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13 unusual facts about Air National Guard


283rd Combat Communications Squadron

Georgia's 283rd Combat Communications Squadron is a unit of the Georgia Air National Guard based at Dobbins Air Reserve Base.

CBS News controversies and criticism

On September 8, 2004, two months before the 2004 presidential election, 60 Minutes II broadcast a report by Dan Rather claiming that a series of memos had surfaced criticizing President George W. Bush's service record in the Texas Air National Guard, purportedly discovered in the personnel files of Bush's then-commanding officer, Lt. Col. Jerry B. Killian.

Emmett Ripley Cox

He was in the U.S. Air National Guard from 1958 to 1964, and was in private practice in Birmingham, Alabama from 1959 to 1964, and in Mobile, Alabama from 1964 to 1981.

Hog Island, Philadelphia

Starting in 1925, the Pennsylvania Air National Guard used a small part of Hog Island as a training field for its pilots.

James A. Teilborg

He served in the Air National Guard from 1966 to 1974, and was then a Colonel in the United States Air Force Reserve from 1974 to 1997.

Little Egg Harbor Township School District

On November 4, 2004, at around 9pm, an F-16 Fighting Falcon jet from the 113th Wing of the District of Columbia Air National Guard, based at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland on a training mission at the Fort Dix United States Army installation in Warren Grove was climbing upward at 8,000 feet.

San Gorgonio Mountain

Martin was an Air National Guard pilot and the McDonnell Douglas F-4C he was flying disappeared in a snowstorm and the wreckage was found on the mountain several days later.

Seaside Municipal Airport

Other operations include training flights from Astoria and the Willamette Valley, charter flights, US Coast Guard, and Air National Guard operations.

Team Hoyt

Dick is a retired Lieutenant Colonel in the Air National Guard.

Tuy Hoa Air Base

In June 1967, federalized Air National Guard squadrons were deployed from the United States to supplement the 31st TFW.

VFC-111

The Sun Downers operate as part of the U.S. Navy Reserve's fleet adversary program, providing dissimilar air combat training to fleet strike fighter and Marine fighter attack squadrons, as well as U.S. Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard fighter squadrons.

VFC-13

VFC-13 provides adversary training for Navy and Marine Corps Active and Reserve fleet and replacement squadrons, carrier air wings and Marine aircraft groups, USAF units, to include Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard, and Canadian Forces.

Warren Grove, New Jersey

Fighter jets including A-10's and F-16's from East Coast Air National Guard units use the area for practice bombing and strafing.


223d Combat Communications Squadron

The United States Air Force's 223rd Combat Communications Squadron (223 CBCS) is an Air National Guard combat communications unit located at Hot Springs ANGS, Arkansas.

Andrews Field

In June 2006, the 316th Wing stood up under the command of AFDW as the new host unit for Andrews Air Force Base and its nearly 50 tenant units to include organizations from the U.S. Army, the Air Force Reserve Command, Air National Guard, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve and the Civil Air Patrol.

Boise Airport

Gowen Field Air National Guard Base primarily refers to the military facilities on the south side of the runways, which includes Air National Guard, Army National Guard, and reserve units of the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps.

Dane County Regional Airport

Conveyed to local civil authorities, the Madison Municipal Airport became the home of the Wisconsin Air National Guard and its present day 115th Fighter Wing (115 FW), an Air National Guard fighter wing operationally-gained by the Air Combat Command (ACC) and which still operates from the base, flying the F-16 Fighting Falcon.

Daniel Kraft

He is a Major in the Air National Guard and serves as flight surgeon, originally with an F-15 squadron in the Massachusetts Air National Guard and currently with an F-16 squadron in the 144th Fighter Wing, California Air National Guard, with whom he has deployed to Nicaragua and Saudi Arabia.

Lucia Peak

It was named after Chief master sergeant Charles R. Lucia who served with the 109th Airlift Wing as Chief of Maintenance Control during the transition of LC-130 operations from the U.S. Navy to the Air National Guard.

Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove

Following WWII and into the Cold War, it became an operational and training base for aviation activities of the Naval Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard, Army Reserve and Army National Guard.

Paul A. Weaver

He served as the air commander for the New York Air National Guard, and was responsible for the largest conversion in the history of the Air National Guard, at 105th Airlift Group, Stewart Air National Guard Base, New York.

Rosecrans Memorial Airport

AATTC is made up of full-time Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve personnel dedicated to increasing the warfighting effectiveness and survivability of air mobility forces, providing advanced tactics training to tactical airlift crews and support personnel from the Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve Command, Air Mobility Command, Air Combat Command, Air Force Special Operations Command, the United States Marine Corps, and twelve Allied nations.

Stanley E. Clarke III

He has served in a number of leadership positions including Commander of the 160th Fighter Squadron, Commander of the 187th Fighter Wing, Deputy Director of the Air National Guard, Defense Attache in Turkey, Assistant Adjutant General of the Alabama National Guard, and Commander of the First Air Force.

Tarnak Farm incident

F-16 pilots Major William Umbach and his wingman Major Harry Schmidt were returning to their base after a 10-hour night patrol.

Tarnak Farms

Two passing American F-16s piloted by U.S. Air National Guard Majors Harry Schmidt and William Umbach had mistaken the machine gun and anti-tank weapons flashes of the exercise for enemy fire and dropped a 227-kilogram (500 lb) Mark 82 laser-guided bomb on the Canadian position, despite orders to await confirmation.