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  • 185th Air Refueling Wing Security Forces Returns Home

    Six months, 186 days. That's the length of time 32 members of the 185th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) Security Forces Squadron spent securing the base at Eskan Village, Saudi Arabia. Six months may not seem like a lot of time to some, but when you're away from family and friends and the comforts of home,

  • Ragbrai Riders Wanted

    Since 1972 the Des Moines Register has sponsored what has become the largest organized bicycle ride in the world. RAGBRAI (Registers annual great ride across Iowa). Bike Air National Guard, or "BANG", is a cycling club that has participated in Ragbrai since 1987. The club has members from the 185th

  • Air Guard Goes Green

    President Theodore Roosevelt once said, "To exist as a nation, to prosper as a state, and to live as a people, we must have trees." Lieutenant Cornel Neil Stockfleth with the 185th Air Refueling Wing civil engineering must have taken him at his word because he was happy to have the chance to plant

  • Air National Guard is in their blood

    Keeping military planes in the air has become something of a tradition for the Mader family. Last summer, that tradition put all three of the family's Iowa Air National Guard members in the Middle East, near the frontlines of the war against terrorism. Tech. Sgt. William Mader, of Fort Dodge, was in

  • Unit Background

    The 133rd Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron was formed on June 1st 1948 and saw its first action during the Korean War in 1951. Since then the 133rd spent the half century watching the skies, serving all around the globe in missions such as air battle management, refueling, early warning,

  • Guard unit says goodbye to Father McCoy, welcome to Father Vit

    On Oct. 4 Father Al McCoy celebrated his last Mass before retiring as auxiliary chaplain at the 185th Air National Guard in Sioux City. While his decade of chaplain service to the unit didn't include "safaris or stuff like that," Father McCoy said he still enjoyed celebrating Mass for the service

  • Family Fun Day

    On October 4 2008, the 185th Air Refueling Wing hosted a Family Fun Day. Several hundred family members participated in the events, which included a Wingman Day activity, carnival, confined space trailer, case lot sale and seminars designed for military families. Wingman Day started with

  • 185th Fire Department Participates in Live Fire Exercise

    In August, the 185th Air Refueling Wing Fire Department got to take part in a three day intensive training opportunity when the University of Missouri brought the Mobile Aircraft Rescue Firefighter Trainer, or MARFT, to Sioux City, Iowa. According to Dan Williams, Assistant Chief of Training, the

  • Unit Compliance Inspection Wrap-Up

    Over the past year, Airmen of the185th Air Refueling Wing, Sioux City, Iowa spent countless hours accomplishing reams paperwork, reviewing checklists, and ensuring unit members performed and documented tasks according to guidelines of Air Force Instructions. The months of preparation, attention to

  • Civil Engineering Airman Train in Norway

    Members of the 185th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Iowa Air National Guard, Civil Engineering Squadron (CE), deployed for a training mission to the 137th Royal Air Force, at Rygge Air Force Base, Norway. Forty-two members were attached with Army Engineering Officers from the Norwegian Military Academy

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