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  • 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

  • Salvia Should Worry Parents, Military Members

    You can buy it, legally, in South Sioux City, NE. and its active ingredient is a powerful psychoactive substance originally used by Mayan shamans to induce visions. It is powerfully mood altering, producing intense hallucinations, a near total loss of motor control and in some cases,

  • Vietnam War Hero Not Forgotten

    Forty years ago to the day, First Lieutenant Warren Brown made the ultimate sacrifice over the skies of Southeast Asia. Appropriately, members of his unit, his family, and the local community gathered a year later to pay their respects by dedicating a memorial to Lieutenant Brown. But with time, the

  • Those Pesky RATs

    The July RATS meeting was held at the Pizza Ranch in Sergeant Bluff and 60 RATS and their spouses or guests were in attendance. We were honored to have Col. Brian Miller at the meeting. He told the group that several members of the unit would be returning soon after a deployment in the War on

  • 185th Air Refueling Wing Joins Other Units In Relief Efforts

    Nearly 500 Iowa Air National Guard members from the 185th Air Refueling Wing (ARW), Sioux City, Iowa have been called to duty to provide support for evacuated and displaced residents in several eastern Iowa cities and towns ravaged by the recent river flooding. According to Iowa Governor Chet

  • Air National Guard shores up as flood recedes

    CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AFPN) -- One hundred-fifty Air National Guardsmen from the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa, landed at The Eastern Iowa Airport June 15 to augment the 295 already working with Army National Guard and state agencies in Cedar Rapids as flood waters recede from what is

  • Air, Army National Guard battle floods in Iowa

    DES MOINES, Iowa (AFPN) -- More than 2,500 Air and Army National Guardsmen are teaming with agencies from across the state to battle what has been called the 500-year flood in Central and South Iowa in mid June. More than 1,000 guardsmen are expected to arrive in areas from Cedar Rapids to Iowa City

  • Members of the 185th Honored at Manas Air Base (AB) Awards Ceremony

    Manas AB, Kyrgyzstan - During the monthly awards ceremony for the 376 Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), two members of the 185th Air Refueling Wing (ARW) were recognized. Master Sergeant Thomas Conolly was promoted to the rank of Senior Master Sergeant effective June 1, 2008. He was one of nine enlisted

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