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  • Assistant adjutant for Air pins on first star

    The Kentucky National Guard welcomed its newest star Nov. 2 when former 123rd Airlift Wing commander Mark Kraus was promoted to brigadier general during a ceremony held in the Base Annex.Brig. Gen. Kraus' silver stars were pinned on by Maj. Gen. Edward W. Tonini, Kentucky's adjutant general, and

  • Hunt retires after 34 years of dedicated service

    The men and women of the Kentucky National Guard gathered in the Base Annex Oct. 4 to pay tribute to Brig. Gen. Howard P. Hunt III on the occasion of his retirement from more than three decades of faithful military service.General Hunt officially stepped down as the assistant adjutant general for

  • Last remaining veteran of Pueblo Crisis retires

    Jerry Buehner was just 18 years old in 1968 when he and his fellow 123rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing Airmen were called to duty for the historic Pueblo Crisis.After returning to the wing in 1992 following an 18-year break in service, the master sergeant retired Oct. 5, becoming the last remaining

  • Pope memorializes Ky. Airman

    Tech. Sgt. Christopher A. Matero, a Kentucky combat controller who was killed in the line of duty, now has a road in his name at Pope Air Force Base, N.C.Matero Drive, named in his honor earlier this year, is home to a new building for the Air Force Combat Control School. Before enlisting in the

  • Rodeo tests skills of Air Force, Canadian special tacticians

    The shouts rang out: "Go, Go, Go!" as ropes were lowered, "bullets" flew and boots hit the ground.Airmen from the Kentucky Air National Guard's 123rd Special Tactics Squadron were launching a simulated rescue operation into "hostile" territory here as part of a competition between teams of elite Air

  • Ceremony marks new era of base leadership

    The 123rd Airlift Wing's new commander hit the ground running Oct. 5 with a promise to seek additional missions, volunteer for more assignments and embrace a forward-leaning approach to all aspects of military and personal readiness.Speaking to 1,100 members of the Kentucky Air Guard who had

  • Engineers Head North

    Three-dozen Civil Engineers from the 123rd Airlift Wing upgraded Canadian Armed Forces facilities during ExerciseWinged Beaver here in July.Over the course of two weeks, the Airmen completed renovations and improved the usability of facilitiesat the Canadian Army's Fort Garry Horse and Mintos

  • Hurricane evacuees begin flights home from Kentucky Air Guard Base

    Hundreds of New Orleans-area residents who were evacuated to Kentucky last week to escape Hurricane Gustav began boarding commercial airliners here today for return flights home.The first 96 evacuees left the Kentucky Air Guard flightline at 11:30 a.m. Eastern Time en route to Louis Armstrong New

  • Field training boosts wing's combat readiness

     The only potential threat was intense heat and humidity, but the combat-readiness training was as real as it gets for about 200 members of the 123rd Airlift Wing who deployed here to the Air National Guard training complex from July 20-26.Those Airmen fired weapons, donned chemical warfare suits,