A North Carolina Air National Guard C-130H3 sits on the tarmac in the early morning during a dust storm at an undisclosed location in Southwest Asia, May 20, 2017. The C130 is deployed in support of Operation Freedom's Sentinel and is part of the 145th Airlift Wing's Final deployment with the aircraft. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Alejandro Armendariz)
The 145th Airlift Wing held a ceremony for the retirement of Maj. Gen. Todd Kelly at the North Carolina Air National Guard Base, Charlotte Douglas International Airport, May 6, 2017. Kelly has served for 36 years and piloted the C-130 Hercules aircraft accumulating more than 5500 flying hours.
Squeezed in the downtown streets of Washington, D.C., was the North Carolina Air National Guard Mobile Emergency Operation Center, one of nine high-tech Air National Guard units designed to provide back-up communications support to three tactical operations centers: Task Force Security, Task Force Crowd, and Task Force Access, for the 58th Presidential Inauguration Ceremony held Jan. 20, 2017.
For the first time ever, two small air terminal riggers from the NC Air National Guard traveled to McMurdo Station in Antarctica to provide expert quality control in support of Operation Deep Freeze from Oct. 20, 2016 to Dec.6, 2016.
