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  • Homes for Our Troops key to Vets’ futures

    More than 100 people weathered the cold rain and wind, rooted in the mud, waiting to celebrate and recognize a small-town hero and that small town's sense of community during a key turnover ceremony, March 13, 2010. And despite the dreary, cloud-covered sky, attendees applauded and cheered when Army

  • C-27 Pilot Needed: Do you have what it takes?

    It was cooler that day in October, 2004 at Columbus Air Force Base, Miss. And on that day, Air Force pilot Chris Thiesing was scheduled for his first sortie in a T-37 training plane after finishing four weeks of academics. After taxiing the airplane to the runway, he and his instructor armed their

  • Conn. Airmen, getting the job done: Update from Haiti

    After one month serving in the devastated country of Haiti, Airmen from the 103rd Force Support Squadron's services flight are continuing to make history for the Connecticut Air National Guard. When not working in billeting and force beddown, the services team is side-by-side with the Army assisting

  • Bradley construction update, CIRF’s Up!

    The Centralized Intermediate Repair Facility is scheduled to break ground for an 8.3 million dollar transformation of their current building, Saturday March 6, 2010, marking the beginning of a new era for the 103rd Airlift Wing. Included in the 17,000 square foot expansion will be additional work

  • Teamwork Critical to Achieving Initial Operational Capability

    A four-day site survey was completed here on Feb. 5, 2010, to determine the Connecticut Air National Guard's level of readiness to accept and support the installation of a 2.5 million dollar equipment suite that will enable the 103rd Air and Space Operations Group to achieve its initial operational

  • Conn. Air Guardsmen Help Haiti Relief Efforts

    Approximately one dozen Airmen from the 103rd Airlift Wing deployed from here Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2010, to provide disaster relief assistance to the people of Haiti.The deployers are part of Operation UNIFIED RESPONSE, part of the United States' larger response to the Haitian request for humanitarian