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  • Train As You Fight To Save Lives

    On a corner of the Charlotte-Douglas International Airport 25 agencies and over 100 volunteers gathered to participate in the Triennial National Disaster Medical Systems Exercise to fulfill a Federal Aviation Administration requirement. The exercise goal is to demonstrate the ability to alert,

  • 145th Logistics Readiness Squadron supports Hurricane Irma Relief

    In response to the state of emergency declaration by North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper on Sept. 7. 2017, the 145th Logistics Readiness Squadron was tasked to provide aide to the Logistics Support Center warehouse in partnership with the North Carolina Department of Public Safety, Division of Emergency

  • NCANG C-130s Fly Their Last 8-Ship Formation

    The “Queen City” looked as though it was holding its breath in awe as eight C-130 Hercules aircraft maneuvered their way towards the Charlotte Douglas International airport after flying their last max flight training mission over North Carolina, August 5, 2017.

  • 235th Air Traffic Control Squadron Awarded Facility of the Year

    The 235th Air Traffic Control Squadron of the North Carolina Air National Guard has been announced as the 2016 D. Ray Hardin Air Traffic Control Facility of the Year. The award is given for dedicated professionalism and exceeding superior standards and expectations.

  • 145 Airlift Wing Participates in Vigilant Catamount Exercise

    During a disaster, the natural human response is to move away from danger, but there exists the rare individual, the first, second, and third responders who instead charge into the fire. But not all responders operate the same, which is how operation Vigilant Catamount, an interagency domestic

  • 386th AEW navigator commission’s daughter on graduation day

    The varied missions of the United States military are not unfamiliar to obstacles. Vehicles and aircraft break, contingencies change, and we are constantly adapting to challenges like these.  Demonstrably, one father here, Maj. Bret Peters, the 737th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron assistant director

  • A Hero Among Us

    On a routine PSA Airline flight on July 21, 2016, from the Blue Grass Airport in Lexington, Ky., to the Charlotte Douglas International Airport, Charlotte, N.C., a belligerent passenger threatened the safety of the crew as well as the others. Maj. Nathan Barron of the 156th Airlift Squadron, who is