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  • Safety office named best in ANG

    The 123rd Airlift Wing Safety Office has been named the top safety unit in the Air National Guard.The National Guard Bureau selected the shop for its Air National Guard Safety Office of the Year Award for accomplishments in 2008, said Maj. Charles Hans, base safety officer.Among those achievements,

  • Mobility exercise marks another step to ORI

    The 123rd Airlift Wing took another step toward next spring's Operational Readiness Inspection with a mobility exercise that processed more than 315 Airmen and nine chalks' worth of cargo through the personnel deployment function here Oct. 24 and 25.The exercise, designed primarily to ensure that

  • Shoop honored for national excellence

    Col. Diana Shoop has been named recipient of the 2008 Brig. Gen. Donald Wagner Administrative Excellence Award, which is bestowed annually on a reserve-component Medical Service Corps officer for outstanding administrative contributions to the Air Force Medical Service.Colonel Shoop, commander of

  • Wagner named top security civilian

    Senior Airman Windy Wagner, a security forces troop who serves as the 123rd Airlift Wing's full-time civilian security program manager, has been named the top security forces civilian in both the Air National Guard and the U.S. Air Force.The awards, bestowed in 2008, recognize Airman Wagner's

  • Ceremony to stand up new Force Support Squadron today

    When it comes to people programs, community support and quality of life, there is now one organization on base to handle it all -- the 123rd Force Support Squadron.The new unit, which will be formally activated today during a 2:30 p.m. ceremony in the Base Annex, is the result of an ongoing Air

  • Wing completes back-to-back deployments

    The 123rd Airlift Wing completed two back-to-back overseas deployments this month that delivered more than 145 tons of cargo and over 500 troops to locations across Europe, the Caribbean and Central and South America.The first deployment saw 72 Kentucky Air Guardsmen and two of the wing's C-130

  • 123rd Airlift Wing supports U.S. Southern Command airlift mission

    The Kentucky Air National Guard began its third major deployment of the year this morning when more than 50 Airmen departed here aboard two Kentucky Air Guard C-130s for San Juan, Puerto Rico.The troops will provide theater airlift for U.S. military operations in the Caribbean and Central and South

  • Kentucky Air Guard deploys overseas for airlift mission

    Seventy-two Kentucky Air Guardsmen deployed overseas this morning aboard two Kentucky Air Guard C-130s to fly airlift missions in support of U.S. military operations around the world.The Airmen, all assigned to the 123rd Airlift Wing here, will operate from Ramstein Air Base, Germany, but will fly

  • Rapid response

    Members of Kentucky Air Guard's 123rd Contingency Response Group airlifted a mobile command post here June 18 as part of Operation Ardent Sentry, a multi-state homeland defense exercise designed to test the military's ability to respond to enemy attacks or natural disasters.The 123rd CRG transported