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  • Air Guard praises 'outstanding' Airmen

    The Air National Guard recognized its six Outstanding Airmen of the Year (OAY) for 2010 here this week with an award ceremony, a formal banquet and a tour of the nation's capital.Each year, the states and territories select their top performers from the Air Guard's more than 94,000 enlisted

  • Iowa ADT trains with Amish, at Living History Farms

    It was an unlikely scene Wednesday, 18 June, in northeast Iowa Amish country. The uniforms of the Iowa Army and Air National Guardsmen who make up the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agri-Business Development Team (ADT) were quite a contrast with the Amish farmers who opened their mostly unmechanized

  • 185 ARW senior leaders deliver care packages

    185th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) commander Col. Brian Miller and Mission Support Group commander Lt. Col. Joe Ascherl paid a visit Tuesday to the 734th Agri-Business Development Team (ADT) at Camp Dodge, Iowa. Miller and Ascherl came bearing gift boxes for the soldiers and airmen who make up the

  • Iowa National Guard Ag Team Completes "Old School" Training

    In less than two months, the Iowa National Guard's 734th Agri-Business Development Team will relieve the California National Guard's 40th ADT in Afghanistan's Kunar Province. But no ADT goes to Afghanistan without extensive agricultural training, and Iowa's 734th ADT is no exception. Starting in

  • 185th ARW Host Family Fun Day

    Despite the threat of thunder storms, the weather cooperated with members of the 185th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) as they enjoyed their annual 185th Family Fun Day. Hundreds of Airmen and their spouses, children, parents, and significant others gathered at Bluff's Area Family Center in Sergeant Bluff

  • Military Youth Learn Survival Skills

    With camouflage paint on their faces and armed with compass and map, a team of young survivalists trek into the woods. Their objective: locate a can the size of a shoebox without being seen by the rival team. This was one of the activities 14 teens embarked on during Military Youth Survival Day,

  • 185th Public Affairs Members Win In Media Contest

    Three members of the 185th Public Affairs placed in the National Guard Media Contest. This is the 30th year for the contest and it recognizes the work of Army and Air National Guard PA community. Winners will be moved up to the Army and Air Force contests for a chance at winning the Thomas Jefferson

  • Father Inspired to Serve By His Children

    Most service members join the military after high school or college when they are in their late teens or early twenties. However, the 185th's newest member did not follow that pattern. Major (Dr.) Glenn Harden entered military service for the first time at age 56. The swearing in ceremony took place

  • A call for Iowa agricultural knowledge

    (SB) - Neil Stockfleth, former Sergeant Bluff Luton school board member and formerly with the USDA-Natural Resources Conservation Service, is heading to Afghanistan this coming August. A lieutenant colonel with the 185th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Stockfleth's one year mission couples his military

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