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  • ANG paint facility paints P-47 scheme on Thunderbolt II

    A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II from the Idaho Air National Guard’s 124th Fighter Wing is painted with a heritage WWII paint scheme at the Air National Guard paint facility in Sioux City, Iowa. The paint scheme is designed to replicate the look of the original P-47 Thunderbolt as it appeared

  • Finch selected to replace Samenus as 185th Vice Wing commander

    The Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling in Sioux City, Iowa announces selection of Colonel Sonya Finch as next Vice Wing Commander replacing Colonel Stephanie Samenus. Samenus has been selected for a new position with the National Guard Bureau Space Operations.

  • Sioux City Mass Casualty Exercise

    Members of the 185th Air Refueling Wing Fire Department participated in a Federal Aviation Administration directed mass casualty exercise at the Sioux Gateway Airport Brig. Gen Bud Day Field in Sioux City Iowa, May 1, 2021.

  • 185th clinic practices MARE during May training weekend

    After treating a simulated victim, members of the Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing Clinic prepare to move a patient during a Major Accident Response Exercise at the Air National Guard base in Sioux City, Iowa on May 1, 2021.Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Vincent De Groot185th Air

  • Colonel Dennis B. Swanstrom December 29, 1942 – January 30, 2021

    Dennis Swanstrom (Swany) joined the 185th Tactical Fighter Group in April of 1966 during a time when many of his contemporaries were looking for ways to avoid military service. The farm kid from Waverly Neb. had graduated from the University of Nebraska the previous spring, then found his way to the

  • Iowa Army and Air National Guard return home

    Soldiers and Airmen of the Iowa Air and Army National Guard returned home to Iowa this afternoon after spending a week in Washington D.C. for the 59th Presidential Inauguration. 

  • Iowa National Guard to support inauguration

    Soldiers and Airmen from the Iowa Army and Air National Guard will assist federal, state, and local agencies in Washington D.C. in support of the 2021 Presidential Inauguration.

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