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  • Wright wins AMC safety award

    Senior Master Sgt. Barry Wright, the 123rd Airlift Wing's safety and occupational health manager, has been named one of the top safety professionals in the U.S. Air Force.Air Mobility Command leaders recently selected Sergeant Wright for its 2008 AMC Distinguished Individual Safety Award. The honor

  • Special tactics assists with flood relief

    Seven members of the wing's 123rd Special Tactics Squadron deployed across Louisville Aug. 4 to assist emergency-management officials with swift-water rescue operations after storms dumped a record six inches of rain on the city in less than two hours.The Airmen were dispatched to multiple

  • 123rd's Woods named top ANG troop

    The Air National Guard named a member of the 123rd Airlift Wing as one of its six Outstanding Airmen of the Year, beginning a weeklong celebration June 6 as the honorees arrived here to receive their awards.Tech. Sgt. Robert Woods, an explosive ordnance disposal technician in the wing's 123rd Civil

  • Governor signs law giving tax break to military members

    Many Kentucky National Guardsmen will take home more money next year thanks to a new state law that exempts military pay from Kentucky income tax. The measure, signed into law by Gov. Steve Beshear on June 26, applies to any military member -- active duty, Guard or Reserve -- whose home of record is

  • Agriculture team begins Afghanistan mission

    The global war on terror took on a new dimension July 6 with the departure of the Kentucky National Guard's Agribusiness Development Team for Afghanistan. Comprised of 64 Soldiers and Airmen with a variety of skills and background in agricultural matters, the team's mission is to teach the citizens

  • Kentucky Air Guard supports statewide pandemic exercise

    National Guard officials stood up a joint task force command center here Aug. 3 in support of the largest disaster-response exercise in state history. Staffed by about 40 Airmen and Soldiers from the Louisville-based 123rd Airlift Wing and a variety of Army National Guard units across Kentucky, the

  • Peters named as installation inspector general

    Lt. Col. Jeff Peters has been selected as the new base Inspector General and will take charge of the wing's Complaints Resolution Program (CRP) this month.Colonel Peters began his Air Force career as an active-duty weather officer in 1985. He remained on active duty for 9 1/2 years before moving to

  • FEMA selects 123rd Medical Group for training on new biohazard system

    Members of the wing's 123rd Medical Group are enhancing their homeland-defense skills by training on a new chemical and biological decontamination system.The Kentucky Air Guard unit was hand selected by officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency to receive the Reeves Decontamination