U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Andy Jenkins 145th Airlift Wing (AW) command post, leads members of the 145th Airlift Wing, and Piedmont Patriot Guard (PPG) Riders in a salute to the departed Lt. Col. Paul Mikeal, July 15, 2017, during a commemorative ride honoring the fallen and surviving Airmen from the 2012 Modular Airborne FireFighting Systems 7 incident. The event organized by Master Sgt. Jenkins, and Allen Hudson, PPG chairman in charge, mapped a course from the city of Charlotte to Todd County, N.C., where the group stopped at each of the four gravesites to say a few kind words and leave tokens of remembrance. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Laura Montgomery)
Operation Vigilant Catamount is a joint multi-county disaster response exercise in western North Carolina 5-14 June, 2017. The exercise is designed to test and improve the integration of multiple local, state and federal partners during natural or man-made disasters. The 145th Airlift Wing dedicated Security Forces, Emergency Management, Fire Rescue, Civil Engineers, and Public Affairs to support the exercise.
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.
