This badass pilot is the first female F-35 pilot in the Air Guard
In 2019, the 158th Fighter Wing of the Vermont Air National Guard made history as the first Guard wing to receive the F-35A Lightning II stealth fighter. On September 7,…
Deputy director finds work-life balance in the Air National Guard
New findings in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic reveal millions of women are leaving the workforce after struggling to maintain jobs with increased responsibilities at home. One in four…
This is what happened when a P-51 Mustang chased a UFO over Kentucky in 1948
On a cold afternoon in early January, 1948, control tower operators at Godman Army Airfield in Fort Knox, Kentucky, became aware of the presence of a mysterious object floating in the skies of the base. Reports from nearby highway patrol officers wh…
49ers’ Garland wears a different kind of uniform off the field
When Air Force Academy football player Ben Garland broke his left hand at practice in 2009, Head Coach Troy Calhoun thought he might miss the rest of the season. Garland played that week.
“You thought, ‘My goodness, this guy, he’s a pretty …
Veterans Golden Age Games torch delivered ‘Mission Impossible’ style
Staff Sergeant Tom McArthur of the Alaska Air National Guard practices it regularly: rappelling by rope from a helicopter. Whether it’s to rescue people who are lost in the woods, who are stranded because of a snowmobile accident, or who have been …
Miss America 2011 just joined the Air Force
A former Miss America winner announced on June 12, 2018, that she enlisted in the US Air Force.
Teresa Scanlan, who won the Miss America pageant in 2011, is now an Airman First Class in the Air National Guard,
Everybody involved in that dino puppet reenlistment video just got fired
In the worst military overreaction since the Faber College ROTC pledge pin incident of 1962, the Tennessee National Guard’s adjutant general announced April 18, 2018, that everyone involved in a recent viral video of a kooky reenlistment ceremony w…