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Florida Guard’s 125th Fighter Wing Receives First Permanently Assigned F-35
August 21, 2025 — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. - The 500th F-35A Lightning II built for the U.S. Air Force has arrived at the Florida Air National Guard’s 125th Fighter Wing as one of the unit’s first three permanently assigned...

Air Guard Units Test Readiness at Sentry Savannah Exercise
May 22, 2024 — SAVANNAH, Ga. - Over 775 participants and 40 aircraft from units across the Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve and Active Duty Air Force participated in Sentry Savannah 2024, the Air National...

Weapons School Produces Guard Leaders in Growing Space Domain
October 17, 2023 — ARLINGTON, Va. - In the heart of Nevada’s Nellis Air Force Base, a select group of Air National Guard members hone their expertise at the Air Force Weapons School in the most crucial battlefront of...

Florida Airmen Find Common Ground in Military Exchange
September 26, 2023 — JACKSONVILLE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Fla. – Four Airmen assigned to the 125th Security Forces Squadron integrated with the Royal Air Force’s 609 (West Riding) Squadron, RAF Regiment, in the United...

Airmen Train for Space Operations During Vulcan Guard
August 14, 2023 — SPRINGFIELD, Ohio - The Ohio Air National Guard’s 178th Wing hosted an iteration of the Vulcan Guard space exercise Aug. 10-11, bringing together U.S. Space Command, the Brazilian military and all...

Florida Pilot’s Homecoming a Fitting end to Storied Career
August 8, 2023 — JACKSONVILLE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Fla. – Florida Air National Guard Lt. Col. Daniel Schiller’s last tour of duty couldn’t be a more satisfying final act in his two-decade military career. Just...

A Critical Battlespace: Guard Units Train on Electromagnetic Warfare
June 21, 2023 — BANGOR, Maine – Sure and swift.Those words, embroidered on unit patches worn by Airmen with the Florida Air National Guard’s 114th Electromagnetic Warfare Squadron during a training exercise recently,...

Florida Air Guard Conducts Cold Weather Training in Michigan
February 16, 2023 — ALPENA COMBAT READINESS TRAINING CENTER, Mich. – Florida Air National Guard Airmen of the 290th Joint Communications Support Squadron traveled to Michigan to test mission capabilities and readiness in...

Space Control Squadron Redesignated Electronic Warfare Squadron
January 30, 2023 — CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. – The 114th Space Control Squadron, a geographically separated unit assigned to the Florida Air National Guard’s 125th Fighter Wing, was redesignated as the...

Florida Guard’s 159th Weather Flight Wins Weather Challenge
November 16, 2022 — JACKSONVILLE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Fla. – Airmen assigned to the 159th Weather Flight bested 66 teams to win Thor’s Forecast Challenge, a demanding two-week competition that tested weather flights’...

Oregon’s 173rd Fighter Wing Trains with Marine Counterparts
August 24, 2022 — MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif. – The 173rd Fighter Wing out of Kingsley Field in Klamath Falls, Oregon, has been in the fighter training business for nearly 40 years and is the sole F-15C...

Florida Guardsman Achieves First at Air Force Weapons School
August 5, 2022 — JACKSONVILLE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Fla. – Weapons Patch. A distinction earned only after graduating from the U.S. Air Force’s Weapons School, one of the most academically rigorous schoolhouses in...

Florida Air Guardsman Named top First Sergeant
July 21, 2022 — JACKSONVILLE AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Fla. – “To the HORSE,” a chant unifying nearly 200 202nd Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers (RED HORSE), can now be rephrased,...

Florida, Georgia Guard Airmen Train in Hawaii
July 18, 2022 — HONOLULU – Nearly 50 Airmen assigned to the 125th Medical Group, Florida Air National Guard, and the 165th Medical Group, Georgia Air National Guard, conducted annual medical training at Tripler Army...

Sentry Savannah builds warfighter readiness, lethality
May 25, 2022 — SAVANNAH, Ga. – About 1,300 Total Force Airmen, joint personnel and civilian partners and more than 50 airframes participated in exercise Sentry Savannah May 2-15.Hosted by the Air Dominance Center at...

202nd RED HORSE Squadron preps for deployment at exercise
March 7, 2022 — STARKE, Fla. – Explosions, gunfire and heavy machinery. Airmen of the 202nd RED HORSE Squadron started their morning at Camp Blanding Joint Training Center hunkered down in the field, ready to respond...

Operation SPACECAT focuses on electromagnetic warfare
January 28, 2022 — CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. - Near the end of 2021, members of the Florida Air National Guard’s 114th Space Control Squadron hosted the U.S. Navy’s Electronic Attack Squadron 139...

FLNG Citizen-Airman tops 3,000 flight hours on CV-22 Osprey
August 25, 2020 — JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – Just days before assuming command of the newly activated 249th Special Operations Squadron at Hurlburt Field, Lt. Col. Luke Sustman became the first Air Force pilot to amass 3,000...

Hawaii Guard Supports Tropical Cyclone Lala Response

South Carolina Guard Enhances Readiness With Advanced HH-60M Black Hawk

Army National Guard Fast-Tracks Resilient Microgrids with $14.7M APFIT Award

Ohio Guard Boosts Medical Skills While Providing No-Cost Care

Idaho Guard Strengthens Engineering Skills in Canada