Story by Tech. Sgt. Wynndermere Shaw | 182nd Airlift Wing | 11.11.2024
As part of the National Guard Bureau’s Innovative Readiness Training (NGB IRT) program, Chief Master Sgt. Shawn Moore, Senior Enlisted Leader for the 182nd Civil Engineer Squadron, Illinois Air National Guard, and other service members in his team are engaged in rebuilding homes for members of the Navajo Indian Nation, including World War II veterans, in partnership with the Southwest Indian......
Story by Airman 1st Class Donnell Schroeter | 377th Air Base Wing | 06.05.2024
KIRTLAND AIR FORCE BASE – Alvin Malone grew up idolizing his father and uncles for their service during World War II. Their service to the United States has been a legacy and heritage the Malone family carried with pride for decades. Now decades later, they are receiving a gift that will drastically increase their quality of life. As a result of the partnership between the Department of......
Story by Chief Petty Officer Christopher Okula | Navy Reserve - Navy Public Affairs Support Element West | 06.22.2023
Navy Reserve Seabees completed construction today of a brand new house for a family in need as part of an Innovative Readiness Training (IRT) project in partnership with the Southwest Indian Foundation (SWIF)....
Courtesy Story | Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 3 | 08.16.2019
PORT HUENEME, Calif. (NNS) – Active duty Seabees assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 3 and reserve Seabees from NMCB-18 partnered with the Southwest Indian Foundation (SWIF) to build homes for Navajo Indian families in Gallup, New Mexico, Aug. 5-16....
Story by Lt. Col. Jim St. Clair | 169th Fighter Wing | 07.19.2018
Forty engineers from the 169th Civil Engineer Squadron (169CES), South Carolina Air National Guard (SCANG), spent their two weeks of annual training building homes for Native American veterans in the Land of Enchantment. The training mission, called Deployment For Training (DFT), consisted of building conventionally framed houses in a warehouse setting and on the Navajo Indian reservation......
Courtesy Story | 416th Theater Engineer Command | 11.07.2013
Soldiers from the 389th Engineer Company, stationed in Middletown, Iowa, along with Navy Seabees and Air Force engineers worked with the Southwest Indian Foundation (SWIF) in Gallup, N.M., this September, to provide homes for the Navajo Nation....
