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Washington Air Guardsmen Integrate with Royal Australian Air Force for Talisman Sabre 2025
July 23, 2025 — RAAF BASE WILLIAMTOWN, Australia - Operators from the Western Air Defense Sector and Pacific Air Defense Sector integrated with the Royal Australian Air Force’s No. 3 Control and Reporting Unit, or...

Western Air Defense Sector Gets New Training Facility
October 17, 2023 — JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. - The Western Air Defense Sector celebrated the opening of its new Mission Training Center during a ribbon-cutting ceremony Oct. 5.The Continental North American...

Western Air Defense Sector Conducts Exercise at Oregon Beach
May 1, 2023 — SUNSET BEACH, Ore. - For the past month, Airmen from the Western Air Defense Sector’s 225th Air Defense Squadron have been innovating mobile tactical command and control planning and exercises to inch...

WADS Airman sews 150 masks for Alabama hospital workers
May 19, 2020 — JOINT BASE LEWIS-MCCHORD, Wash. – A Washington Air National Guard member from the Western Air Defense Sector (WADS) sewed 150 protective cloth masks and sent them to a hospital in Alabama. Staff Sgt...

New York Guardsmen Earn Danish Military March Ribbon

Kentucky Guard Builds Portable Air Base for Patriot 26

Three Components, One Army: LaNeve Stresses Guard’s Role in Army’s New Priorities

Pennsylvania Guardsmen Demonstrate Drone Innovation Project

Nordhaus, Raines Outline a National Guard Focused on the Future