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  • Airmen to receive the 2013 Earl T. Ricks Award

    Lt. Col. Jonathan Goldstein, Capt. Ryan Hawk, 1st Lt. Samuel Harrison, Senior Master Sgt. Timothy Nicholson, Master Sgt. Michael Kalbfleisch, Master Sgt. Devin Paskewich, Tech. Sgt. Nicholas McFadden, Staff Sgt. Chad Witmer, Staff Sgt. Jordan Soltis and Senior Airman Jeremy Barr will receive one of

  • Airman’s persistence pays off

    Senior Airman Art Greenlee had a clear vision of what his Air Force career would be.Due to his hard work and persistence, that vision is becoming a reality.Greenlee said he joined the 167th Airlift Wing because he wanted to be an officer in the U.S. Air Force. He was recently selected to be a cyber

  • 167th fire department offers training to Sugar Grove fire department

    Members of the 167th Airlift Wing's fire department and members of the Navy Information Operations Command Sugar Grove Fire Department participated in Aircraft Rescue Fire Fighting training during Saturday and Sunday of April's UTA. While they do work on a Navy installation, the Sugar Grove

  • Wing Airman provides leadership on and off base

    Many junior enlisted members are content with simply showing up to work, doing their job and going home, but for Senior Airman Jacob Bixler that isn't enough. Bixler, a radio frequency transmission journeyman with the 167th Airlift Wing's Communication Flight, splits his time between school,

  • 167th AW Airman awarded Bronze Star Medal while deployed to Afghanistan

    Deployments are nothing new to Capt. Christopher T. Tusing, the installation deployment officer for the 167th Airlift Wing.With four previous tours of duty under his belt as well as overseeing the deployments of hundreds of Airmen assigned to the West Virginia Air National Guard Wing based in

  • 167th Airlift Wing plays role in Operation Big Sandy Superstorm

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency tapped the West Virginia Air National Guard's 167th Airlift Wing base as a staging area to push out much-needed storm relief supplies to Mountain State residents hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy.Although FEMA's stay at the Martinsburg base was brief -

  • 167th delivers power support to hurricane victims

    Hurricane Sandy, nicknamed "Frankenstorm," has killed more than 80 people in the U.S., left millions without power and potentially changed the Atlantic coastline. Considered one of the biggest storms to hit the northeast in the past few years, it has left millions of Americans without basic

  • FEMA uses 167th Airlift Wing as staging area for storm relief

    The Federal Emergency Management Agency is using the West Virginia Air National Guard's 167th Airlift Wing base in Martinsburg as a staging area to push out much needed storm relief supplies to Mountain State residents hit hardest by Superstorm Sandy.Airmen and Soldiers from the West Virginia

  • C-5 conversion process draws to close with completion of taxiway extension

    Blame Mother Nature. If it hadn't been for her, the final phase of the 167th Airlift Wing's C-5 conversion process would have been completed by now. Instead the steady rains which saturated Martinsburg in April and May of last year delayed completion of the C-5 taxiway extension. Completion of the

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