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  • Senator Brown tours Mansfield facilities

    Senator Sherrod Brown and his aides stopped by his hometown of Mansfield at the 179th Airlift Wing on Wednesday, Oct. 26, to see the new C-27J aircrafts and to tour the newly built Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers and Mansfield Armed Forces Reserve Center

  • Crestview High School adopts 179th Airlift Wing

    Crestview High School adopted the 179th Airlift Wing as part of Operation Buckeye Guard, a local grassroots movement in the State of Ohio. This is the first time an Air National Guard unit has been a part of this community based partnership."This unbelievable partnership shows a great connectedness

  • 179 Airlift Wing partners with OSU on completing degrees

    If the Enlisted Force Advisory Council has their way, soon non-commissioned officers in E-8 and above slots will be required to complete their Community College of the Air Force associates degrees. To help foster this environment of focusing on continuing one's education and becoming well rounded in

  • 179th Airlift Wing kicks off wind study

    The 179th Airlift Wing has kicked off a six-month study to measure wind speed and wind direction as part of our alternative energy initiatives. On Sept. 15, a 65-foot Anemometer Tower was placed between buildings 300 and 422. This location was selected and approved by the Federal Aviation

  • 179th Gives Back for National Day of Caring

    On Aug. 11, 2011, the 179th Airlift Wing participated in the United Way National Day of Caring by helping two area agencies. The Raemelton Equestrian Center and the newly opened Little Buckeye Children's Museum handpicked the 179 AW to help with projects at their locations, said Capt. Aimee A.

  • Suicidologist encourages members to reconnect

    Dr. Mary Bartlett, a Suicidologist, was in Mansfield on Sept. 17, 2011, to speak with members of the 179th Airlift Wing about the importance of reconnecting with each other and their personal support systems. "You don't need a PhD to save lives," she told the audience.Bartlett was brought to the

  • Our new Director of Psychological Health

    In today's Air Force, there are numerous stressors that our Airmen face on a day-to-day basis. Deployments are at an all time high for many career fields and it can become tough to deal with all of the things that are going on in ones life. Here at the 179th Airlift Wing we have witnessed, first

  • Recruiters learn new leads process at Cleveland National Air Show

    Recruiters and volunteers from the 179th Airlift Wing were on hand this weekend at the Cleveland National Air Show to promote the Air National Guard and train on new recruiting equipment and techniques.By partaking in this large scale recruiting effort, the recruiters from the 179th AW got to train

  • New airframe, squadron on Kandahar Airfield

    Members of the 451st Expeditionary Operations Group welcomed their newest unit, the 702nd Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, here at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, recently.The 702 EAS is a tactical transport squadron comprising Army and Air Force Guard members flying C-27J Spartans to provide support