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Three Ohio Air National Guard wings the 121st Air Refueling Wing, 178th Wing and 180th Fighter Wing have been recognized again with the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award. The award is given to units that demonstrate exceptional meritorious service, accomplish specific acts of outstanding achievement and/or excel in combat operations.
Soaring to Success
Story by Bill Pierce,
Ohio National Guard Public Affairs
COLUMBUS, Ohio (3/12/21)
Three Ohio Air National Guard wings have been recognized again with the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, given to units that demonstrate exceptional meritorious service, accomplish specific acts of outstanding achievement and/or excel in combat operations. The period of consideration is typically anywhere from one to two years at a time. Each of these units the 121st Air Refueling Wing, based in Columbus; 178th Wing, based in Springfield; and 180th Fighter Wing, ba
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9 As Connecticut began administering COVID-19 vaccinations to educators and staff members, Guardsmen from the 103rd Airlift Wing provided non-medical administrative support to a clinic set up at Saint Francis Hospital to vaccinate 1,500 teachers and staff from Hartford Public Schools March 4-5, 2021.
Airmen teamed with hospital staff members at the stations within the clinic. As the hospital staff administered the vaccine to patients, Airmen helped with the associated administrative tasks to efficiently run the site.
“We’re helping with paperwork, registration, logging information in the CDC’s online Vaccine Administration Management System, filling out the vaccination cards anything we can do to provide administrative support here,” said U.S. Air Force Capt. Aaron Sarwar, 118th Airlift Squadron navigator and site lead for Air National Guard personnel.
Air Force completes Operation Porcupine exercise in Romania March 5 A U.S. Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter takes off after rescuing a downed pilot in a training exercise during Operation Porcupine in Romania, March 4, 2021. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Thomas S. Keisler IV) The Air Force’s 31st Fighter Wing participated in the annual Operation Porcupine exercise on Thursday in Romania, employing U.S. F-16s, HH-60s, and MQ-9s. The exercise was designed to replicate rescuing a downed F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot, involving those from the 56th and 57th Rescue Squadrons, 510th Fighter Squadron and 606th Air Control Squadron, among other units.