• Top enlisted selected for 2011

    The 157th Air Refueling Wing in December recognized four enlisted Airmen as the best in their category for 2011 in front of wing personel at the annual commander's call.Senior Airman Ryan A. Weeks, an air transportation journeyman with the 157th Logistics Squadron was recognized as the Airman of the

  • Career paths to roadmaps

    Sunday of the January drill brought start to a new process for officers to help gauge their career progressions in order to know where they should be and what they should focus on at any given point in their career paths. Maj. Gen. William N. Reddel III, Brig. Gen. Carol Protzmann, and Brig. Gen.

  • Senator visits Pease Air National Guard Base

    U.S. Senator Kelly Ayotte visited here Feb. 23 to posthumously award a Bronze Star Medal to a World War II veteran's brother and to fly with the 157th Air Refueling Wing on a refueling mission high above New Hampshire and Vermont.Awarded the Bronze Star was Philip Sangenario, who was an Army

  • Student flight, student bright

    The New Hampshire Air National Guard saw two of its newest recruits achieve great success while attending Basic Military Training (BMT) at Lackland Air Force Base this past September. Airman 1st Class Matthew Prugger and Airman 1st Class Jamie Anthony both received the prestigious award of honor

  • Civil engineer wins prestigious Truman Scholarship

    A N.H. Air National Guard civil engineer and a junior at the University of New Hampshire has been selected as a 2011 Truman Scholar, a prestigious national award that provides $30,000 for a graduate education.Senior Airman Brooks Payette was competitively selected as one of 60 recipients who were

  • From airman basic to colonel, Greenwood retires

    With the Vietnam draft lottery denying student deferments, a young Rick Greenwood studying at the University of New Hampshire decided during the summer of 1972 to enlist in the Air Force. He was unaware it was the beginning of a career of service that would take him from an airman basic on active

  • New Hampshire Air Guard on display at El Salvador air show

    Members of the 157th Air Refueling Wing took part in the Ilopango, El Salvador Airshow as part of the National Guard's State Partnership Program, which builds relationships between the National Guard in the states and territories and partnered nations worldwide.Read the full article

  • Air Force chief of staff releases 2012 reading List

    REPOSTED FROM:  http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123285683The Air Force chief of staff announced his latest professional reading list Jan. 6.In a letter to all Air Force personnel, Gen. Norton Schwartz said today's Airmen are among the military's best educated and most inquisitive. "We Airmen are

  • Major accomplishment

    Dover native, Mark F. Sears, was promoted to the rank of major general Saturday, May 1 here at Pease Air National Guard Base (ANGB), N.H.During the promotion ceremony, Sears was presented with the Legion of Merit for his service while assigned as commander of the New Hampshire Air National Guard

  • 2010 Prayer Breakfast in April

    Hey, guess what time it is? It is the Commander's Prayer Breakfast time!The cold cloak of the winter doldrums is being shed replaced with the resplendent beauty of a warm sun, the budding trees and plants and the laughter and song of children playing. A traditional part of this transition from