Feb. 22, 2022 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
Dec. 16, 2021 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
Nov. 7, 2021 NEANG Cyber Security team keeps network safe In 2021 alone, America’s energy sector, power plants, food supply, water supply, health care, law enforcement and defense sector have all come under cyber-attack.
Sept. 11, 2021 Nebraska service members look back on 9/11 experiences It was a cool Tuesday morning in Lincoln on September 11, 2001, what seemed like a normal day, everyone going about their normal business. Then mid-morning, word quickly spread among friends and co-workers to turn on the TV and see what was happening in New York City and Washington, D.C.
Sept. 3, 2021 Nebraska, Czech Republic firefighters strengthen partnership Fourteen firefighters from the Army of the Czech Republic fire department trained alongside the U.S. counterparts with the 155th Air Refueling Wing fire department Aug. 16-19, 2021, at Lincoln Air Force Base and Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
June 23, 2021 NEANG SFS takes on Patriot 21 Airmen of the 155th Security Forces Squadron joined other National Guard units, civilian partners, and local agencies at PATRIOT 21 for Domestic Operations training exercise June 10 - 19, 2021, to work through a mock natural disaster.
Jan. 12, 2021 Nebraska Air National Guard provide key capability to Emerald Flag exercise The 155th Air Refueling Wing, Nebraska Air National Guard, participated in Emerald Flag, a multi-service exercise, Dec. 1-5, 2020, at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.Emerald Flag is a multi-domain test exercise that incorporates technology and focuses on the efficiency for Joint warfare.
April 22, 2020 COVID response: DOD, Academia partner to conduct aircraft airflow testing in Nebraska In an effort to mitigate the effects of the COVID-19 outbreak and to continue executing rapid global mobility operations, the U.S. Air Force’s Air Mobility Command sent multiple airframes to participate in particle and airflow testing at Nebraska Air National Guard air base, Nebraska, April 4-11,
April 6, 2020 Nebraska Airmen continue overseas contingency operations Airmen from the 155th Air Refueling Wing deployed to support overseas contingency operations March 25, 2020, from the Nebraska Air National Guard air base in Lincoln. The deployment, scheduled 16 months ago, is part of a normal rotation where 50 Airmen traveled to U. S. Central Command, which is in