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  • Guardsman Puts Newly Acquired Training to Test

    Senior Airman Luis A. Zendejas-Garcia was driving home May 17 after completing Airman Leadership School where he learned management and leadership skills to be successful in his career. Little did he know he would have to put those newly used skills to work during that drive.Zendejas-Garcia, a food

  • Air National Guard Supports Missouri Flood Efforts

    As a good portion of the sporting world's eyes were focused on the college baseball action at Omaha's sparkling new $128 million TD Ameritrade Park, members of the Nebraska Air National Guard's eyes were focused squarely on the action taking place just north and south of this year's College World

  • 155th Air Refueling Wing Participates in Global Operations

    Most warfare techniques from WWI have become antiquated or have been replaced thanks to new technology. However, the Nebraska Air National Guard continues to employ a deployment concept first created in 1917 - the Air and Space Expeditionary Force concept.Better known as AEF, it was a concept born

  • National Guard Bureau Senior Enlisted Leader Visits

    The 155th Air Refueling Wing welcomed Command Chief Master Sgt. Denise M. Jelinski-Hall, Senior Enlisted Leader for the National Guard Bureau, when she spent time with the airmen and soldiers of Agricultural Development Team 2 here June 6 and 7.Jelinski-Hall visited with members of ADT 2 in the

  • Nebraska Air National Guard Opens Cornhusker State Games

    The 95-degree hot and humid heat didn't deter the twenty volunteers of the 155th Air Refueling Wing as they readied to unfurl the large U.S. flag during the 27th Annual Cornhusker State Games opening ceremonies held at Seacrest field in Lincoln on July 15, 2011.The Opening Ceremonies is the

  • Madison Native Assists With Nebraska National Guard's Ongoing Flood Response

    Like an unstoppable force, the Missouri River continues to redefine its banks as it cuts across the Nebraska landscape and through Omaha's north and east shores.The sheer amount and momentum of unmitigated water hastening southward, carrying trees and debris like missiles, truly escapes the mind as

  • Wing Airmen Complete National Guard Reaction Force Training

    The National Guard serves a dual mission. The Guard's primary duty is to follow orders from the president of the United States in the event of a national emergency. Their secondary duty is to answer the call of the governor in a state emergency such as a flood, blizzard, earthquake, hurricane or

  • Gators Go Fishing

    Positive community relations can be established by giving one's time to people in the surrounding communities.Members of the Nebraska Air National Guard's 155th Air Refueling Wing volunteered, May 20, to teach students enrolled in the Functional Community Reference program at Lincoln North Star High

  • Lincoln Airmen Spend Holidays Overseas

    Airmen from the 155th Air Refueling wing recently deployed in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom and Enduring Freedom supporting two separate rotations.The deployments, approximately 39 and 37 days respectively, sent more than 100 Nebraska ANG members to the AOR. Al Udeid Air Base, Qatar, has