airmen from the Western Air Defense Sector’s 225th Air Defense Squadron have been innovating mobile tactical command and control planning and exercises to inch closer to a vision of agile combat employment to protect the homeland.On Apr. 25, they continued

  • Joint, International Southern Strike 2023 Exercise Wraps Up

    GULFPORT, Miss. – U.S. military members across every branch of service trained with international forces on Mississippi’s coast for two weeks during Exercise Southern Strike 2023, hosted by the Mississippi National Guard.“Southern Strike is an effective way for National Guard and Reserve as well as

  • Mississippi Guard Hosts Southern Strike Exercise

    GULFPORT, Miss. – One of the U.S. Air Force’s newest concepts, Agile Combat Employment, is the focus of the Southern Strike 2023 exercise at the Gulfport Combat Readiness Training Center.Approximately 2,000 U.S. military service members are participating in the joint international combat exercise

  • Hawaii, Arizona Air Guard Conduct Readiness Training

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii - Hawaii and Arizona Air National Guard members completed Home Station Readiness Training at Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam on April 7.The weeklong training prepared Airmen to stand up bare bases and build proficiency for contingency operations.Seventy members

  • Air Force Chief of Staff Visits NY ANG

    Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., along with his wife, Sharene Brown, visited Stewart Air National Guard Base for a C-17 Globemaster III dedication, medal decoration ceremony and an all-call with Airmen, April 1, 2023.During Brown’s all-call with the Airmen of the 105th AW, he took this

  • Vermont's Green Mountain Boys Demonstrate Agility, Readiness

    SOUTH BURLINGTON, Vt. - The Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing tested its ability to deploy and remain operational during a simulated attack on its base the first week of April.During the exercise scenario at the South Burlington Air National Guard base, buildings lost power,

  • AIM-HI Connects Innovators, Senior Military Leaders

    WASHINGTON - Academia Industry Military-Hybrid Innovations hosted a one-day capstone pitch event where teams presented solutions for emerging national defense problems to senior military leaders March 31.“Since its inception in 2020, 24 AIM-HI teams consisting of more than 100 service members have

  • 130th Airlift Wing practices ACE during Flare 2023

    CHARLESTON, W.Va. - More than 400 members of the 130th Airlift Wing conducted a weeklong Fly Away Readiness Exercise at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport, Mississippi.FLARE is a commander-directed readiness exercise demonstrating units’ ability to deploy using the Agile Combat

  • 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