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New York Guard Showcases Polar Airlift Mission
July 28, 2026 — OSHKOSH, Wis. – The New York Air Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing joined more than 10,000 aircraft and hundreds of thousands of aviation enthusiasts last week at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh, the world’s largest...

New York Air Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing Ends Successful Greenland Season
September 22, 2025 — STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. – The New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing has wrapped up its 2025 support season for National Science Foundation research in Greenland.The season...

New York Air Guard Launches Greenland Support Mission
April 18, 2025 — STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. — The New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing has started its annual deployment to Greenland to provide logistical support for the National Science...

NY Air Guardsmen Move Cargo, Fuel, People to Greenland Camp
September 12, 2023 — STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, SCOTIA, N.Y. –The New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing wrapped up its annual support to the National Science Foundation in Greenland when Airmen and...

New York Guard Participates in Exercise Guerrier Nordique
March 28, 2023 — RESOLUTE, Nunavut, Canada – Members of the 105th Airlift Wing, Stewart Air National Guard Base, Newburgh, New York, supported exercise Guerrier Nordique from Feb. 22 to March 23 in the harsh High...

Secretary of state, Greenland premier tour NYNG LC-130
May 28, 2021 — KANGERLUSSUAQ, Greenland – The New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing gave Greenland Premier Múte Bourup Egede and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken a close-up look at one of the wing’s...

103rd, 109th back science foundation mission in Greenland
March 12, 2021 — SCOTIA, N.Y. and EAST GRANBY, Conn. – The New York National Guard's 109th Airlift Wing and the Connecticut National Guard's 103rd Airlift Wing transported National Science Foundation personnel and...

109th Airlift Wing wraps up Antarctic research support
March 3, 2021 — STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, New York – The New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing wrapped up its 33rd season of supporting U.S. science research in the Antarctic. From November through...

N.Y. Senior Airman graduates from jungle warfare school
November 19, 2020 — MANAUS, Brazil – When Senior Airman Caleb Lapinel showed up at Brazil’s Jungle Warfare Training School in September, he met special forces soldiers from Spain, Egypt and Indonesia; paratroopers from...

NY Guard's 109th firefighters ready for fast-water rescues
August 18, 2020 — SCOTIA, N.Y. – New York Air National Guard firefighters assigned to the 109th Airlift Wing are ready at a moment’s notice to respond to an aircraft incident or help out a local fire department.But the...

109th Airlift Wing team builds ski landing area in Arctic
July 29, 2020 — SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – "Creatio Ex Nihilo" or "Something from Nothing" is the motto of the 109th Airlift Wing's expeditionary ski-way team of Airmen from various units throughout the wing who are blazing...

NY Guard logistics Soldiers hone airdrop resupply skills
July 29, 2020 — FORT DRUM, N.Y. — The 27th Infantry Brigade Combat Team needs food, fuel and ammunition to fight, which generally flow into the 427th Brigade Support Battalion, the logistics backbone of the brigade...

NY Airmen mounting critical resupply mission in Greenland
July 24, 2020 — STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y. – The 109th Airlift Wing will launch a three-week mission to carry critical supplies to Summit Station, the only year-round science station that operates on the...

NY Air Guard helps resupply northernmost Canadian outpost
October 9, 2019 — STRATTON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Scotia, N.Y. – The New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing delivered more than 100,000 pounds of cargo to the most northern permanently inhabited place in...

New York Guard honors 21st president Chester A. Arthur
October 5, 2018 — MENANDS, N.Y. - Chester A. Arthur, a New York militia officer who became president, provided steady leadership during a period of change and anxiety, growth and optimism in our nation, New York Air...

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Retired Texas Air National Guard Pilot Recalls Protecting Air Force One on 9/11

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