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  • Wyoming Air National Guard transfers four C-130H aircraft

    By the end of October 2015, Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Airlift Wing, will return to its original fleet of eight C-130 aircraft, losing four that it gained nine years ago.In 2006, the 153rd Airlift Wing welcomed the 30th Airlift Squadron to its ranks, making it the first guard-based unit in

  • MAFFS 3 returns to Wyoming after 14 months in Utah

    A C-130H equipped with a Modular Airborne Firefighting System landed without functioning nose gear at Hill Air Force Base, Utah. Almost 14 months later, on Oct. 13 that C-130H, tail number 1533, returned to its home at the Wyoming Air National Guard.During an aerial firefighting mission over Utah,

  • Mixed aircrews flying over Cheyenne this week

    The Wyoming Air National Guard C-130s soaring over the southwestern part of Wyoming this week were flown by a mix of Wyoming and Montana Air National Guard crews.Maj. Leanna Thomas, tactics chief for the Wyoming Air National Guard, said she and her Montana counterpart planned this training and hope

  • Security personnel trained on standard field sobriety tests

    Master Sgt. Eric Farmer drank rum and whiskey while at work on the afternoon of Sept. 23 - on purpose. He was assisting the Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Security Forces Squadron with training.The training required test subjects, like Farmer, to have blood alcohol levels higher than Wyoming's

  • 153rd Airlift Wing migrates to AFNet

    For the past several months, the 153rd Communications Flight has been preparing both internally and externally for the downward directed AFNet migration. This change in our network is part of a push to incorporate all branches into shared IT services. The different branches are working to strike

  • Operations Group conducts training at Camp Guernsey

    C-130H Hercules aircrews assigned to the 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard spent four days at Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center completing annual training. For the past several years, aircrews have been convening in Guernsey to complete the USAF Fitness Assessment, 9mm weapons

  • Military and civilian first responders train together for incident response

    Civilian and military emergency responders are convening at the 153rd Airlift Wing, Cheyenne, for Counter-CBRN All-Hazard Management Response training.Instructors from the Air National Guard are providing radiological, biological, first response, medical, and incident command instruction about

  • CCAF graduates, SNCO, and NCOs recognized

    Wyoming Air National Guard Airmen participated in the inaugural Community College of the Air Force (CCAF) graduate recognition, Senior Non-commissioned Officer (SNCO), and Non-commissioned Officer (NCO) induction ceremony at Fall Hall on F.E. Warren Air Force Base. The Senior NCO Council and Wing

  • Wyoming and North Carolina aircrews certify on MAFFS

    About 150 Airmen and personnel assigned to the 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard, 145th Airlift Wing, North Carolina Air National Guard, and U.S. Forest Service trained together at Donaldson Field in Greenville, South Carolina May 1 - 7, 2015 to complete annual certification on the