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  • 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,

  • Pilots learn about avoiding midair collisions

    The 185th Air refueling Wing's safety office alone with the Federal Aviation Administration partnered together to present a class on midair collision avoidance at the base in Sioux City, Iowa on August  8, 2015."We wanted to invite area pilots to the base and present them information to help keep

  • 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

  • Airmen gather to remember Bellairs

    Airmen with the 185th Air Refueling wing gathered to remember fellow unit member Senior Airman Drew Bellairs during a memorial service held in Sergeant Bluff, Iowa on August 2, 2015.Bellairs died July 25, 2015 when he drowned while swimming at Marbo Cave in Mangilao, Guam. Assigned as an aircraft

  • ANG Band of the Midwest perfectly tuned

    The Air National Guard Band of the Midwest played a variety of music as part of a summer concert series entitled "Heroes Among Us" held here at the historic Grandview Park Bandshell.The 566th band provided multiple ensembles including: Harmony in Blue, Permanent Party and a Concert Band performing

  • Back in Black, Team Air Force returns to Iowa for RAGBRAI

    Dressed in stealthy black, the Air Force cycling team is back in Iowa this week for the 43rd running of Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa bicycle touring event or RAGBRAI.The 125 member team is made up of Active-Duty Air Force, Reserve, National Guard, and Air Force civilian riders.Team

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