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  • Operation Healthy Tennessee: Where Readiness Meets Relief

    EVENSVILLE, Tenn. - More than 200 service members from the U.S. Air Force, Air National Guard, U.S. Army Reserve, U.S. Navy Reserve and U.S. Air Force Reserve participated in Operation Healthy Tennessee, part of the Department of Defense’s Innovative Readiness Training, or IRT, program.During the

  • Indiana Guard Airman Honored for Lifesaving Efforts

    TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - Indiana National Guard Technical Sgt. Bram Sanders, a medic from the 181st Medical Group, was honored July 10 for his lifesaving response to a plane crash at the Terre Haute Regional Airport.Indiana State Fire Marshal Steve Jones presented Sanders, who is assigned to the 19th

  • Nordhaus, Raines see Heroism, Partnerships in Central Texas

    KERRVILLE, Texas – Early on July 4, almost 30 inches of rain fell within hours across Central Texas’s Hill Country, surging the Guadalupe River and triggering catastrophic flash flooding.Within hours, Texas National Guard members sprang into action, launching search and rescue operations alongside

  • Nevada Air Guard Wing Assists in Firefighting Efforts

    RENO, Nev. – U.S. Northern Command has activated two Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System Aircraft, one from the Nevada Air National Guard’s 152nd Airlift Wing out of Reno, Nevada, and one from the 146th Airlift Wing out of Channel Islands Air National Guard Station in California.The two C-130

  • Rescue Squadrons Unite and Strengthen Interoperability During REFORPAC

    MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan – Airmen of the Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) Air Rescue Wing, the U.S. Air National Guard 102nd Rescue Squadron, and the 130th Rescue Squadron came together for a cross-unit static display and capability exchange during exercise Resolute Force Pacific (REFORPAC) 2025

  • N.Y. Army, Air Guard Partner for Medical Evacuation Exercise

    NEWBURGH, N.Y. — New York Army and Air National Guard medical personnel teamed up with their active component Army counterparts from West Point’s Keller Army Community Hospital for a three-day exercise that tested all parts of the medical evacuation system.Seventy-five Soldiers and Airmen —from the

  • Ohio Guard Participates in Operation Healthy Tennessee 2025

    EVENSVILLE, Tenn. — Ohio Air National Guard members arrived July 9 in Tennessee to participate in Operation Healthy Tennessee, an initiative that offers the public no-cost medical, dental, optometry, nutritional education, counseling and veterinary services from credentialed medical

  • REFORPAC 2025: US Air Force executes unprecedented surge into Pacific theater

    JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii (AFNS) - Over the last week, U.S. Pacific Air Forces accomplished a rapid, mass deployment and reception of personnel, equipment and aircraft to multiple locations in the Indo-Pacific theater of operations for Exercise Resolute Force Pacific 2025.“We’ve seen