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  • 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

  • Frantz takes command

    Col. Jarrod Frantz is the new commander of the 190th Air Refueling Wing. He assumed command during a ceremony during the April Unit Training Assembly.Frantz was born and raised in the Topeka area and enlisted in the 190th ARW in August 1985, serving as a crew chief in the 190th Consolidated Aircraft

  • Orphanage construction builds friends in Latvia

    Coyotes engineer a better life for orphans in Latvia while deterring aggression at the same time.The 190th Civil Engineering Squadron spent most of June in Daugavpils, Latvia, working with Latvian military engineers renovating an orphanage.Funded by European Command, this humanitarian civic

  • Selanders takes command of KSANG

    The Kansas Air National Guard welcomed its new commander, Col. Jay Selanders, and bid a bittersweet farewell to predecessor Brig. Gen. Bradley Link in a ceremony at Kansas Joint Force Headquarters Oct. 5.Link retired after more than 30 years of service, most recently serving as the assistant

  • CE rebuilds Armenian structures

    "Reserve all judgements until after you've had at least a few hours sleep."  That is how Lt. Colonel Jacob Salmond started the 190th Civil Engineering Squadron's (CES) time in Darbas, Armenia. The group arrived at the school house they would spend the next two weeks renovating at 3:00 a.m. after a

  • 190th climbs aboard maritime exercise

    Members of the 190th Air Refueling Wing joined the largest intenational maritime exercise in the world this July.RIMPAC, or Rim of the Pacific, is a bi-yearly exercise based primarily around the Hawaiian Islands. About 20 Coyotes  joined 25,000 other participants, 25 nations, about 50 naval vessels

  • Wing earns Distinguished Flying Unit ... again

    The National Guard Bureau recently announced the 190th Air Refueling Wing as the recipient of the 2013 Distinguished Flying Unit Award. Every flying unit in the country is eligible to apply, but this is the third year out of the past five the 190th won."The award is based on the culmination of work

  • Services wins food fight

    Airmen of the 190th Air Refueling Wing's Force Support Squadron, Sustainment Services Flight were presented with the Air National Guard Senior Master Sgt. Kenneth W. Disney Food Service Award at a ceremony in Chicago at the end of May.The award followed a challenging inspection. Unit members across