March 2019 Gallery

Capt. Rachael Wheeler, a nurse practitioner at the 179th Airlift Wing in Mansfield, Ohio, enlisted in the Air National Guard in a maintenance position while she went through nursing school at The Ohio State University. After getting her degree, she transitioned into a medical position where she uses her skills to help keep members ready to serve. She says the opportunity to assist service members with their medical needs is what keeps her in the military.

~ READ STORY |  179TH AIRLIFT WING

Senior Airman Haelie Egbert is an aerospace propulsion technician assigned to the Ohio Air National Guard’s 180th Fighter Wing in Swanton, Ohio. Her role as an F-16 jet engine mechanic is to maintain the wing’s Pratt & Whitney 229 engines through time-sensitive inspections, repairs and test runs, providing the highest quality engines for the mission while ensuring the safety of the wing’s pilots.

~ READ STORY |  180tTH Fighter Wing

Keeping the airfield safe

Senior Airman Sienna Krise is an airfield manager assigned to the Ohio Air National Guard’s 180th Fighter Wing. Her role as an airfield manager is essential to the safety of the wing’s flying mission by ensuring that airfields are safe and clear of debris and wildlife, as well as confirming pilots meet all requirements necessary to fly.

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Airman, Mother, Nurse

Maj. Devin Conway, a clinical nurse at the 179th Airlift Wing, has served in the Air Force in the medical field for the past 19 years. In the civilian world she is a registered nurse and does perinatal education and lactation, helping families learn how to care for babies.

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Airman helps ensure wing’s medical readiness

Tech. Sgt. Sarah Lewis, health services administrator with the 179th Airlift Wing Medical Group, uses her medical knowledge and experience to help ensure the health and readiness of the unit’s Airmen, so they are deployable for missions at home and around the world. Lewis is currently working on earning her bachelor’s degree in social work, and wants to specialize in aiding service members with trauma.

~ READ STORY |  179th Airlift Wing

Beyond Endurance: Keeping Airmen Safe in the Most Inhospitable Place on Earth

Senior Master Sgt. Joseph Carter, an occupational safety and health manager assigned to the 180th Fighter Wing in Swanton, Ohio, spent two months in Antarctica on a mission to improve safety procedures for the Airmen of the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing, giving them a better chance to survive and operate in the most inhospitable place on Earth. The Airmen in Antarctica support Operation Deep Freeze, the military component of the U.S. Antarctic Program, managed by the National Science Foundation.

~ READ STORY |  WATCH VIDEO |  180th FIGHTER WING

179th Airlift Wing members return from deployment

Airmen from the 179th Airlift Wing are greeted by their family members as they return to their home station March 7, 2019, in Mansfield, Ohio. While deployed to Southwest Asia in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, the wing’s C-130H Hercules aircrews completed over 49,000 bundles dropped, 16,500 passengers safely delivered and 3,200 flight hours

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Ohio Army National Guard's top Soldier, NCO State Best Warrior Competition

Soldiers prepare to fire M4 carbines and M9 pistols for the stress shoot event as part of the Ohio Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition March 2, 2019, at Camp Sherman Joint Training Center in Chillicothe, Ohio. The objective of the competition was to determine the best, most competent Soldier and noncommissioned officer to represent the state in the Army National Guard Region IV BWC, scheduled for May 7-10 at Fort Custer Training Center near Augusta, Michigan.

~ READ STORY |  SPECIAL TROOPS COMMAND (Provisional)

Hungarian military competes in Ohio’s Best Warrior Competition for first time

For the first time in the history of the quarter century State Partnership Program pairing between the Ohio National Guard and Hungary, members of the Hungarian Defence Forces competed in the annual Ohio Army National Guard Best Warrior Competition. Ohio and Hungary have been paired since 1993 through the Department of Defense SPP, which aims to foster civil-military relationships between U.S. National Guard states and militaries from nearly 80 nations around the world.

~ READ STORY |  STATE PARTNERSHIP PROGRAM |  HUNGARY since 1993

174th ADA Brigade-led task force concludes mission to Israel

U.S. Army Soldiers, including those from the Ohio National Guard's 174th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, stand for a photo March 25, 2019, following the closing ceremony for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system deployment to Israel. The ceremony marked the conclusion of the first-ever deployment of a THAAD battery, along with other supporting troops and equipment, to Israel under the Department of Defense’s Dynamic Force Employment concept.

~ READ STORY  |  ~ 174TH AIR DEFENSE ARTILLERY BRIGADE