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Mass. Guard Wing Boosts Readiness to Respond to Battlefield Casualties
August 24, 2026 — BARNES AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. — The 104th Fighter Wing strengthened its ability to respond to battlefield casualties Aug. 18-23 by bringing Airmen from across the region together for its first...

Massachusetts Air Guard’s 102nd Intelligence Wing Tests Readiness During Exercise Formosa Guardian
November 17, 2025 — OTIS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. – The 102nd Intelligence Wing concluded Exercise Formosa Guardian Nov. 1, ending a three-phase combat readiness assessment.During the exercise, the 102nd...

Massachusetts Air Guard Enhances Skills With Critical Infrastructure Upgrade
August 12, 2025 — OTIS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. - The Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 212th Engineering Installation Squadron, or EIS, completed a critical infrastructure upgrade at Otis Air National Guard...

Massachusetts Air Guard’s 102nd Mission Support Group Conducts Readiness Training
May 19, 2025 — OTIS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. – The Massachusetts Air National Guard’s 102nd Civil Engineer Squadron (102nd CES), in coordination with squadrons across the 102nd Mission Support Group (102nd...

Massachusetts Air National Guard Conducts Tactical Casualty Combat Care Training
April 11, 2025 — CAPE COD, Mass. – Participants in the Massachusetts Air National Guard’s Tactical Casualty Combat Care exercise last week developed life-saving skills and enhanced their medical readiness.The 102nd...

Massachusetts National Guard Wing Trains on Disaster Response
January 2, 2025 — OTIS AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. - Emergency managers with the 102nd Civil Engineer Squadron conducted a natural disaster response exercise with 102nd Intelligence Wing members on Otis Air National...

Mass. Airmen Represent Air Guard at Medic Rodeo
August 22, 2024 — CANNON AIR FORCE BASE, N.M. – The Air National Guard’s 102nd Medical Group (MDG) competed in the 2024 Medic Rodeo competition Aug. 12-16. The four-person cadre was the only Air National Guard team to...

104th Fighter Wing Donates F-15C to New England Air Museum
July 23, 2024 — BARNES AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. – The 104th Fighter Wing donated an F-15 Eagle to the New England Air Museum July 22 as the wing prepares for the conversion to the F35A Lightning II. Col...

Massachusetts Air Guard Helps Upgrade Comms at Joint Base Langley-Eustis
June 28, 2024 — JOINT BASE LANGLEY-EUSTIS, Va. - The communications squadron at Joint Base Langley-Eustis had a challenge. The unit had identified hundreds of network switches on the base’s network that needed...

Massachusetts Air Guard Airmen Test New Air Combat Tactics
May 2, 2024 — BARNES AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. – Members of the 104th Fighter Wing attended the U.S. Air Force weapons school integration exercise April 6-20 at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. The two-week...

Vermont Airmen Test Agility During Multistate Exercise
February 8, 2024 — SAVANNAH, Ga. - Nearly 260 members of the Vermont Air National Guard’s 158th Fighter Wing and other Airmen and civilians from across the country participated in the ACE exercise Maple Thunder Jan...

104th Fighter Wing Conducts Readiness Exercise
November 6, 2023 — WESTFIELD, Mass. - The 104th Fighter Wing conducted a four-day, base-wide readiness exercise Nov. 2-5 at Barnes Air National Guard Base.“The REX provides the wing the chance to test interoperability...

Massachusetts Guard Attends Planning Conference in Israel
September 25, 2023 — RAMLA, Israel - Members of the 102nd Intelligence Wing, Massachusetts Air National Guard, attended the National Guard Bureau-Home Front Command annual planning conference in Israel July 22-28.U.S. Air...

National Guard Honors Fallen in Memorial Day Observances
May 26, 2023 — ARLINGTON, Va. - The National Guard is honoring service members who died for their country in Memorial Day observances across the country this weekend. “When we remember what the fallen have given us,...

104th Fighter Wing Hosts ANG Production Assessment Team
December 21, 2022 — WESTFIELD, Mass. – The 104th Fighter Wing hosted 15 subject matter experts from the Air National Guard Production Assessment Team Dec. 13-16 to identify ways the unit can be more efficient and...

Pennsylvania Air Guard Joins Operation Noble Defender
November 15, 2022 — CORAOPOLIS, Pa. – The Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s 171st Air Refueling Wing participated in the North American Aerospace Defense Command’s Operation Noble Defender off the U.S. northeast coast...

Barnestormers complete joint aircraft recovery training
April 4, 2022 — WESTFIELD, Mass. – Nearly 50 Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve members from the 104th Fighter Wing, 158th Fighter Wing and 439th Air Mobility Wing completed a joint, hands-on Crash, Damaged or...

104th FW conducts midpoint inspection readiness exercise
November 8, 2021 — BARNES AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Mass. - Barnestormers across the 104th Fighter Wing conducted a readiness exercise as part of the wing's midpoint inspection Nov. 4-6 at Barnes Air National Guard...

131st Fighter Squadron raises capabilities, safety with SPYDR
October 29, 2021 — WESTFIELD, Mass. – The 131st Fighter Squadron became the first F-15C Eagle unit to employ SPYDR by Spotlight Labs at Barnes Air National Guard Base in September.SPYDR is a system for pilots and...

104th Medical Group trains on medical care, combat tactics
October 18, 2021 — HARTFORD, Conn. - Members of the 104th Medical Group, Massachusetts Air National Guard, attended a Tactical Combat Casualty Care course through the Center for Education, Simulation and Innovation with...

New York Guardsmen Earn Danish Military March Ribbon

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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