• Wheaton wins AFA award

    Senior Master Sgt. Robert B. Wheaton, 157th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron superintendent, was recently awarded the Chief Master Sgt. Dick Red Air Force Association Award as the top aircraft maintainer in the Air National Guard."SMSgt Wheaton is an exceptional leader, senior noncommissioned officer,

  • Call for nominations: Portraits in Courage, Vol. IX

    Nominations are being accepted and reviewed for inclusion in Portraits in Courage, Vol. IX, now through Oct. 13."For seven years now Portraits in Courage has told Airmen's stories of courage, valor and heroism," said Lt. Col. Paul Baldwin, the Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs Engagement

  • Service members receiving RAND military workplace survey

    About 580,000 service members have begun receiving emails or letters inviting them to participate in the first RAND Military Workplace Study, Defense Department officials said.Active and reserve component members in all military branches and the Coast Guard are being invited to participate."The

  • Pease ANGB selected to receive KC-46A Pegasus

    Air Force officials announced Aug. 6, Pease Air National Guard Base, New Hampshire as the Air Force's first Air National Guard-led KC-46A Pegasus main operating base."The KC-46A Pegasus aerial tanker remains one of our top acquisition priorities. Making a final basing decision is an important step

  • LRS superintendent selected for national-level award

    Senior Master Sgt. Jeffrey N. Trudeau, 157th Logistics Readiness Squadron Fuels Management Flight superintendent, was recently named as this year's Gen. Lew Allen Jr. Award recipient.The award, which recognizes work with aircraft during sortie generation, is given annually to honor a base-level

  • Traditional member of the quarter named

    Senior Airman Alex Waitner, 157th Operations Group combat crew communication specialist, was named the New Hampshire Air National Guard Traditional Guard Person of the Quarter during the Ops Group roll call here Aug. 2.The award is presented quarterly to a traditional guardsman that meets the

  • 64 ARS commander takes reigns of TFI squadron

    Lt. Col. Bradley R. Stevens, who took over as 64th Air Refueling Squadron commander June 8, is excited to continue developing the active duty squadron assigned here as part of the Air Force's Total Force initiative, known also as TFI. The goal of TFI is to combine the strengths of both the active

  • Pease 7k overwhelming success

    More than 100 past and present from the New Hampshire Air National Guard community participated in the Pease 7K Road Race to raise more than $5,000 for Pease Kids' Corps and the Pease Minuteman Fund, July 20. The event, which was for adults and children alike and also featured events for children

  • Motorcycle training offered to active duty, ANG Airmen

    The Air Force has had 10 motorcycle related fatalities since the beginning of this fiscal year. Two of those fatalities have occurred since the start of the Critical Days of Summer campaign. In an attempt to prevent others, 157th Air Refueling Wing Safety officials encourage Airmen to factor risk

  • Wing stands down critical aerial refueling mission

    The Northeast Tanker Task Force, known also as NETTF, stood down a 24/7 alert commitment July 31 at 8 a.m. after nearly 13 years of flying aerial refueling missions over New York City and other metropolitan cities, 157th Air Refueling Wing officials announced.The men and women of the 157th Air