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Ohio Guard’s 178th Wing Showcases Agile Combat Employment
March 20, 2025 — SPRINGFIELD-BECKLEY AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Ohio - Airmen from the Ohio Air National Guard’s 178th Wing, collaborating with the New York and Mississippi Air National Guard, showcased Agile Combat...

National Guard Conducts Patriot Exercise in Mississippi
February 22, 2024 — CAMP SHELBY, Miss. – The National Guard conducted a disaster readiness exercise with state and county emergency management agencies and industry partners Feb. 18-22.PATRIOT is a joint, interagency...

Mississippi Air Guard Demonstrates Multicapable Airman Concept
September 22, 2023 — JACKSON, Miss. - The 172nd Airlift Wing conducted Operation Iron Magnolia Sept. 9, generating maximum airlift capability sustained by the multicapable Airman concept.Members of the 172nd Maintenance...

Mississippi, Arkansas Guard Airmen Train with Coast Guard
August 30, 2023 — GULFPORT, Miss. - The 183rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, Mississippi Air National Guard, and the 189th Medical Group, Arkansas Air National Guard, trained alongside Coast Guardsmen from Gulfport...

Contingency Response Airmen Bring AD23 Participants
June 27, 2023 — WUNSTORF AIR BASE, GERMANY - The Air National Guard’s 123rd and 156th Contingency Response Groups and the 172nd and 146th Contingency Response Flights are helping to return over 10,000 personnel and...

ACE is Focus of Southern Strike 2023 Exercise
April 26, 2023 — GULFPORT, Miss. – One of the U.S. Air Force’s newest concepts, Agile Combat Employment, is the focus of the Southern Strike 2023 exercise at the Gulfport Combat Readiness Training Center.Approximately...

130th Airlift Wing practices ACE during Flare 2023
April 3, 2023 — CHARLESTON, W.Va. - More than 400 members of the 130th Airlift Wing conducted a weeklong Fly Away Readiness Exercise at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport, Mississippi.FLARE is a...

Mississippi Air Refueling Wing Practices Rapid Response
March 6, 2023 — KEY FIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Miss. - The 186th Air Refueling Wing conducted a large-scale readiness exercise Feb. 28-March 3 at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport.The exercise...

172nd Airlift Wing Completes Readiness Exercise
February 1, 2023 — JACKSON, Miss. – Airmen from the 172nd Airlift Wing participated in large-scale readiness exercise Jan. 27-29, testing their ability to operate in a deployed environment under various threats.“The LRE...

172nd Resource Protection Team: The Quiet Complement
January 19, 2023 — JACKSON, Miss. – The 172nd Resource Protection Team, a group of volunteers from various career fields and backgrounds from the 172nd Airlift Wing, conducted annual firearms training and qualification...

Vietnam Air Force vet tours Mississippi airbase
November 8, 2021 — KEY FIELD AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Miss. - With Veterans Day approaching, the 186th Air Refueling Wing was honored to host and provide a tour to a Vietnam veteran Nov. 6.James William Roberts, 82,...

141st Air Control Squadron attends 2021 Southern Strike
May 25, 2021 — AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico – Airmen with the Puerto Rico Air National Guard’s 141st Air Control Squadron attended 2021 Southern Strike training in Gulfport, Mississippi, April 15-29.These Airmen, from...

172nd Airlift Wing brings 90 Americans home
April 24, 2020 — JACKSON, Miss. – U.S. citizens stranded in Panama and Colombia during the COVID-19 pandemic got the ride of their lives when a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 172nd Airlift Wing...

Florida Guard Chaplains Host First Changing of the Stole Ceremony

Oklahoma Guard Strengthens Critical Capabilities During Exercise Thunderstruck

Oregon Guard Uses New Hoist Technology in Rescue

Chief of National Guard Bureau visits Purdue to discuss national security, military education

Alaska Guard Rescues Injured Mountain Biker