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  • Tucson ANG tests incident response at airport’s emergency exercise

    Airmen from the 162d Wing conducted hands-on training in a multi-agency emergency exercise hosted by the Tucson Airport Authority, March 10 at the Tucson International Airport. Fifteen of the wing’s security forces and fire personnel trained alongside city, county, and national agencies in the

  • The Magic Continues

    Airmen and soldiers from the Arizona National Guard attended the My Air Guard Incentive Career, or MAGIC event at Pima Community College West Campus Feb. 10. The event originated in the maintenance group in 2010 when a group of Unit Career Advisors recognized the need to educated airmen on the

  • Citizen-Warrior: Military, police work go hand-in-hand for Guard member

    Air Force Staff Sgt. Rodrigo Acosta, a security forces specialist with the Arizona Air National Guard's 162nd Wing, said he felt fortunate to belong to an Arizona-based unit when he deployed to Kuwait last summer. While others suffered through adjusting to Kuwait's triple-digit temperatures, for

  • Tucson Air National Guard Defenders honored with Air Force-level award

    Last year, the 162nd SFS earned the 2017 Air National Guard’s Outstanding Security Forces Award, and today, squadron leaders are in Norman, Oklahoma, to accept the 2017 United States Air Force Outstanding Security Forces Unit “Air Reserve Component” Award at the Air National Guard Security Forces

  • Arizona Guard deploys to Czech Republic for Ample Strike 2018

    Ample Strike is an annual Czech Republic-led, live exercise intended to increase proficiency levels for all forward air controllers and joint terminal attack controllers (JTACs), as well as to improve standardization and interoperability among NATO allies and partners.

  • Truax Field fulfills another chapter in Arizona Airman’s life

    Truax Field has a great deal of military history; from being an Active Army Air Base in 1942, to being Truax Air Force Base from 1952 to 1967 and now being a part of the Wisconsin Air National Guard, there is a lot of monumental military culture to be found here. For Senior Master Sgt. Oscar

  • Mission feature: AGE generates airpower from the ground up

    TUCSON, Ariz. -- The 162nd Maintenance Group dedicates more than eight hundred personnel to keeping the wing’s F-16 Fighting Falcons airborne, but for one flight in the 162nd Maintenance Squadron, air superiority starts on the ground. The Aerospace Ground Equipment flight operates by its motto,