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Air National Guard

June 6, 2022
Land at your own risk: Air Guardsmen honored for valor during Operation Allies Refuge

NEWBURGH, N.Y. – Flying into a “hornet’s nest” is how one of the crew members of Reach 824 described the scene as their C-17 Globemaster military transport aircraft approached Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul, Afghanistan, as Taliban forces took the capital city last summer. The crew of
Nov. 9, 2020
Michigan Air Guard pilot awarded Distinguished Flying Cross

SELFRIDGE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mich. – Air Force Secretary Barbara M. Barrett presented Maj. Brett DeVries, a pilot with the 107th Fighter Squadron, the Distinguished Flying Cross Nov. 6 for extraordinary flight achievement.“The Distinguished Flying Cross is America’s oldest military aviation
Aug. 12, 2019
CSAF bestows Distinguished Flying Cross on Kentucky Air Guardsman

Hourigan distinguished himself by extraordinary achievement while serving as commander of a C-130 Hercules aircraft on July 15, 2016, narrowly recovering the aircraft from a potentially fatal descent following a catastrophic mechanical failure.