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  • Nevada Air Guard chaplain: 'I want people to know Islam is not evil'

    Laura Magee remembers asking her father about religion when she was 8 while innocently combing her hair in front of a large vanity mirror.It was the first time she can remember asking one of her parents about the existence of a God — which she said her father quickly repudiated. Her parents

  • Guard, Reserve gather for annual aerial firefighting training

    One by one, C-130 tail flashes adorned with vibrant orange numbers arrived Wednesday on the flight line here at the Idaho Air National Guard Base. Each orange number represents one of the eight planes on the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System team, including three Air National Guard units and one

  • Hometown son takes rein of Reno Air Guard unit

    For Col. Eric Wade, home means Nevada.However, in 1996, Wade, a Reno High and University of Nevada, Reno graduate, left the sagebrush and the pinyon pine after the 152nd Reconnaissance Group’s conversion from RF-4C jets to C-130 aircraft.Following a decade-long active duty tour overseas, though, he

  • Long-serving Nevada Air Guardsmen recognized at ceremony

    Ten long-serving members of the Nevada National Guard received recognition Sunday for their decades of service. Retired Maj. Gen. Drennan A. Clark, former adjutant general of Nevada, helped present the awards, which bear his name, “The Drennan A. Clark Order of Nevada,” during a ceremony at the Air

  • ‘Bittersweet’ outgoing 152nd Airlift Wing commander embraces new journey

    Col. Karl Stark feels bittersweet and exhausted, but that’s a good thing.“For any outgoing commander, when you get down to it, it’s always bittersweet,” said Stark, whose three-year tenure as the 152nd Airlift Wing commander comes to a close 9:30 a.m. Saturday at the Nevada Air National Guard Base

  • 152nd Airlift Wing holds first Leadership Summit

    When Gen. Joseph Lengyel visited the Nevada Air National Guard Base in Reno on March 3, he did something he admitted was one of the most important things he does as chief of the National Guard — talk about the importance of leadership.“I think anytime I get the opportunity to come and participate in

  • Opportunity Strikes

    Hydraulic Mechanic from 152nd Maintenance Squadron gets opportunity of a lifetime.