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  • Airman crosses four decade threshold while deployed to the 332nd AEW

    332nd AIR EXPEDITIONARY WING  -- Looking back 40 years is something many of us can do, however it’s a far more select group that can look back over a 40-year career. Chief Master Sgt. David R. Purtee enlisted in the U.S. Air Force April 25, 1981, at 17 years-of-age, from his hometown of Lancaster,

  • Airmen recognized on National Day of the Deployed

    SWANTON, Ohio – No longer considered a strategic reserve, today’s National Guard is a fully operational force of nearly 450,000 Citizen-Airmen and Citizen-Soldiers who live, work and serve in communities throughout the country. Of those 450,000 men and women serving in the National Guard,

  • Flying in their father's footsteps

    COLUMBUS, Ohio – Cody Notestine's phone rang. It was the call he had been waiting for: he had been selected to become a KC-135 pilot at the 121st Air Refueling Wing. Before he got off the phone, he was told the other selectee would be called in 10 minutes. His twin brother, Nick, was hoping to get

  • Ohio Air Guard members provide lifesaving aid

    MANSFIELD, Ohio – Staff Sgts. Michael Mauldin and Joshua Prater, both assigned to fire protection at the 179th Airlift Wing, provided lifesaving aid to a victim of a motor vehicle accident Sept. 16. Prater was driving to work when he saw a motorcycle that was hit by a truck. "I saw a person laying

  • 180th FW partners with the Arms Forces to raise awareness

    The 180th Fighter Wing, Ohio Air National Guard, partnered with The Arms Forces to host the I Believe I Can Fly 5k, April 9, 2017, at the Toledo Express Airport in Swanton, Ohio. More than 250 runners participated in the race, focused on raising awareness for veterans and current military members