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  • 105th Airlift Wing hosts Wing Readiness Course

    NEWBURGH, N.Y. – Training isn't always easy, especially when that training simulates the high adrenaline environment of a combat situation. Members of the 105th Airlift Wing were able to experience that firsthand as they went through the Wing Readiness Course at Stewart Air National Guard Base.The

  • Artificial Intelligence-Based Battle Management Training Rolled Out

    JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. -- The Western Air Defense Sector rolled out a cutting edge video game like training system, Aug. 26-27, 2021, at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington. The system, called Battle Management Training NEXT (BMTN), provides command and control battle management operators

  • NY Air Guard teams with Brazilian airmen for Exercise Tapio

    WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. - Eighty New York Air National Guard Airmen participated in a 10-day Brazilian Air Force training operation at Campo Grande Brazil in August as part of the State Partnership Program.The 105th Airlift Wing, based at Stewart Air National Guard Base in Newburgh, transported two

  • National Guard supports vulnerable Afghans at military bases

    ARLINGTON, Va. – National Guard Airmen and Soldiers from around the nation are helping support Afghan personnel who are temporarily housed at Department of Defense installations as part of Operation Allies Refuge.The Defense Department, through U.S. Northern Command and at the State Department's

  • New York Air Guard joins NATO search and rescue exercise

    LAJES, Portugal – Fifteen Airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing participated in a NATO search and rescue exercise in the Azores led by the Portuguese Air Force July 27-30.ASAREX 2021 (Advanced Search and Rescue Exercise) included elements from the National Guard, the Coast

  • NY Air Guard helps train Air Force Reserve port specialists

    SCOTIA, N.Y. – The New York Air National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing is hosting two Air Force Reserve Airmen from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base while they complete their hands-on training as aerial port specialists.The Airmen, assigned to the 87th Aerial Port Squadron of the 445th Airlift Wing, are

  • Waiver enables 62-year-old doctor to join New York Air Guard

    F.S. GABRESKI AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. - Dr. David Feldman, a 62-year old New York City gastroenterologist and private pilot, is now also Air National Guard Lt. Col. David Feldman."Joining the military was a lifelong dream," Feldman said. "But it was something I never had time for."Feldman took

  • NY Guard Airmen plant 'Survivor Tree' to commemorate 9/11

    ROME N.Y. – Airmen of the Eastern Air Defense Sector marked the anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center by planting a seedling from a tree that survived the attack outside their headquarters in Rome.The seedling from the 9/11 Memorial and Museum Survivor Tree was planted

  • 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

  • NY National Guard continues staffing COVID vaccination sites

    NEW YORK, N.Y.– New York National Guard Soldiers and Airmen now oversee three vaccination sites formerly run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and active Navy and Air Force personnel.Two sites are in New York City and the other site is in Yonkers in Westchester County.This brings the