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  • Sexual assault happens everywhere - stay safe, secure

    Sexual Assault - Rape and sexual assault are not just a women' problem. Nor are they something that happens to someone else or somewhere else. Sexual assault happens everywhere, everyday and every minute to women and men of all ages. Tips for Protecting Against Sexual Assault · Listen to your gut

  • Farewell to the E model

    The Airmen of the 108th Air Refueling Wing gathered on the McGuire Air Force Base tarmac on August 7, 2009 and said goodbye to an old friend that flew combat missions from Vietnam to Iraq during a 52-year military career. With pieces of chalk, the Airmen signed their names on the gray fuselage of

  • Chaplain hears his calling again to deploy to SW Asia during holy time

    "It is fulfilling to be able to help out people who can't practice their religion because they don't have a rabbi near them," said Maj. Yaakov Bindell, a chaplain with the 108th Air Refueling Wing.  Bindell, a Rabbi, is schedule to deploy to the Middle East in September to provide spiritual support

  • 108th men, women bring home softball honors

    During the dog days of summer, many members of the 108th ARW traveled to sweltering Sioux Falls, S.D., for the 44th Annual Air National Guard Softball tournament. The 108th entered three teams this year, a Men's Open, a Women's Open and a Coed Team and achieved success in all three areas. On the

  • CE travels to Indiantown Gap for training

    A civil engineering squadron is made up of many components and jobs - electrical, heavy equipment, heating and air conditioning, surveying, readiness and more - lots of pieces that fit together like a jigsaw puzzle. Recently the 108th Civil Engineer Squadron went to Fort Indiantown Gap, Pa., for a

  • CRG member certified as sniper/sharpshooter

    Staff Sgt. Anthony J. Schettino, a 108th Contingency Response Group Security Forces member, was recently selected to attend the Close Precision Engagement Course (sniper/sharpshooter school) at Camp Robinson, Ark. For a security forces member, the opportunity to become a part of the sniper community

  • 108th ARW wins the Rusty Metcalf Trophy for 2008

    The 108th Air Refueling Wing has recently been awarded the Rusty Metcalf Trophy for demonstrating the highest standards of mission accomplishment for the year of 2008. To be considered for this award, units are evaluated in the areas of exercises and deployments, human resources, accident rate

  • Wing deploys to Southwest Asia

    More than 80 members of the 108th Air Refueling Wing left this week for a deployment to Southwest Asia. They are the first half of the deployers who will be spending two months on a refueling mission there. Wing members from maintenance, flight records, operations, aircraft flight equipment and

  • 108th Safety Office Conducts Innuagural Course

    "When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years." -Mark Twain Time and experience can be a great teacher as Mark Twain found out. The National Safety

  • eVetRecs Gets a Thumbs Up

    How often do you get to say that you are impressed with the service from a department in the federal government? I have to give a high five to eVetRecs, the new program launched by the National Archives to get records to veterans and next-of-kin of deceased veterans. The press release for the