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  • Commander’s Column

    Last week, I was TDY to First Air Force. I was able to hear first hand from many of our Air Force leaders that we are well on our way to becoming the most well respected F-15 unit in the Combat Air Force. That is a tribute to all the hard work you have done: completing the unit's conversion and

  • Commander's Column

    Barnestormers:We achieved two of our FY 2010 goals by becoming operational in the F-15 on 1 Feb and standing up Air Sovereignty Alert on 15 Feb. The road was not easy, yet we still accomplished our objectives due to your hard work and determination. We are now less than one month away from our first

  • Commander’s Column

    Barnestormers, as we wind down 2009 and look ahead to 2010, I want to thank all of you for your service to this great nation. The Air Force has been engaged in combat operations continuously since 1991, and many of you have served multiple times in combat operations, in harm's way. One such

  • Commander's Column

    BarneStormers, practice makes perfect and no example more clearly demonstrates this then our ORE schedule. We are going to continue to practice so that when it's time to demonstrate our abilities during an ORI, we will be ready to succeed. One of the greatest 'Bama coaches of all time, Coach Bear

  • Commander’s Column

    Barnestormers, it's been a few weeks since our last drill and our Phase 1 Operational Readiness Evaluation. While we do have a way to go in terms of improvement, we took a big step in the right direction by starting to build the foundation for those processes. The outside Exercise Evaluation Team

  • Commander's Column

    Barnestormers, thank you all for the way in which you perform your duties. In the past two weeks I have seen us pull together as a family and as a unit. In less than two weeks, we rendered military honors to one of our retired members, buried three family members of those who serve in the 104th, and

  • Commander’s Column

    Welcome to the May UTA. Recently, on April 18th I had the honor of attending the reenactment of the "shot heard around the world" at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Mass. It was a humbling sight to behold, knowing that these men, in 1775, were shooting for the very first time at the "established

  • Commander’s Column

    Barnestormers, Saturday of March drill was a historic day as we launched our first ever aviation deployment in the F-15 Eagle (which, by the way, is owner of a 104 to 0 kill ratio in air to air combat). Our deployment was a huge success as we flew 94 sorties over a two week period and had an overall

  • Drugs Have No Place on Base

    Do you want to ruin and end your military career? Do you want to make it very difficult to find civilian employment? Try using drugs and that's just what will happen. The Air National Guard has a random drug testing policy that could catch anyone anytime who uses drugs. If you do drugs, you will get

  • Commander's Column

    Welcome back from the Holiday Season. My family and I now have a better understanding for the need of snow plows. I want to thank everyone in advance for this upcoming year. We will be faced with many challenges while we are still in conversion. We have Civil Engineering headed to Silver Flag in