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  • Basic skills training is a rodeo

    During the January drill the 190th Air Refueling Wing conducted Expeditionary Skills Training, also known as the Expeditionary Skills Rodeo. Approximately every 24 to 36 months Airmen go through a rodeo in an attempt to stay up to date on predeploymenttraining."The actual rodeo satisfies up to 11

  • 190th ARW bids farewell to vice commander

    Ret. Col. Chris Turner, former 190th Air Refueling Wing vice commander, celebrated his retirement ceremony Jan. 7, 2017, in the Operations Group Engine Shop with family, friends and fellow coyotes.Turner is an enthusiastic, energetic and motivational leader, according to those who spoke during the

  • KC Royals support Ryan's Race

    Ryan Ramshaw, 190th Comptroller Flight accounting technician, is a life long sports fan. His life, spent surrounded with sports memorabilia and hours upon hours of baseball practices, was dedicated to the game. He's been a supporter of all area teams, but none compare to his admiration for the

  • Command Chief to mentor selected Airmen

    Opportunity is knocking for the Airmen at Forbes Field. A new mentorship program is scheduled to begin this September. The Junior Enlisted Mentorship Program is a program that provides Senior Airmen and below an opportunity to shadow the Wing Command Chief for a day.According to Senior Master Sgt.

  • Coyotes provide health care at Tropic Care 2016

    Airmen from the 190th Air Refueling Wing provided free vision, medical and dental care to the communities of Kauai as part of Tropic Care 2016 from June 20-29 on the island of Kauai, Hawaii.Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines all worked together to yield aid from five separate clinics across the

  • Air Force introduces new combat AFSC

    Air Force senior leaders have released details of the service's plan to announce a new Air Force Specialty Code, combat barista, beginning in April 2016."Alertness levels have been below required sustainment for quite some time," said Brig. Gen. Dee Kaff, Air Force director of operations. "We all

  • The wonderful thing about Tigger

    Senior Airman Taylor Wheeler, 190th fuels system journeyman, stood tall and proud in front of her colleagues. As Major General Lee Tafanelli, Kansas Adjutant General, approached Wheeler to bestow an award, her admiring dog Tigger slowly inched his  way in between the two.Tigger could sense his

  • 73rd CST keeps the US Open safe

    Not many careers in the National Guard get to work for and support national and even world-wide broadcast events, but the 73rd Civil Support Team is the exception.Members from the unit participated as colleagues at the 2015 U.S. Open this summer, where they supported the New York Police Department's