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  • 185th members run 38th Lincoln Marathon

    Cold and rain soaked, nearly 13,000 runners along with volunteers turned out to participate in the 38th  running of the Lincoln National Guard Marathon on May 1, 2016 in Lincoln NEB. Members of the Iowa Guard Marathon team from the 185th Air Refueling Wing, 1st Lieutenant Marty Hogan and Senior

  • Sioux City Fire and Rescue renew training with 185th ARW

    Sioux City Fire and Rescue, and Fire Emergency Services from the 185th Air Refueling Wing have always had a good working relationship, according to 185th Fire Emergency Services Fire Chief, Chief Master Sgt. Michael Albrecht, but after more than two decades, Fire Emergency Services and Sioux City

  • Purple up for Iowa military kids

    Digital tiger stripe camouflage is the usual uniform of the day for members of the Iowa Air National Guard in Sioux City. Today however unit members joined with area school students and supporters from across the nation by wearing purple to show support for military children. According to the 4H

  • Woodbury County Engineers office receive Patriot Award

    185th Air Refueling Wing Vice Commander, Col. Scott Plambeck and Mr. Larry Harrington of the Employee Support of the Guard and Reserve, presented a "Patriotic Employer" award to Mr. Mark Nahra and Mr. Forest Johnston of the Woodbury County Engineers office in Moville, Iowa today.Senior Airman Pete

  • Unit recruiter hits 100 enlistments

    A recruiter assigned to the 185th Air Refueling Wing, witnessed the enlistment ceremony of his 100th recruit on April 3, 2016. Staff Sgt. Wesley Rueter recruited Tech. Sgt. Eric Olson to mark the occasion.Col. Scott Plambeck, the Vice Commander of the 185th Air Refueling Wing, read the oath of

  • 185th members run Disney Princess Half Marathon

    Tech. Sgt. Amber Ladwig and Master Sgt. Wendy McLean assigned to the 185th Air Refueling Wing, took part in the Disney Princess half marathon on February 20th and 21st in Orlando, Florida.Ladwig and McLean both participated in the Glass Slipper challenge that included a 10K race on February 20 and a

  • SGLI, life & death issue

    Service members are automatically enrolled in Service Members Group Life insurance or SGLI when they first join the military for up to $400,000. In some cases this may be the first and last time they think about life insurance.Sadly if a service member's SGLI information is not current it could

  • Back from the bone yard

    Covered in dust, a North American Aviation F-100F Super Sabre sat in the desert at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona. Bearing tail number 3880, the once proud aircraft was assigned to the Iowa Air National Guard's 174th Fighter Squadron in Sioux City, Iowa until her retirement when she was sent

  • Plambeck named new vice commander

    Col. Lawrence Christensen, commander of the 185th Air Refueling Wing, announced that Col. Scott Plambeck, 185th Maintenance Group Commander, will be the Wing's new Vice Commander.Plambeck, a native of Sioux City began his military career in 1979 with the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves as a combat radio

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