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New York Air Guard Supports Canadian Forces’ Arctic Exercise
March 1, 2023
Airmen from the 109th Airlift Wing’s Polar Camp Skiway Team and members from the 440 Transport Squadron, Royal Canadian Armed Forces, load equipment and fuel into a Twin Otter aircraft at Resolute Bay, Nunavut, Canada, Feb. 27, 2023, to prepare for Exercise Guerrier Nordique. The Vermont National Guard is also participating in the exercise.
177th Fighter Wing Hosts Integrated Combat Turnaround Training
February 27, 2023
U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Matthew Willard, right, with the 157 Logistics Readiness Squadron, Pease Air National Guard Base, New Hampshire, is instructed how to perform a hot-pit refuel of an F-16C+ Fighting Falcon by Tech. Sgt. Charles A. Zingrone Jr., 177th Logistics Readiness Squadron Fuels Management Flight fuels information service center section chief, during Integrated Combat Turnaround training Feb. 17, 2023, at the 177th Fighter Wing, Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey.
Wisconsin Air Guard Meeting Deployment Challenges in Guam
February 27, 2023
Maj. Gen. Paul Knapp, third from left, Wisconsin’s adjutant general, and Capt. Mark Gerasimov, Knapp’s aide de camp, second from right, with deployed members of the Wisconsin Air National Guard’s 128th Air Refueling Wing at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam Feb. 3, 2023. The deployed Airmen are supporting the 506th Expeditionary Air Refueling Group, which provides the aerial refueling and airlift capabilities that support critical U.S. Indo-Pacific Command missions.
Vermont Army Guard Leads Training Exercise in Arctic Circle
February 27, 2023
An advance team of Soldiers and Airmen arrive in the Arctic to prepare for Guerrier Nordique. The Artctic Circle exercise in March 2023 will include Soldiers from the Vermont, Utah, Connecticut and New Hampshire National Guard, the New York Air National Guard, the National Guard Bureau, the 11th Airborne Division, and the 34th and 35th Canadian Brigade Group in Quebec province.
175th Wing Sharpens CSAR Skills During Sunshine Rescue
February 24, 2023
A U.S. Air Force crew chief from the 175th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, Maryland Air National Guard, guides an A-10C Thunderbolt II aircraft on the flight line at Hunter Army Airfield, Georgia, Jan. 25, 2023, to support exercise Sunshine Rescue. The goal of the exercise is to execute traditional Combat Search and Rescue capabilities with forward-edge ground force tactics, techniques and procedures using advanced command and control technologies.
US, Senegal launch medical exercise in Thies
February 24, 2023
U.S. Army and Air Force medical professionals with the Vermont National Guard receive an orientation of the Mbour Hospital Feb. 20 during the start of the MEDREX Senegal 2023 medical readiness exercise. The 40-person U.S. team will work for two weeks alongside Senegalese hospital professionals at the Thies Regional Hospital and two smaller hospitals.
Virginia National Guardsmen Return From Overseas Duty
February 24, 2023
Virginia National Guard Soldiers assigned to the 576th Engineer Utilities Detachment, 276th Engineer Battalion, 329th Regional Support Group, return to Virginia Feb. 10, 2023, after serving on federal active duty in Southwest Asia since May. The Soldiers supported U.S. Central Command’s Operation Spartan Shield.
West Virginia Army Guard Wins Top Environmental Award
February 23, 2023
Col. Anthony Hammett, the Army National Guard’s chief of installations, environment, and energy, left, presents the 2022 Environmental Stewardship Award to Nick Broyles, accepting on behalf of the West Virginia Army National Guard's environmental program, during the Programming Guidance Course at the Professional Education Center on Camp Robinson in North Little Rock, Arkansas, in January 2023. The WVARNG scored highest in the nation in the ARNG G-9’s four environmental sections: Cleanup, Conservation, Technological Innovation, and Planning.
Arctic Guardians Honored for Al Asad Evacuation
February 22, 2023
Alaska Air National Guard Col. Joshua Armstrong, 176th Operations Group commander, speaks following his award of a Bronze Star during a Feb. 11, 2023, awards ceremony at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Armstrong earned the award for his actions as the 26th Expeditionary Squadron commander during the Iranian theater ballistic missile attack on Al Asad Air Base, Iraq, in 2020.
Pennsylvania Guard CST Tests Emergency Response Capabilities
February 22, 2023
The Pennsylvania National Guard’s 3rd Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Team conducted a two-day training proficiency exercise at Harrisburg International Airport and Harrisburg Area Community College Feb. 15 and Feb. 17, 2023.