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Biddle Air National Guard Base hosts ESGR Bosslift
July 9, 2025 — The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve in Pennsylvania recognized civilian employers during a Bosslift event at Biddle Air National Guard Base June 25... MORE

111th Attack Wing members give their employers a first hand look at their unique job roles as part of the ESGR Bosslift event at Biddle Air National Guard Base in Horsham, Pa., June 25, 2025. The Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) Bosslift gave civilian employers a firsthand look at their employees’ military duties and the capabilities of the 111th Attack Wing and the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Tech. Sgt. Timi Jones)

Mount Gretna: Fort Indiantown Gap’s predecessor
July 1, 2025 — The Pennsylvania National Guard began training at its first permanent training site in Mount Gretna 140 years ago... MORE

Pennsylvania National Guard Soldiers train at the Pennsylvania State Military Reservation at Mount Gretna in southern Lebanon County in 1913. (Library of Congress photo)

28th ECAB air-lifts decommissioned Huey from mountaintop
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 installation June 20... MORE

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)

Air Guard engineers build roads, skills in Assateague Island project
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 project... MORE

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)

111th Attack Wing welcomes Pa. Air Guard’s first two warrant officers since rank reinstatement
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... MORE

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)

High-octane refueler: 193rd SOW Airman tries out for specialized FARP team
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 technically demanding role essential to special operations missions at the wing and worldwide... MORE

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.

Lifetime of service: Pa. Guard’s oldest civilian nurse
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 before many of today’s recruits were even born... MORE

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.

Enduring brotherhood of the Pennsylvania-Lithuania partnership
June 18, 2025 — More than a decade ago amid the harsh conditions of Afghanistan, two soldiers, one from the Pennsylvania National Guard and the other from the Lithuanian armed forces, built a bond through shared sacrifice... MORE

Lithuanian Command Sgt. Maj. Ruslanas Gulevas, senior enlisted leader of the Grand Duke Algirdas Infantry Battalion, Lithuanian Land Forces, left, and U.S. Army Command Sgt. Maj. Jason L. Barclay, senior enlisted advisor for 1st Battalion, 111th Infantry Regiment, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Pennsylvania Army National Guard, tour Fort Indiantown Gap as part of a bilateral engagement through the State Partnership Program, June 15, 2025.

Precision and camaraderie highlights 2-gun steel shoot
June 18, 2025 — Soldiers with the Pennsylvania and Maryland National Guard joined civilian staff in a test of skill and speed at the 2025 2-Gun Steel Shoot here, June 14, 2025... MORE

A competitor engages steel targets during the 2025 FTIG 2-Gun Steel Shoot at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, June 14, 2025.

Pa. National Guard observes U.S. Army’s 250th Birthday
June 16, 2025 — The Adjutant General of Pennsylvania Maj. Gen. John R. Pippy, joined by other Army senior leaders and elected officials gathered in Philadelphia June 14 to mark the U.S. Army’s 250th Birthday in the city where it was born... MORE

PHILADELPHIA – The Adjutant General of Pennsylvania Maj. Gen. John R. Pippy, joined by other Army senior leaders and elected officials gathered here today to mark the U.S. Army’s 250th Birthday in the city where it was born.