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  • Training Provides Real-World Feedback

    Servicemembers from the 161st Air Refueling Wing Security Forces Squadron received close quarters tactical training in urban environments during the August 2011 Unit Training Assembly at a local "airsoft" arena, where recreational replica firearms shoot plastic rounds."The course is designed to take

  • Service before self lands Arizona colonel Legion of Merit Award

    "She is a leader behaving like a leader. My most proud thought is that she does nothing for herself," said Brigadier General Michael Colangelo, Commander Air National Guard-Arizona as he presented the Legion of Merit to Colonel Wanda Wright, Director of Staff for the Arizona Air National Guard.The

  • Booming Business for the 161st

    "We get to lay down and pass gas," says Senior Master Sgt. Bill Garrett of his position as an air refueling specialist commonly referred to as a "Boom" operator. Somehow "boom" and "gas" are two words the average person may not want to hear in conjunction. Sergeant Garrett's recent trip or "sortie"

  • Labor of Love Leaves Legacy of Leadership

    Each summer for the last five years, an extraordinary transformation takes place in the pines near Flagstaff, Arizona. Over two hundred young men and women, known as cadets in the Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corp attend a Summer Leadership School at an Arizona National Guard training

  • Kuwait Deployment is Meaningful, Rewarding for Air Guard LRS Commander

    Deployments can be both rewarding and challenging. They can also give servicemembers a sense accomplishment and pride at having served their country and their fellow servicemembers. Getting fallen warriors home to their families provided Lt. Col. Allen Kirksey, 161st Logistics Readiness Squadron

  • SPEK Training Provides immense Results

    No matter where troops deploy they need to eat, and being able to eat a hot meal can make a big difference in the positive morale of Airmen. Providing hot meals to forward-operating servicemembers requires specialized equipment and a well trained team from the Force Support Squadron.During the May

  • Teamwork keeps tankers flying

    Saying it is strenuous work to maintain more than 30 aircraft, all of which were built in the Eisenhower era, in temperatures exceeding 110 degrees, is an understatement. However, through knowledge, determination and teamwork, it is just another successful day for the servicemembers of the 340th