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  • 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

  • Home Again!

    Take the population of Maryland and cram it into South Dakota, fill it with mountains and place it on the western end of China and you start to have something that resembles the nation of Kyrgyzstan. For six months, this tiny central Asian country was home for 28 members of the 155th Security Forces

  • National Guard to the rescue in 8 states

    Citizen-Soldiers and Airmen in eight states rescued people and hauled hay to livestock following a severe end-of-year winter storm that stretched from America's northern to southern borders. Hundreds of Guard members in Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas and Washington

  • 55th Wing fulfills mission tasks from borrowed airfield

    Every day nearly 450 Airmen from the 55th Wing take the bus to work -- making an hour-long ride that takes them 50 miles away from Offutt Air Force Base, Neb. The wing moved airfield operations and support agencies to the Lincoln Air Park ramp in May to continue flying missions remotely while