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  • 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,

  • Harden retires after 38 years of military service

    Airmen and senior National Guard leaders packed the base Annex Aug. 10 to bid farewell to Col. Michael Harden, a former 123rd Airlift Wing commander and the advisor to the commander of Air Mobility Command.Colonel Harden's retirement marked the end of 38 years of distinguished service that included

  • Civic leaders 'Go Guard'

    Area employers and local civic leaders received a first-hand introduction to National Guard life July 17 when they participated in a civic leader/employer support tour hosted by the Kentucky National Guard.After some initial briefings, participants flew out of the Kentucky Air Guard base aboard one

  • Contingency response group exercises crisis skills

    More than 80 members of the Kentucky Air Guard's 123rd Contingency Response Group deployed here July 11-18 for Exercise Hydra '08, as the US Air Force showcased its emergency airlift capabilities in the only major contingency response exercise to be held on the West Coast this year.Focused on

  • Hurricane evacuees begin arriving at Kentucky Air Guard Base

    As Hurricane Gustav continued to gain intensity in the Gulf of Mexico tonight, hundreds of New Orleans-area evacuees began arriving by aircraft at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base here for transportation to Red Cross shelters across the state of Kentucky.The first airplane, a commercial 757,

  • Services wins top NGB award

    The Kentucky Air Guard's 123rd Services Flight has been named the 2007 Services Flight of the Year by the National Guard Bureau, officials announced June 10.At home station, the 29-member flight operates dining facilities, lodging services, recreational activities, mortuary affairs and honor guard

  • Kentucky Airmen complete Coronet Oak mission

    More than 120 members of the Kentucky Air Guard's 123rd Airlift Wing deployed to Muniz Air National Guard Base here this summer to support Operation Coronet Oak, a mission that provides vital airlift capabilities throughout the Southern Command Area of Responsibility.By ensuring the readiness of