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  • 155th ARW participates in Justified Accord 22 with Rwanda Defence Force

    Airmen from the 155th Air Refueling Wing’s medical group participated in Justified Accord 2022, a joint medical engineer mission with the Rwanda Defence Force on March 2-22, 2022, at Gako Military Academy, Rwanda.This State Partnership exchange between Nebraska and Rwanda helped build readiness for

  • Airmen attend 1-week pre-deployment training event trial

    Airmen from the 155th Air Refueling Wing completed mandatory pre-deployment training, May 15-22, 2022, at the Nebraska National Guard Greenlief Training Site in Hastings and the Lincoln Air base.During the week of training, approximately 150 members traveled to Greenlief firing range near Hastings,

  • 155th MDG to support IRT

    The word Innovative has become a common buzzword in today's vocabulary and is a word that Maj. Erik Zingler the Optometry Officer in Charge for the 155th Medical Group has become familiar with early on and helped drive innovative change in how American citizens receive healthcare.Zingler is a member

  • Nebraska Stratotankers Support Critical Aerial Refueling Mission

    The Nebraska Air National Guard’s 155th Air Refueling Wing deployed a KC-135 Stratotanker to Pardubice Air Base, Czechia, May 2022 in support of ongoing real-world missions.The KC-135 Stratotanker supplies critical aerial refueling capabilities the U.S. and NATO coalition forces, which are operating

  • 155th ARW BOSS helps with boom operators readiness

    Located in the old engine shop building behind a pair of double doors sits a giant gray machine replicating the back of a KC-135R Stratotanker. There’s a desk full of several computer screens staring at the instructor as they set up and prepare a simulation. Meanwhile on the inside is a boom

  • Nebraska National Guard shares NCO leadership in SPP exchange

    One Airman and three Soldiers from the Nebraska National Guard participated in a non-commissioned officer training exchange with the Rwanda Defence Force, Feb. 7-10, 2022, in Gabiro, Rwanda.The State Partnership between Nebraska and Rwanda was established in December of 2019. This partnership

  • 155th ARW Implements new Air Force Fitness Standards

    It’s a cold early morning as Airmen walk into the Offutt Field House ready to take their physical fitness test. Some stretch while others go over in their heads what benchmarks they need to meet in order to achieve a good total score. They then gather at the starting line on the track, the fitness

  • A Family Military Tradition: The More the Merrier

    As a seven-year-old child, Brent Frohner had been staying at an American-sponsored orphanage in Vietnam for about three years. Frohner remembers the day he found out that he and his brother Brett were to be adopted by an American family. He didn’t know what it all meant, but he was excited because

  • Nebraska CERFP conducts readiness exercise

    A wide open field lay next to some abandoned and damaged buildings at the Nebraska National Guard’s Mead training site. Once the command was given for the exercise to begin, trucks and trailers swarmed into the field with dozens of Air and Army National Guard members setting up equipment, donning