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171st ARW conducts Tactical Combat Casualty Care training
March 18, 2022
From left, Air Force Reservist, Senior Airman Katherine Sparks, assigned to the 911th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, 911th Airlift Wing, witnesses Pennsylvania Air National Guardsman, Lt. Col. James Moretti demonstrate his ability to perform life-saving techniques during a Tactical Combat Casualty Care course evaluation on March 16, 2022.
Pa. National Guard medics train as they fight
March 11, 2022
Combat medics with the Pennsylvania National Guard provide security while another renders tactical field care to a simulated casualty as part of the TC8-800 medic sustainment course March 2 at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. The course enabled the 17 participants to train together with other medics outside their home units Feb. 17-March 3.
1-109th Infantry Soldiers leave for Middle East deployment
March 11, 2022
Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, board a plane at Harrisburg International Airport in Middletown, Pa., on March 4, 2022, as they begin a deployment to the Middle East.
Pa. National Guard pilots training course for U.S. Northern Command
March 10, 2022
Army Maj. Justin Cassidy, future operations officer, and Air Force Maj. Shawn Bearinger, Air future operations officer, discuss plan options during a staff training course March 8 at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. The trial course, hosted by U.S. Northern Command, will be the Phase II of the Joint Staff Training Course. The course trained staff on emergency preparedness using a notional Category 2 Hurricane scenario.
Pa. Guard Soldier to retire after 43 years of service
March 3, 2022
Chief Warrant Officer 4 Tracy Steele, maintenance officer for 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion, poses next to a High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle on February 8, 2022. Steele is set to retire in March after serving in the Pennsylvania National Guard for more than 43 years.
Pa. Guard members recount COVID medical missions
February 23, 2022
Spc. Han Thach, left, a combat medic with the Pennsylvania National Guard, administers the COVID-19 vaccine to a patient at Capital Area Intermediate Unit in Enola, Pa., on March 26, 2021. Thach was part of the Pa. National Guard mission to vaccinate Pennsylvania teachers, child-care workers and other staff. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. 1st Class Matthew Keeler)
The Hiker: How a Pa. Guardsman became the national symbol for the Spanish-American War
February 17, 2022
"The Hiker," a statue designed by sculptor Theo Alice Ruggles Hitson, stands outside Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. Leonard Sefing Jr. of Allentown, Pa., a Spanish-American War veteran of the Pennsylvania National Guard, served as the model for the statue. There are more than 50 copies of this statue across the U.S., including monuments in Pottsville, Allentown, Shamokin and Lebanon in Pennsylvania.
171st ARW hosts problem-solving training
February 9, 2022
The 171st Air Refueling Wing logo
171st ARW awarded Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
February 7, 2022
Graphic Illustration with a KC-135 aircraft and an Air Force Outstanding Unit Award with two oak leaf clusters.
Philadelphia’s Gray Invincibles were one of Pa.'s last segregated units
February 3, 2022