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10 Illinois National Guard Soldiers and Airmen working with the East St. Louis Health Department’s COVID-19 immunization program dedicate long hours each day to protect the health of the community’s residents by administering life-saving COVID-19 vaccines. So what do these troops do in their spare time? At least one group of troops protect the health of the community’s residents, this time by dedicating many honors to the F.R.E.S.H. Community Training Garden in East St. L...

Mar 8, 2021 179 Deploys to Middle East MANSFIELD, Ohio – Approximately 150 members of the Ohio Air National Guard’s179thAirlift Wing (AW) recently departed for a deployment to the Middle East in support of Operation Spartan Shield. A majority of the members are from the 164th Airlift Squadron and179thMaintenance Group. They will be flying and maintaining the C-130H aircraft as part of intra-theater operations across the area of responsibility. Members of the179thAirlift Wing, Ohio Air Nat...

By JOSEPH DITZLER | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 26, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See more staff and wire stories here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. TOKYO — U.S. military commands in Japan reported four new coronavirus cases as of 6 p.m. Friday as the daily count in the capital city fell again below 300. The state of emergency Japan set up to cu...

SC National Guard appoints one of its top officials Noah Feit, The State (Columbia, S.C.) Feb. 23—The South Carolina National Guard has a new person in one of its top leadership positions. Greer resident William R. Kyzer II will be the next state command sergeant major for the South Carolina Army National Guard, spokeswoman Capt. Jessica Donnelly said Tuesday in a news release. The command sergeant major is considered one of the top-ranking enlisted officers in the Army and Ai...

19 Columbia, S.C. – The South Carolina National Guard announces U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. William R. Kyzer II as the next state command sergeant major for the South Carolina Army National Guard. Kyzer will serve as the 13th state command sergeant major. In this role, he will be the advisor to the assistant adjutant general-Army, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. David Jenkins, and other key leaders on matters of health and welfare of the Soldiers assigned to the South Carolina Army Nat...

The tiny tech lab that put AI on a spyplane has another secret project February 11 A U-2 flies above the Sierra Nevada Mountain Range, California, Mar. 23, 2016. (Staff Sgt. Robert M. Trujillo/U.S. Air Force) WASHINGTON — It started as a dare. When Will Roper, then the Air Force’s top acquisition official, visited Beale Air Force Base in California last fall, he issued a challenge to the U-2 Federal Laboratory, a five-person organization founded in October 2019. The team was establish...

By ERICA EARL | STARS AND STRIPES Published: February 4, 2021 Stars and Stripes is making stories on the coronavirus pandemic available free of charge. See other free reports here. Sign up for our daily coronavirus newsletter here. Please support our journalism with a subscription. TOKYO — At U.S. bases across Japan, planners are arranging Super Bowl viewing parties they say are safe alternatives to small, private gatherings that have sparked several coronavirus clusters since November. T...

The historic moment occurred at Beale Air Force Base in California, on Tuesday An AI system, named ARTUµ, took control of a U-2 Lady Dragons radar sensors and tactical navigation systems during the two-and-half-hour sortie No weapons were featured and the plane was still being steered by the pilot ARTUµ searched for enemy missiles while the pilot hunted for adversary aircraft The AI and human worked in tandem while both sharing the U-2s radar Officials celebrated the feat as a watershed mom...

Col. Michele Kilgore, commander of the 109th Airlift Wing since 2017, taking Pentagon job Related Media Col. Michele Kilgore, the commander of the 109th Airlift Wing, at the South Pole in February, 2020. Kilgore is leaving the wing after three years in command. Col. Michele Kilgore, the commander of the 109th Airlift Wing speaks to the press during an event in New York City in 2019. Kilgore is leaving the wing after three years in command. SCOT...