Story by Master Sgt. Victor Vazquez | 156th Wing | 09.24.2025
U.S. Airmen with the 156th Force Support Squadron, Puerto Rico Air National Guard, assigned duration staff members and rotation teams to provide food support and bed-down operations during two Innovative Readiness Training projects at Kapolei, Hawaii and Redwoods National Park, California between June 15, 2025 – Aug. 10, 2025....
Story by Paul Mann | 117th Air Refueling Wing | 09.12.2025
Shortly after the start of July, a small group of Air and Army National Guard members, along with a few friends from the U.S. Navy, U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force Reserve gathered in East Tennessee, specifically Rhea and Bledsoe Counties. This Advanced Echelon or ADVON team, had a fundamental function and less than 48 hours to do it – prepare two locations capable of seeing thousands of patients....
Story by Staff Sgt. Christina Russo | 910th Airlift Wing | 08.27.2025
For the first time in recent Youngstown Air Reserve Station history, the 910th Airlift Wing hosted a civic leader tour, welcoming more than 35 civic leaders and senior military members from Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia, Aug. 13-14, 2025. As longtime guests of past civic leader tours, the 910th AW used this opportunity to usher in a new era of bolstering community engagement and development....
Story by Capt. Jason Carr | 107th Attack Wing | 08.14.2025
ELLWOOD CITY, Pa. — Twenty Airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 107th Attack Wing’s Medical Group, stationed in Niagara Falls NY, were among 160 joint service members supporting Operation Healthy Ellwood, an Innovation Readiness Training (IRT) mission, July 23 to Aug. 1, 2025. The Department of Defense-led effort provided free medical, dental, optometry, and veterinary services......
Story by Tech. Sgt. Albert Valladares | 152nd Airlift Wing | 08.08.2025
The Nevada Air National Guard's 152nd Civil Engineer Squadron participated in the Department of Defense's Innovative Readiness Training "Aloha Lives Here" project in Wai'anae, Hawaii, from July 28 to Aug. 8, 2025. The Airmen built permanent housing for residents of Pu'uhonua O Wai'anae, a village created to support formerly unhoused families. Working alongside local contractors, the squadron......
Story by Staff Sgt. Alexis Morris | 512th Airlift Wing | 08.02.2025
As Dover residents were filling the stands of the Dover International Speedway for the NASCAR Cup Series last month, 42 of the city’s Air Force reservists were en route to the Borough of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, to train alongside fellow service members in an Innovative Readiness Training mission....
Story by Staff Sgt. Sarah Stalder Lundgren | 180th Fighter Wing Ohio National Guard | 07.22.2025
More than 200 service members from the U.S. Air Force, Air National Guard, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Army Reserve and U.S. Air Force Reserve participated in Operation Healthy Tennessee, part of the Department of Defense’s Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) program, held July 11–21, 2025. Over the course of the mission, they provided no-cost medical, dental, optometry and veterinary......
Story by Senior Airman Alexis Morris | Office of the Secretary of Defense Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) | 07.21.2025
After five and a half years without a medical center, the residents of Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, are about to experience temporary relief in the form of a 10-day, no-cost healthcare clinic....
