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Minneapolis Guard, Reserve units team up for eight-ship night training mission
Posted on 12/05/2013Shrinking budgets and continuing resolutions present huge obstacles to Reserve and Guard aircrews maintaining a high level of flying proficiency. Despite these barriers, Citizen Airmen flying C-130s are tasked to regularly deploy to fly in combat. To properly prepare individuals to execute this mission units are looking for new ways to gain experience usually obtained at costly large-scale exercises.
On Nov. 15 the Air Force Reserve's 934th Airlift Wing and the Minnesota Air National Guard's 133rd Airlift Wing combined to execute a night training mission with a formation of eight C-130H aircraft. Both units, co-located at the Minneapolis-St Paul International Airport, took advantage of their proximity to achieve training for aircrews and support agencies. With each wing participating with four aircraft, aircrews were able to train in large formation operations for a fraction of the cost it would take for one wing to launch eight aircraft on their own.
more...National Guard competes for Best Ranger teams
Posted on 11/26/2013Twenty-two National Guard Soldiers from 13 states competed for nine open slots, Nov. 20, 2013, at Fort Benning, Ga., to participate in the competition next spring.
Soldiers hit ground running first day of `Best Warrior'
Posted on 11/20/2013From the pre-dawn hours to after the sun dipped below the horizon, the Army's finest warriors were pushed to their limits both physically and mentally during the first day of the Army's 2013 Best Warrior Competition.
U.S., China conduct Disaster Management Exchange
Posted on 11/20/2013Soldiers from United States Army Pacific, Hawaii Army National Guard and Army Corps of Engineers along with representatives from the Federal Emergency Management Agency participated with the People's Liberation Army in a Disaster Management Exchange, Nov. 12 -14 at Marine Corps Training Area-Bellows, Hawaii.
Soldiers hit ground running first day of Best Warrior Competition
Posted on 11/19/2013From the pre-dawn hours to after the sun dipped below the horizon, the Army's finest warriors were pushed to their limits both physically and mentally during the first day of the Army's 2013 Best Warrior Competition.
National Guard, ROTC Cadets partner for security cooperation missions
Posted on 11/17/2013In the early 1990s, as the old Soviet Union was in its final stages of collapse, the United States saw an opportunity to promote peace, minimize regional instability and encourage democracy in the region with what would later be called the State Partnership Program.
Formula for an EPME instructor: Excellence = Experience + Desire
Posted on 11/15/2013"Everyone here is a professional and excellent at what they do."
That's what Tech. Sgt. Drew Carson said when asked why he enjoys coming to work as an enlisted professional military education (EPME) instructor at the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center (TEC).
"That's what makes me so successful," said Carson. "It's because I work among top notch people - Guard, Reserve and active duty. How can I not like coming in each day?"
If that's true, then Carson's active duty accomplishment as one of the Air National Guard's top Airmen - he was recognized as the Air National Guard Readiness Center's outstanding noncommissioned officer for July-September - seems still, pretty impressive.
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