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Ohio Air Guard Enhances Combat Airpower at Checkered Flag
May 29, 2026 — TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. – In a contested environment, air superiority depends on advanced technology as well as the training and experience to use that technology effectively – a focus for the...

Ohio Guard Fighter Wing Deemed Mission Ready
April 28, 2026 — SWANTON, Ohio – In a relentless demonstration of speed, skill and vigilance, about 1,000 members of the Ohio Air National Guard’s 180th Fighter Wing successfully completed a six-day Combat Readiness...

Ohio Guard Participates in Operation Healthy Tennessee 2025
July 16, 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,...

Northern Lightning Exercise Concludes at Volk Field
September 3, 2024 — VOLK FIELD, Wis. - More than 1,000 service members from nearly 25 units nationwide conducted Northern Lightning, a two-week joint-training exercise held annually at the Volk Field Combat Readiness...

Ohio Air National Guard Medical Group Trains in Japan
July 17, 2023 — CAMP FOSTER, Japan – Members from the Ohio Air National Guard’s 180th Fighter Wing, Medical Group, arrived at Camp Foster in Okinawa, Japan, as part of the Comprehensive Medical Readiness Program...

From Refugee to Ohio National Guard Airman and Lawyer
August 8, 2022 — SWANTON, Ohio– U.S. Air Force 1st Lt. Igor Petrovich is no stranger to adversity. Born and raised in Travnik, Bosnia, in 1989, just two years before the Yugoslav Wars broke out in the region, he...

A matter of life or death: seeking help for mental health
May 19, 2022 — SWANTON, Ohio – “I was highly suicidal and I told my husband that if he didn’t take me to the hospital, I wasn’t going to continue to live.”For Tech. Sgt. Jilayne Michelsen, assigned to the Ohio...

180FW Airman fixes courthouse clock
July 7, 2020 — BOWLING GREEN, Ohio – The historic clock at the Wood County Courthouse can start ticking again after an Ohio National Guard Airman designed and built a gear to replace a broken part.The clock had been...

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

Alaska Air National Guard Rescues Four From Plane Crash

Modular Airborne System Delivers One Million Gallons of Fire Retardant