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  • New York Air Guardsman Completes Brazil Jungle Training

    MANAS, Brazil - For New York Air National Guard Tech Sgt. Jeremy Miter, adapting to the heat and humidity of the Amazon basin was the toughest part of the six weeks he spent at Brazil’s jungle warfare school from the end of September until mid-November.“Once we got into the jungle, it was a whole

  • National Guard Chief Visits New York’s 106th Rescue Wing

    WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. – The National Guard’s top officer, Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, spent Nov. 5 at Gabreski Air National Guard Base with 106th Rescue Wing Airmen.Hokanson flew on an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter to observe rescue scenarios, lunched with some

  • Arizona Guard Unit Tests Readiness in ANG Flyaway Exercise

    MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII – Airmen from the 161st Air Refueling Wing conducted the Air National Guard’s first multiday flyaway readiness exercise by an air refueling wing Oct. 12-17 to demonstrate the Air Force’s Agile Combat Employment priority.The ACE concept uses multicapable Airmen to maintain,

  • NY Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing Supports Antarctic Research

    STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. - The New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing launched the first of five LC-130 “Skibird” aircraft to Antarctica Oct. 19 to support National Science Foundation research.The LC-130 version of the C-130 Hercules is the largest aircraft in the world able

  • New York Air Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing Tests new LC-130 Engine

    STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. - The New York Air Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing flew a ski-equipped LC-130 outfitted with more powerful engines for the first time during a test flight Oct. 11.Seven Airmen conducted a test flight of an LC-130 equipped with new NP2000 T56-A-15A turboprop 3.5

  • NY Guard, Air Force Research Lab Partner on air war Planning

    SYRACUSE, N.Y. – New York National Guard Airmen specializing in planning and directing air campaigns will play a key role in Air Force efforts to develop new computer systems to make that planning more efficient.Under an agreement with the Air Force Research Laboratory in Rome, New York — also known

  • NY 106th Rescue Wing Airmen Played Role in Thai Cave Rescue

    NEW YORK – Wearing shorts and a T-shirt, with stubble on his chin, Tech. Sgt. Jamie Brisbin, a pararescueman now assigned to the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing, remembers arriving in Okinawa, Japan, and boarding a waiting C-130 to head to a flooded cave in Thailand June 27, 2018.As

  • New York Air Guard’s 109th Air Wing Conducts ‘Elephant Walk’

    STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. – Airmen assigned to the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing made history with the unit’s first “elephant walk” Sept. 10.Nine of the wing’s aircraft taxied down the runway in intervals and later took off to fly training missions around the

  • 104th Fighter Squadron Lends Expertise to Exercise Tapio

    CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil – Pilots from the 104th Fighter Squadron, Maryland Air National Guard, recently traveled to the Campo Grande Air Force Base in the largest city in the Mato Grosso de Sul state to help the New York Air National Guard train with its partner, Brazil.Exercise Tapio is a Brazilian

  • New York Air Guard-Brazil Tactical Demo Caps Exercise Tapio

    CAMPO GRANDE, Brazil – Two weeks of New York Air National Guard joint training with the Brazilian Air Force climaxed with a demonstration mission in front of Brazilian and American leaders Aug. 29.One hundred New York Air National Guard members participated in Brazil’s Exercise Tapio Aug. 20-30.The