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  • 185th ARW commemorates 9/11 and 75th anniversaries

    Airmen of the Iowa Air National Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing took part in a 9/11 20th anniversary ceremony in Sioux City Iowa, September 11, 2021. The Ceremony, which was held on a regular training weekend, also commemorated the 75th anniversary of the formation of the 185th.

  • Family Legacy in the Iowa Air National Guard

    Lucas Kornder, like each of his three brothers before him, was sworn in the Iowa Air National Guard at the 133rd Test Squadron in Fort Dodge, Iowa, on September 2, 2021.

  • Whiteman AF Reserve A-10 gets gas

    A U.S. Air Force A-10 Thunderbolt II from the 442nd Fighter Wing, U.S. Air Force Reserve, Whiteman Air Force Base, grins for a photo outside the boom pod of a KC-135 while receiving fuel near the border of Iowa and Missouri on July 7, 2020.U.S. Air National Guard photo: Senior Master Sgt. Vincent De

  • U.S. Air National Guard units support 2021 Formidable Shield exercise

    U.S. Air National Guard units from Iowa, Maine and Ohio are in the United Kingdom this week participating in multinational missile defense exercise Formidable Shield 2021.“Formidable Shield” is a biennial, live-fire exercise designed to test participating nations integrated air and missile defense

  • Colonel Dennis B. Swanstrom December 29, 1942 – January 30, 2021

    Dennis Swanstrom (Swany) joined the 185th Tactical Fighter Group in April of 1966 during a time when many of his contemporaries were looking for ways to avoid military service. The farm kid from Waverly Neb. had graduated from the University of Nebraska the previous spring, then found his way to the

  • Lincoln the dog joins 185th care team

    Lincoln, an English Cream Golden Retriever puppy is in training to become a full time therapy dog at the Iowa Air Guard’s 185th Air Refueling Wing in Sioux City, Iowa.

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