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  • 185th Air Refueling Wing Has a Ball

    On November 7, 2009, approximately 400 members of the 185th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) and guests attended the Military Ball held at the Marina Inn Conference Center in Sioux Sioux City, NE. Col. John Mansfield (ret.) was the guest speaker for this year's Military Ball. Mansfield graduated from Sioux

  • New Facility Available For Critical Fire Training

    Using axes and pry bars, members of the 185th ARW Fire Department forced open the door to find a darkened room full of smoke. Water rained down from a sprinkler head covering everything and everyone with water. Firefighters from the 185th pushed their way into the room and with every member working

  • 185th ARW Members Run in the 7th Annual Siouxland Lewis and Clark Marathon

    Fifty Airmen laced up their running shoes and raced in the Seventh Annual Siouxland Lewis and Clark Marathon in Sioux City, Iowa. Airmen from the 185th Air Refueling Wing, sporting custom designed "Team 185th" t-shirts, participated in a full-marathon, half-marathon and five-person relay marathon

  • Teens Wild About 2009 ANG Summit

    Jekyll Island, Georgia is a long way from the rolling plains of Mid-West. For several Siouxland teens it seems a world away. Jessica Mars an eleventh grader at Maurice Orange City-Floyd Valley School in Orange City, Iowa, said, "I have never been to the ocean before, when I first saw it I ran

  • 185th Helping to Save Lives With Marrow Donor Program

    Members of the 185th ARW participated in a Bone Marrow Registry Drive during the September Unit Training Assembley (UTA). After completing some brief paper work, members swabbed the inside of their check to provide a sample to be tested and typed. The samples will be added to a national registry of

  • 133rd Builds Leadership and Bonds

    One-hundred nine Fort Dodge-based Airmen of the 133rd Test Squadron (Iowa Air National Guard) traveled to Volk Field, Wisconsin to build stronger bonds, develop leadership in their younger members and perform their jobs under deployed conditions. The 133rd TS is the smallest of the three Iowa-based

  • Deployed Airmen Honored at Welcome Home Ceremony

    Over 800 airmen, family members, and distinguished visitors crowded into a hanger Saturday morning to honor the men and women of the 185th Air Refueling Wing who have deployed over the previous three years. With a large American Flag at his back, Col. Brian Miller, 185th ARW Commander, gave thanks

  • First-Ever Air and Ag Expo Huge Success

    The 185th Air Refueling Wing at Col Bud Day Field in Sioux City, Iowa, hosted a first-of-its-kind event combining the flying steel of U.S. air power and the ageless iron of antique and modern farm equipment. The inaugural Sioux City Air and Ag Expo drew as many as 20,000 people from the tri-state

  • Antique Planes and Tractors Huge Success at Sioux City Air & Ag Expo

    The day dawned clear and cool Saturday, August 1, 2009, dispelling any concerns the night storms pounding the area may have raised. It was a going to be a beautiful opening day for the first ever Air / Ag Expo at the 185th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) in Sioux City, Iowa. With over 40 pieces of

  • Air Force Racing Car Featured at 185th ARW Air and Ag. Expo

    The Air Force racing car, built and designed by NASCAR's Richard Petty Motorsports, was featured at the 185th Air Refueling Wing's Air and Ag Show at the Sioux City Air National Guard. Steven Johnson, the mobile marketing representative from Richard Petty Motorsports, showed off the sleek, $400,000,

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