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From friends to Wingmen: childhood friends serve together with 171st ARW
March 24, 2022 — Two childhood friends now serve together with the 171st Air Refueling Wing... MORE

Staff Sergeants Jerrad Skone and Bob Ruzewski both enlisted in the Air Force in 2016 and transitioned to the Pennsylvania Air National Guard in 2020 after completing their active duty contracts. The two have been best friends since third grade and have followed very similar life paths since.

Pa. National Guard ends COVID response mission
March 23, 2022 — After two years and hundreds of missions across the commonwealth, the Pennsylvania National Guard’s COVID-19 response mission has ended... MORE

Spc. Gary Sowash, a combat medic with Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2/112th Infantry Regiment, Pennsylvania National Guard, administers a COVID-19 vaccine at Lancaster-Lebanon IU13 in Lancaster, Pa., on March 12, 2021. Nearly 90 Pennsylvania National Guard members are supporting COVID-19 vaccination clinics for teachers and school staffs at seven sites across Pennsylvania.

Pa. National Guard is first to field new SIGINT system
March 23, 2022 — The Pennsylvania National Guard recently became the first National Guard in the country to field the new Tactical Dismounted Electronic Warfare and Signals Intelligence system... MORE

Sgt. Emily Rivas, a cryptologic linguist with the 103rd Brigade Engineer Battalion, 56th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, is one of eight Pa. National Guard members training March 17, 2022, at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., on the new Tactical Dismounted Electronic Warfare and Signals Intelligence (TDEWS) system, which filled a major gap in the training of Soldiers in the intelligence Military Occupational Specialties (MOS).

171st ARW conducts Tactical Combat Casualty Care training
March 18, 2022 — The 171st Air Refueling Wing hosted 11 members from the 911th Airlift Wing Aerospace Evacuation Squadron in a Tactical Combat Casualty Care course on March 16... MORE

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 participated in a nine-day medic sustainment course recently at Fort Indiantown Gap... MORE

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 — About 150 Soldiers from 1st Battalion, 109th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 28th Infantry Division departed Pennsylvania March 4 to begin a deployment to the Middle East... MORE

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 — More than 20 members of the Pennsylvania National Guard joint staff along with partners from the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency piloted a three-day staff-training course March 7-9 led by trainers from U.S. Northern Command. ... MORE

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, a maintenance officer for the 2-104th General Support Aviation Battalion, will soon retire from the Pennsylvania National Guard after more than 43 years of service... MORE

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 — As the Pennsylvania National Guard approaches the two year mark of supporting COVID-19 medical missions, several service members who have been on orders for an extended period of time recount their experiences... MORE

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 — A Spanish-American War veteran from the Pennsylvania National Guard served as the model for a statue of a Spanish-American War Soldier that can be found in more than 50 communities across the United States... MORE

"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.