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  • Iowa Air Guard’s 185th ARW to deploy nearly 300 Airman

    This fall nearly 300 members of the Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing are scheduled to depart Sioux City, for what will be one of the largest deployments in recent history of the unit. As part of the pre-deployment activities, during the August 2017 training weekend, deploying unit

  • 146 New Airmen Enlisted

    • This article originally appeared in the Iowa National Guard Hawkeye Newsletter in August of 1965. Author unknown.

  • 185th Airmen join other units to test their ability to respond to disaster

    A tsunami is typically not a natural disaster that Iowa based Air National Guard Airmen with the 185th Air Refueling Wing would think about having to deal with. But that is the scenario that 35 Airmen from the unit’s medical group found themselves dealing with during their participation in Oregon’s

  • Nebraska Civil Air Patrol visits 185th ARW

    Members of the Nebraska Wing of the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) got to witness an in-flight refueling up close during a visit to the Iowa Air National Guard’s, 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa, Thursday to learn more about the Air Force, Air National Guard and the 185th ARW mission.

  • Community welcomed during 185th ARW open house

    The Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing held an open house event for the community in Sioux City Iowa, June 10, 2017. Members of the community viewed static displays of U.S. Air Force, Navy and Army aircraft, enjoyed food and drinks from vendors and had a chance to participate in a 5k

  • Operation Santa's Sleigh.

    Snow started failing on the afternoon of Dec. 3, 2016 a good time to begin celebrating the holiday season for the friends and family of the members of the 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa. Members were also glad the festivities were located inside a heated hangar.Among the various arts

  • Maintenance key to veteran aircraft 60 years’ service

    It was a case of art imitating life during the 1950s when the American automobile industry, fascinated with the smooth lines and curves found in aviation, mimicked them with each new design. Cars were faster than ever before and items borrowed from aviation like wrap around windows, wings, turbines

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