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  • Nebraska Air Guard Receives Ninth Outstanding Unit Award

    The 155th Air Refueling Wing in Lincoln, Neb., was awarded its ninth Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for its service from May 1, 2005 through April 30, 2007. This is the third Outstanding Unit Award for this unit while operating the KC-135R Stratotanker as its primary aircraft. The unit

  • Nebraska Air Guard Honors Day Formation Scheduled

    The Nebraska Air National Guard will conduct its annual Honors Day formation Aug. 3 at the Nebraska National Guard air base in Lincoln. According to event organizers, the Honors Day is currently scheduled to begin at 9 a.m. on the grassy mall area located in front of the Nebraska Air National

  • Air Guard helping NORAD mark 50th birthday

    The Nebraska Air Guard is helping the North American Air Defense Command celebrate its 50th birthday by being the first Air Guard unit to put a distinctive NORAD logo on the nose of one of the 155th Air Refueling Wing's KC-135R Stratotanker. According to Chief Master Sgt. Barb Gossage, 155th ARW

  • New Army, Air Guard disaster response team conducts May validation exercise

    The Nebraska National Guard's training site near Mead, Neb, was hardly recognizable. For approximately a week in mid-May, the prairie training site was transformed into the center of a major disaster. There, members of the Nebraska National Guard's new Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear and

  • Air Guard medics provide medical treatment to remote Honduran villages

    Master Sgt. Todd Schneider had heard the stories before, but he really didn't believe them until he saw it with his own two eyes. There, standing outside a makeshift medical clinic in a tiny village near the Honduran capitol of Comayagua, hundreds of local people had lined up for several blocks - in

  • Nebraska dining facility named best in Air National Guard

    New York. Paris. Rome. When it comes to fine dining, some places are known for simply being the best. Add the Nebraska Air National Guard's dining facility to that list. That's because, when it comes to serving up a military meal in the Air National Guard, nobody does it better than the 155th

  • Walls come tumbling down

    As the debris is cleared away, the remains of a 52-year-old legend comes to an end, making way for a new community of joint military team work. A long-time relic of Nebraska Air Guard history, Building 660 was demolished in February to clear room for a new state-of-the-art state joint forces

  • Air Guard, Offutt wing team-up to successfully pass major inspection

    When it comes to teamwork, the members of the Air Force's 55th Wing and the Nebraska Air National Guard's 170th Group have rewritten quite a few chapters during the past five years that the Guard organization has been working with the active Air Force at Offutt Air Force Base. Recently, the Offutt

  • Nebraska Air Guardsman carried unit flag with her during overseas marathon

    A year after competing as a member of the Nebraska Air National Guard's Bataan Death March Marathon team, Senior Airman Riki Foos took her love of competition and unit pride a step further when she competed in a similar race at Al Udeid, Qatar. Competing in a local Bataan Death March Marathon, Foos