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  • 104th Services Flight trains in Ramstein dining facilities

    Airmen from the 104th Fighter Wing Services Flight, Barnes Air National Guard Base, Westfield, Massachusetts, began their deployment training with active-duty services personnel Tuesday in dining facilities at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, learning key skills to support worldwide operations.The

  • 104th Fighter Wing Performs Change of Command, Confers CCAF Degrees

    The 104th Fighter Wing performed a Change of Command Ceremony and a Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) Graduation today with family members and friends, peers and supervisors in attendance to recognize their achievements.Both the 131st Fighter Squadron and 104th Operations Support Flight

  • Barnstormers participate in new Air Force Inspection

    The 104th Fighter Wing participated in an inspection onsite visit Oct. 31 - Nov. 2 here in preparation for the Unit Effectiveness Inspection Capstone scheduled for June 2015.The inspection is part of the new Air Force inspection program, which focuses on four Major Graded Areas, which includes

  • Fallen F-15 pilot, Academy graduate honored at memorial ceremony

    A fallen F-15 pilot and 1996 graduate of the Air Force Academy was honored by Airmen whose lives he touched during a memorial service at the Cadet Chapel here Oct. 3.Lt. Col. Morris Fontenot Jr. was remembered by his brothers in arms, his daughters and his wife as an outstanding pilot, officer,

  • 104th FW Participates in multinational exercise in Malaysia

    Airmen from the 104th Fighter Wing at Barnes Air National Guard Base here took part in Exercise Cope Taufan 2014, a biennial large force exercise between the Royal Malaysian Air Force and the U.S. Air Force, June 9-20 in P.U. Butterworth, Malaysia.The objective of Exercise Cope Taufan is to enhance

  • Former Massachusetts ANG commander finds joy in long career

    Looking out onto the parade field, seeing the new airmen dressed in blues as they stood at attention in formation, the reviewing officer remembered his own graduation from Basic Military Training in 1976."What am I going to tell these airmen?" he thought to himself.It had been more than 30 years

  • Boss-lift to Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.

    The winter of 2008 marks the last opportunity our unit members have had to nominate their employers for an orientation visit to an Air Force training exercise. 30 employers traveled to Savannah GA with the last training deployment of the A-10s to see the men and women of the 104th Fighter Wing hard

  • Render safe

    "We preserve lives, we don't take lives," said Tech. Sgt. Greg Pauli, 104th Explosive Ordinance Disposal Flight (EOD) member and two time recipient of the Bronze Star.Members of the 104th FW Explosive Ordnance Unit know that they are saving lives while performing the complex, critical tasks

  • Spouses take flight at Barnes

    More than 30 spouses of unit members here took a flight on KC-135 Stratotanker on Friday, October 21, 2010.This flight gives the spouses an idea of what we do out here, said Lt. Col. Dan Nash, the chief of standard evaluation, who helped coordinate the flight.After more than an hour and a half of