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  • 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

  • NY Guard Space ops Experts Mentor at Space Command Exercise

    VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. – The Global Sentinel exercise, which began in 2014 with seven nations, allows U.S. allies to practice the skills to ensure that satellites used by their militaries for communications, navigation and reconnaissance keep functioning, according to U.S. Space

  • New York Air National Guard Participates in Future Flag

    NIAGARA FALLS AIR RESERVE BASE, N.Y., – The New York Air National Guard’s 274th Air Support Operations Squadron, part of the 107th Attack Wing, participated in a training operation headed by the Air Force Research Lab in Upstate N.Y., Aug. 6-7.Their training played a part in a larger series of

  • Always at the Ready, New York Air Guardsmen Save a Life

    SYRACUSE, N.Y. - A dozen New York Air National Guard Airmen are credited with helping save a civilian’s life on Aug. 9 while attending a military conference at Syracuse University.The man appeared to suffer from a grand mal seizure-a loss of consciousness and muscle contractions- and a head injury

  • 109th Airlift Wing Hosts German Air Force Officer

    SCOTIA, N.Y. – The New York National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing hosted a German Air Force officer in June as part of the Military Reserve Exchange Program.MREP enables Guard and Reserve Airmen and Soldiers, both officers and enlisted, to train with select allied nations. It helps participants