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A CH-47 Chinook helicopter from 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion, 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade airlifts a decommissioned UH-1 “Huey” helicopter from the top Blue Mountain near Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, to the installation on June 20, 2025. (Pennsylvania National Guard photo by Wayne V. Hall)
28th ECAB air-lifts decommissioned Huey from mountaintop
By Brad Rhen | June 24, 2025
Soldiers from the 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion, 28th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade air-lifted a decommissioned UH-1 “Huey” helicopter from the top of a mountain near Fort Indiantown Gap to the...

Pennsylvania Air National Guardsman, Senior Airman John Trimbath, assigned to the 171st Civil Engineer Squadron, loads debris into a dump truck while operating an excavator during a deployment for training, Assateague Island, Virginia, June 17, 2025. The 171st engineers are the 5th rotation of 8 during the deployment for training on the island. The DFT has provided engineers with unique training consistent with installing a runway while creating a new road for the Fish and Wildlife Service. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Master Sgt. Bryan Hoover)
Air Guard engineers build roads, skills in Assateague Island project
By Master Sgt. Bryan Hoover | June 23, 2025
The 171st Civil Engineer Squadron is one of six Air National Guard civil engineer units from across the country that are rotating through Assateague Island National Seashore in support of a months-long deployment for training...

Air Force Maj. Gen. Terrence L. Koudelka, Jr., Deputy Adjutant General-Air and Commander of the Pennsylvania Air National Guard, coins Chief Warrant Officer 2 Jonathan DeRivera during a recognition event at Biddle Air National Guard Base, Pennsylvania, May 29, 2025. Maj. Gen. Koudelka recognized both DeRivera and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Brian Mundorff for their historic appointments as the first warrant officers in the Pennsylvania Air National Guard since the rank was reinstated, honoring their leadership and expertise as 17Y and 17W warrant officers. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Matthew Bergh)
111th Attack Wing welcomes Pa. Air Guard’s first two warrant officers since rank reinstatement
By Staff Sgt. Timi Jones | June 20, 2025
The 111th Attack Wing recently appointed the Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s first two warrant officers since the rank was reinstated after 66 years...

A special operations Airman here rolls out a hose during a Forward Arming and Refueling Point tryout at the 193rd Special Operations Wing June 17, 2025. The Airman demonstrated his physical and mental strength to complete challenges in under 15 minutes to qualify for a specialized FARP team, which will further the capabilities and mission of the 193rd SOW. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman Austin Stern)
High-octane refueler: 193rd SOW Airman tries out for specialized FARP team
By Airman Austin Stern | June 18, 2025
Racing against the clock, a fuels specialist with the 193rd Special Operations Wing hauls a 100-foot fuel hose across the flightline, striving to earn a position on a Forward Arming and Refueling Point team, a physically and...

Patricia Ellis, a civilian occupational health nurse with the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, is the PAARNG's oldest employee. She had this portrait taken when she graduated from the Jefferson Diploma Nursing School in 1975. (Courtesy Photo)
Lifetime of service: Pa. Guard’s oldest civilian nurse
By Sgt. Vail Forbeck | June 18, 2025
For more than half a century, one woman has quietly made history from behind a stethoscope. As the Pennsylvania Army National Guard’s oldest working civilian nurse, Patricia Ellis has cared for generations of patients, long...
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