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  • Memorial Day observance set for state veterans' cemetery

    The Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery will host the Natrona County United Veterans Council's Memorial Day Ceremony, at 11 a.m., May 28, on the cemetery grounds, in Evansville.Wyoming Secretary of State, Max Maxfield will give the keynote address following a Tribute to Departed Comrades given by

  • Wyoming Air National Guard participates in state exercise

    Members of the 153rd Airlift Wing participated in a Strategic National Stockpile exercise named Prairie Eagle May 14, 2012, delivering simulated vaccines via a C-130, a first for the state of Wyoming.The Wyoming Air National Guard, in conjunction with the Wyoming Department of Health, flew a mission

  • Where the friendly skies began

    This is part two of a two-part series about Wyoming's role in aviation history. Part one may be found by clicking here.You've just reached altitude on your commercial airline flight and are looking forward to kicking back and enjoying a snack and a drink. You look around and there are no flight

  • MAFFS II training conducted at the Wyoming Air Guard

    Select C-130 cargo plane crews with the Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Airlift Wing began preparing for their mission to fight fires from the air with a new training regiment centered on practicing in Wyoming.The Airmen conducted annual Modular Airborne Firefighting System II training with the

  • U.S. Air Force announce local cuts to Wyoming Air National Guard

    The U.S. Air Force announced Tuesday, the Wyoming Air National Guard's 187th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron is one of the units proposed to be cut in the president's 2013 budget.The Air Force made the proposed force structure decision resulting in 5,500 manpower cuts to the Air National Guard

  • OTS marks 20,000 COT graduate

    The milestone was reached through 15 years of motivation, dedication and perspiration. Nov. 18 when the Officer Training School graduated its 20,000th commissioned officer trainee during a ceremony at Boyd Auditorium."As a flight nurse, (Commissioned Officer Training) has made me feel like I am now

  • Aviation history: Wyoming's impact

    This is part one of a two-part series about Wyoming's role in aviation history.What city throughout the first 50 years of the 1900's was home to daring pilots flying through blizzards with no flight instruments? Where B-17 bombers were being modified in a matter of days to fight in World War II? And