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  • Let the Sun Shine, we have shades

    The Maryland Air National Guard has new sunshades. No not the kind you wear but the kind you put over your A-10 attack aircraft. Eight new sunshades were installed at Warfield Air National Guard Base. "The shades help us keep our aircraft maintenance personnel out of the elements while working on

  • 2011 Marks Three Anniversaries for MDANG

    The year 2011 will mark the passage of three anniversaries for the Maryland Air National Guard - the first of which occurs today.Feb. 3 is the 70th anniversary of the Maryland National Guard's mobilization for World War II. The Guard was called into federal service under President Franklin D.

  • Cold weather work

    While Maryland has a colder than normal December, Master Sgt. Dwayne Miller was working in even colder temperatures near the South Pole.Sergeant Miller, an air transportation worker with the 175th Logistic Readiness Squadron, spent a month in Antarctica assigned to work OPERATION DEEP FREEZE. This

  • Outstanding Airmen 'On a Journey' to Success

    Brig. Gen. Allyson Solomon, Maryland's assistant adjutant general-air, sees the Maryland Air National Guard on a journey. According to the general, during this journey it is important to recognize the outstanding contributions of individuals. As part of that, the Maryland Air National Guard

  • Guardsmen Turn Combat Technology into Tool for Saving Lives

    Technology designed to increase the combat effectiveness of A-10 attack jets is now being used to prepare to help save lives according to Maryland Air National Guard officials.A-10Cs from Maryland's 175th Wing participating in Exercise Vigilant Guard, an annual training exercise designed to prepare

  • Base Hosts Hundreds as Vigilant Guard Kicks Off

    Warfield Air National Guard Base in Middle River, Md., underwent a sudden transformation this week as it became home to 300 National Guard troops from West Virginia, Delaware and Pennsylvania. It's all part of Exercise Vigilant Guard, an annual disaster response exercise that tests the National

  • Joint Helicopter Exercise Trains the Total Force

    Undeterred by inclement weather, a joint, total force team took to darkening skies here at Weide Army Heliport on September 29, as Airmen from the 175th Wing teamed with Maryland National Guard Soldiers from the 29th Combat Aviation Brigade and active duty combat camera Soldiers from the 55th Signal

  • Conference Gives Maryland NCOs Broader Perspective

    Four mid-grade NCOs from the 175th Wing recently got a healthy dose of professional development as part of a four-day conference held by the Enlisted Association of the National Guard of the United States.Tech. Sgt. Steven Hood, 175th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron; Tech. Sgt. Tammi George, 175th

  • The making of an A-10C pilot: "Graduation"

    -- It was a celebration here Aug. 20 as 1st Lt. Dan Griffin, a pilot assigned to the Maryland Air National Guard's 104th Fighter Squadron and his 11 classmates became the Air Force's newest A-10C Thunderbolt II attack pilots. Their afternoon graduation ceremony was held at the base theater in front

  • Social Media Raise New Questions Regarding Political Activity

    While warnings to military members regarding restrictions on partisan political activities are nothing new, the advent of social media has added some new wrinkles. As the political campaign season approaches, members must take care that their political activities in cyberspace don't land them in