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

Comptroller Flight Mudders

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

Wylie Coyote takes the cake

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

35 years of Air Refueling experience.

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