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  • Iowa air refueling wing supports NATO AWACS missions

    NATO AIR BASE GEILENKIRCHEN, Germany -- This month, members of the Iowa Air National Guard's 185th Air Refueling Wing based in Sioux City, Iowa, are refueling NATO Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft while assigned here.Approximately 40 members from the 185th are in Germany for two weeks

  • Operation Santa's Sleigh.

    Snow started failing on the afternoon of Dec. 3, 2016 a good time to begin celebrating the holiday season for the friends and family of the members of the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa. Members were also glad the festivities were located inside a heated hangar.Among the various arts

  • Maintenance key to veteran aircraft 60 years’ service

    It was a case of art imitating life during the 1950s when the American automobile industry, fascinated with the smooth lines and curves found in aviation, mimicked them with each new design. Cars were faster than ever before and items borrowed from aviation like wrap around windows, wings, turbines

  • United States Air Force Academy Cadets Visit Iowa Air National Guard Bases

    U.S. Air Force Academy cadets from Colorado Springs, Colo. visited the Iowa National Guard's 185th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), located in Sioux City, the 133rd Test Squadron in Fort Dodge, and the 132nd Wing, located in Des Moines, as Iowa's 1,800 Citizen-Airmen conducted training during November's

  • 185th Airmen train Kosovo partners in new equipment

    Airmen from the Iowa National Guard provided training in the use of new lightweight shoring equipment to members of the Kosovo Security Force (KSF) Civil Protection Unit."The equipment can be used to shore up a leaning wall or a ceiling that is about to collapse," said Master Sergeant Ryan Baker, a

  • Air National Guard Director Rice makes historic visit to Iowa National Guard

    For the first time in the unit's history a sitting director of the Air National Guard, Lt. Gen. Scott Rice, visited the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa over the November 2016 training weekend.The purpose of the visit is part of Rice's initiative to interact directly with Airman who live

  • Red ribbons and recovery

    As part of a renewed emphasis on substance abuse education and prevention in the Iowa National Guard, the 185th Air Refueling Wing care team, held a special event this week as a precursor to Red Ribbon week.Red Ribbon Week, is part of the National Family Partnership that was created in 1985 in

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