The Air National Guard is retiring its entire fleet of 11 RC-26 Condors, the Air Force said Jan. 6. The twin-prop plane had an often under-the-radar but sometimes controversial role as a reconnaissance aircraft used for both counterdrug and homeland security missions. A converted civilian ...
The push to secure free health insurance for members of the National Guard and Reserve regardless of duty status gained momentum in the past few days, as a bipartisan pair of Senators introduced legislation that would expand coverage and First Lady Jill Biden hosted National Guard leaders ...
As part of Air & Space Forces Magazine’s commemoration of the Air Force’s 75th anniversary, we interviewed all of the living former Chiefs of Staff. In this part of the series, we feature CSAF No. 20 Gen. Mark A. Welsh.
Maj. Gabbe Kearney moderated a discussion on "Secret Weapons: Guard & Reserve" with Lt. Gen. Michael A. Loh, Air National Guard; Lt. Gen. John P. Healy, Air Force Reserve; and Maj. Gen. Daryl L. Bohac, Nebraska National Guard at AFA's Air, Space & Cyber Conference. ...
With the Russian army pummeling Ukraine in Europe, and China increasingly threatening its neighbor Taiwan militarily in the Indo-Pacific, the Air National Guard has embraced the culture of can-do innovation at the core of agile combat employment.
The Brazilian Air Force is increasing engagements with the United States in recent years, led by its partnership with the New York Air National Guard, which began in 2019. This week, more than 100 mid-career officers from Brazil's Air Force Command and Staff College and ...
After three months in Europe, Airmen from the Vermont Air National Guard and their F-35s returned home in early August, completing the first overseas deployment of the Guard’s first F-35 unit. Their presence in the region was needed to relieve F-35s from the 34th Fighter ...
As the Air National Guard moves forward with its plans to replace aging C-130Hs with new C-130Js, it has decided where it wants to base its formal training unit for the new aircraft—Little Rock Air Force Base, Ark.
Heather Penney, senior resident fellow at the Air Force Association's Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies hosts Maj. Gen. John Healy, deputy to the chief of the Air Force Reserve; Lt. Gen. Michael Loh, director of the Air National Guard; and Maj. Gen. Daryl Bohac, adjutant ...
Aging aircraft, limited sustainment funds, and still in-progress modernization are all combining to cause some concerns about readiness gaps in the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard, leaders said last week during the AFA Warfare Symposium.
Unvaccinated Airmen from the Oklahoma Air National Guard who don’t have an approved or pending religious or administrative accommodation to the Pentagon’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate are no longer allowed to drill, announced the state’s adjutant general, Brig. Gen. Thomas H. Mancino.
Oklahoma Air National Guard Lt. Col. Michael Coloney received the Distinguished Flying Cross—the nation’s fourth-highest award for valor in combat—for his actions during a Taliban attack in Afghanistan in 2018.