Members of the New York Air National Guard's 106th Rescue Wing Fire Department, along with other local fire departments, respond to the Pine Barrens Fire off Sunrise Highway in New York, March 8, 2025. The 106th Rescue Wing was the first unit to apply water to the fire during a coordinated response that ultimately included more than 80 local fire departments, additional base … [Read more...]
Guard Aviators Land Black Hawk on Train
MARCH 5, 2025 - Alaska Army National Guard aviators assigned to Golf Company, 2nd Battalion, 211th General Support Aviation Battalion, landed an HH-60M Black Hawk helicopter on the platform of an Alaska Railroad rail car staged on a bridge above the Chena River near Fairbanks. The two-wheel touchdown on a rail car was the culminating training event of exercise Special … [Read more...]
Doctor Creates Innovative Casualty Care System
MARCH 3, 2025 - Historically, battles are won by the side that carries momentum throughout the fight. Taking casualties can stop that momentum in its tracks. In Alaska, those tracks are complicated by extreme cold, ice and snow, making casualty care in arctic environments challenging in the heat of combat. Alaska Army National Guard Maj. Titus Rund, a flight surgeon assigned … [Read more...]
Fighter Wing Completes Final F-16 Sortie
FEBRUARY 27, 2025 - The 56th Fighter Wing flew the final U.S. F-16 Fighting Falcon local training sortie today, February 26, 2025, at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. The 309th Fighter Squadron was the last U.S. Air Force F-16 training squadron at Luke AFB. The squadron will convert to training pilots on fifth generation aircraft, becoming the seventh F-35A Lightning II … [Read more...]
Guard Joins International Cyber Defense Competition
Maj. Joerge Baack (center), the 168th Cyberspace Operations Squadron director of operations, monitors his team's progress during the International Cyber Defense Competition, Feb. 22, 2025, at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Cyber teams from the armed forces of Kosovo, Albania and Northern Macedonia participated in the event along with university teams from Iowa State, … [Read more...]