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  • Airmen look over A-10s from Battle Creek, Mich. and Baltimore before launching them on a mission. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. David Speicher

    Birds of a Feather Flock Together

    A time compliance technical order has brought several A-10 units here to Warfield Air National Guard Base. Planes, pilots and maintenance crews from Air National Guard units at Fort Smith, Ark. and Battle Creek, Mich. along with active duty personnel from Moody Air Force Base, Ga. have been flying since October. Wing cracks were discovered in some
  • Edward Henry Hale, father of Senior Master Sgt. Frederic T. Hale, Small Air Terminal Superintendant, 135th Logistics Readiness Squadron, stands on top of P-51 Mustang. Submitted photo

    Tuskegee Airman

    The Tuskegee Airmen served as the first African-American unit in the Army during the 1940's. Born in Charleston, W.Va on June 3, 1916, Edward Henry Hale, father of Senior Master Sgt. Frederic T. Hale, Small Air Terminal Superintendant, 135th Logistics Readiness Squadron, reached the rank of Staff Sgt. as a member of this elite group. After the
  • Senior Airman Ryan H. Megredy won for the Airman of the Year category.

    Airman of the Year

    The 175th Wing held its first Airman Recognition Ceremony in December. This annual event recognizes not only the winners of the Airman of the Year but also Community College of the Air Force graduates and other outstanding achievements by Airman during the year. Brig. Gen. James A. Adkins, the Adjutant General, Maryland National Guard, emphasized
  • Air Force Maj. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III is the Oklahoma National Guard's adjutant general. He has also served as commander of the 138th Fighter Wing in Tulsa and as the Oklahoma Guard's chief of staff for its Joint Force Headquarters.

    Wyatt nominated as next Air National Guard director

    Less than 24 hours after taking the oath of office as chief of the National Guard Bureau (CNGB), Air Force Gen. Craig R. McKinley announced here today President George W. Bush will nominate Air Force Maj. Gen. Harry M. Wyatt III to the U.S. Senate for confirmation as the next director of the Air National Guard. If confirmed, Wyatt will be promoted
  • As his wife Cheryl McKinley holds a bible, Air Force Gen. Craig R. McKinley is sworn in by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as the 26th chief of the National Guard Bureau during a ceremony at the Pentagon, where he was also promoted to his current rank, Monday, Nov. 17, 2008. McKinley is the first Guard officer to be promoted to the four-star rank. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jon Soucy) (Released)

    Guard's first general ready to take Minutemen forward

    Air Force Gen. Craig R. McKinley officially became chief of the National Guard Bureau (CNGB) and was promoted to the rank of general by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in a ceremony today at the Pentagon. Gates and Navy Adm. Michael G. Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as McKinley's wife, daughter and son helped add the
  • Master Sgt. Kathy Watson

    The last for a 1st Sgt.

    Master Sgt. Kathy Watson started her career in the military in 1984. She enlisted as an active duty personnel specialist in the USAF. Her first duty station was Minot AFB, North Dakota. The first day she was on the base it snowed. She said "Everyone was upset but me. I loved the snow." It was the first time she had ever experienced a snowfall being
  • Master Sgt. Robert A. Gordon and Tech. Sgt. Shaun Blische, both members of the 175th Civil Engineer Squadron, restore a monument at Mount Igman, Bosnia-Herzegovina. The monument memorializes three American diplomats and their French driver, who were killed at the site in 1995. The memorial is being restored by members of the Maryland National Guard as part of a humanitarian civic action project under the auspices of the National Guard’s State Partnership Program. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. David D. Speicher)

    Engineers Push Forward with Bosnia Construction

    The Maryland Air National Guard's 175th Civil Engineer Squadron has nearly completed work on a memorial to three Americans who died here during the Bosnian civil war officials said today. Seventy-two members of the Maryland Air National Guard are in Bosnia taking part in two civic construction projects under the auspices of the National Guard's
  • U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina Charles English shakes hands with the Lt. Col. John McVicker, commander of the Maryland Air National Guard’s 175th Civil Engineer Squadron during a visit to the Vuk Karadzic primary school in Vlasenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina July 24, 2008. The school was in the process of being renovated by members of the Maryland National Guard as part of a humanitarian civic action project under the auspices of the National Guard’s State Partnership Program. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. David D. Speicher)

    Ambassador Praises Maryland Guard Efforts in Bosnia

    The U.S. Ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Charles English, today praised Maryland Air National Guard efforts at two construction sites in the former Yugoslav republic. Seventy-two members of the Maryland Air National Guard's 175th Wing are in Bosnia taking part in a civic construction mission under the auspices of the National Guard's State
  • Master Sgt. Cathy Burns, a member of the Maryland Air National Guard’s 175th Civil Engineer Squadron, drills a hole for mounting a light switch at a primary school in Vlasenica, Republika Srpska, Bosnia-Herzegovina July 15, 2008, as part of a humanitarian civic action project under the auspices of the National Guard’s State Partnership Program. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Wayde R. Minami)

    MARYLAND AIR NATIONAL GUARD CIVIL ENGINEERS

    Airmen from the Maryland Air National Guard's 175th Civil Engineer Squadron are pressing ahead full bore with two humanitarian construction projects in Bosnia-Herzegovina officials said here today. The engineering projects are part of the National Guard's State Partnership Program. As the name implies, the program partners U.S. states with foreign

  • Training pairs veteran cops with younger security forces

    Having downed five drinks in less than four hours, Tech. Sgt. Joel Colinco was hammered when he encountered the cops. Stumbling and barely able to walk a straight line, Colinco -- a reservist with the 146th Airlift Wing from the Channel Islands Air National Guard -- failed all the field sobriety tests and was escorted home to sleep it off. He was
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