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  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Pargan 12,500 Flying Hours Milestone

    If Chief Master Sgt. Gordon Riffe, former superintendent of the Maryland Air National Guard's 135th Airlift Squadron's loadmaster section, hadn't encouraged a young civilian to look into the Air National Guard back the early 1980s, Master Sgt. Steve Pargan might be still working behind the counter