152nd Airlift Wing News Articles

  • 152nd Airlift Wing set to participate in European exercise

    Aircraft and nearly 50 personnel from the Nevada Air National Guard's 152nd Airlift Wing are set to participate in the multi-national exercise, Allied Forge, in Corsica, France, and the United Kingdom during May and June. The participants will conduct combined training and operations with several

  • Employers of Guard and Reserve honored for going above and beyond

    The North Las Vegas Readiness Center welcomed approximately 60 employers of National Guardsmen and Reservists for an Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve (ESGR) sponsored tour and awards ceremony here on May 14. The event celebrated the employers' generosity and support and was an opportunity

  • Request for volunteers

    ***GREAT OPPORTUNITY -- 20-30 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED***The Airport Authority is having their tri-annual exercise "Broken Wing" on29 May 2014 & has asked us to participate as volunteers. For more info orto sign up, please contact MSgt Tracy Woodfolk tracy.woodfolk@ang.af.mil .The volunteers will be role

  • Nevada, Tonga partner in the spirit of 'Fe tokoni aki'

    The Nevada National Guard and the Kingdom of Tonga marked the formation of the newest official relationship in the National Guard's State Partnership Program on April 11 with a formal signing ceremony here in the Tongan capital. The two parties vow, in Tongan, to 'Fe tokoni aki,' (help one

  • Saving lives through the sky

    Picture it-a devastating earthquake strikes and injures hundreds locally who then fill local hospitals here to maximum capacity. What happens to the countless others who are in dire need of medical attention?The Air National Guard participated in Alaska Shield 14 by conducting a patient evacuation

  • Gov. helps open new Air Guard indoor shooting range

         Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval was one of several dignitaries who participated in the ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the official opening of the Nevada Air Guard's $5 million indoor shooting range here on Tuesday. The state-of-the-art Modular Containerized Small Arms Training Set range gives

  • Former warfare center advisor Reiss new ops squadron commander

    Lt. Col. Walter Reiss III, formerly an advisor to the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center, became the third commander in the history of the Nevada Air Guard's 232nd Operations Squadron when he received the flag of command for the unit here in a ceremony on March 20.   Reiss, 44, succeeded Lt. Col. Warren

  • 152nd Airlift Wing hosts ASIST Training

    On the 12th and 13th of February, the 152nd Airlift Wing hosted Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST). Nevada Army National Guard Capt. Mike Bordallo, along with representatives from the Nevada Governor's Office of Suicide Prevention, Ms. Misty Allen and Ms. Janett Massolo,

  • Tuskegee Airmen inspire youth and veterans in Northern Nevada

    It didn't take long for the audience to warm up to military members of our greatest generation as young people and the young at heart welcomed two of the original Tuskegee Airmen here in Reno on Feb. 28. Retired Army Air Corps Lt. Cols. Robert Ashby and Theodore Lumpkin Jr. regaled students at Fred