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  • 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

  • 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

  • Airmen earn German Armed Forces Proficiency Badge

    A 12-kilometer road march with a 33-pound rucksack is not a typical activity that one would find an Airmen participating in, but during the first weekend in November, Senior Airman Josh Davis and Master Sgt. Valerie Rose, members of the Iowa National Guard's 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City,

  • Future Air Guardsmen take the oath of enlistment at hockey game

    The newest members of the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa were given the oath of enlistment at a ceremony during Military Appreciation Night hosted by the Sioux City Musketeers hockey team, at the Tyson Event Center here on November 7, 2015.2nd Lt. William Dahna administered the oath of

  • 185th Awarded 8th Air Force Outstanding Unit Award

    The National Guard Bureau in Washington DC announced that the 185th Air Refueling Wing from Sioux City, Iowa has, for the 8th time, been awarded the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award for exceptionally meritorious service  from November 1, 2013 to October 31, 2015.According to Col. Larry Christensen,

  • Fitness challenge focuses on fitness in fun competition

    With bright shirts and names like 'The Wing Nuts' and 'The Young and the Rest of Us', Airmen with the 185th Air Refueling Wing competed in the base's 2nd Annual Fitness Challenge here on Friday."The Fitness Challenge is a fun way for our members to compete and challenge each other while building

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