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  • 2010 CFC kicks off

         The 178th Fighter Wing Combined Federal Campaign for 2010 officially began the first week of October with a CFC Kick Off Oct. 8 at Springfield Air National Guard Base, Ohio.     The CFC is an annual charity drive that runs from Sept. 1 to Dec. 15 and gives federal civilian, postal and military

  • Final F-16 class graduates Springfield training

         The final class of F-16 Fighting Falcon Initial Qualification Training course students instructed at the 178th Fighter Wing in Springfield, Ohio, graduated in a formal ceremony Oct. 9 at the Wright-Patterson Club located at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.           The IQT course, also

  • Fighter era ends as new mission begins

         Col. Mike Roberts, 178th Fighter Wing Commander; Col. Craig Wallace, 178th Vice Commander; Lt. Col. John Thompson, 162nd Fighter Squadron Commander; Lt. Col. Nathan Thomas, 162nd Director of Operations; fly their final missions in the F-16 Fighting Falcon at the 178 FW, Springfield, Ohio on

  • CERFP personnel receive training during DOMOPS exercise

         Those are critical seconds in a life and death situation," says 1st Lt. Joseph Meller, extraction executive officer of the 836th Sapper Company from Kingsville, Texas.     The seconds he is referring to, are the seconds it takes to respond to a victim during an emergency.      The Patriot

  • Dental deploys, serves Hawaii's underserved

         Dentists don't typically make house calls, but this may be as close as they get. Equipped with two, fully-functional dental chairs, the West Hawaii Community Health Center's Dental Mobile Van allows healthcare professionals to provide service to those who may not have access or the means to

  • Ohio ANG provides free medical services to Waikoloa, Hawaii

         The 178th Medical Group, Springfield, Ohio, provided free medical services to the local community June 9 at Waikoloa Elementary School. This was one of several locations served during 178 MDG's two-week training deployment to Hawaii's Big Island.     On this trip, patients received health

  • Why train in Hawaii?

         The 178th Medical Group, Springfield, Ohio, is deployed to Kona, Hawaii, to provide free medical services to underserved communities that do not have access to healthcare.     This training deployment benefits both servicemembers and the local people of Kona.     "It was just published by the

  • New mission

    The 178th Fighter Wing, Springfield, Ohio will no longer be an F-16 Fighting Falcon training base. As announced May 7 the U.S. Department of Defense and the Air Force have decided to assign the base new missions as a ground control station for the MQ-1 Predator and an extension of the intelligence

  • 178 FW helps children in Hungary

    "I'm sure in the following days our children will look up and wave to our friends in the sky," said Gizella Hertelendine Siroki, a teacher at Peace's Square Elementary school. About a dozen Guardsmen representing the 178th Fighter Wing listened to a teacher and school principal who held a ceremony

  • 178 FW gets Predator mission

    Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio and Maj. Gen. Gregory Wayt, National Guard adjutant general for the State of Ohio spoke to 178th Fighter Wing unit members here May 10 regarding the two newly acquired unit missions. The official message was received May 7 announcing the 178 FW would be assigned a remotely