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  • Program teaches lifesaving motorcycle skills

    Even though I've been riding for almost all of my life, I just recently realized how much I didn't know about motorcycles. This past summer, I was lucky enough to meet some professional motorcycle riders and find out that there is an art to making a motorcycle perform at its limit.The popularity of

  • 178th Sustainment Services Flight wins national award

         The 178th Fighter Wing' s Sustainment Services Flight was named "ANG Sustainment Services Flight of the Year" for 2011 by National Guard Manpower and Personnel. Criteria for the selection for this award included: mission accomplishments and innovation, leadership and management, and customer

  • 178th Security Forces Airman receives Purple Heart

         More than forty Airmen from the 178th Security Forces Squadron, Springfield, Ohio, returned Aug. 6 from a sixth-month deployment to Sather Air Base, Iraq, in support of Operation New Dawn. A Purple Heart was waiting for one of these Airmen upon return.     Staff Sgt. Tyler Ogden arrived in

  • Adducchio earns top honors at Airman Leadership School

         Staff Sgt. Amy Adducchio, 178th Fighter Wing Public Affairs, won the John L. Levitow honor award for Airman Leadership School Class 11-8 at The I.G. Brown Air National Guard Training and Education Center Oct. 28.      The John L. Levitow award is the highest honor awarded to a graduate of any

  • Mission Support Group gets new commander

         Lt. Col. Joseph W. Schulz took command of the 178th Mission Support Group in a formal ceremony presided by Col. Greg N. Schnulo, 178th Fighter Wing Commander, Sept. 18 at the 178th Fighter Wing, Springfield, Ohio.Col. William C. Wolfarth relinquished command and will become the 178th Fighter

  • Medical Group takes home nine national awards

         The 178th Medical Group received nine national-level awards June 25 at the 2011 Air National Guard Medical Service Annual Awards Ceremony in San Antonio.In addition to being presented the Theodore C. Marrs Award for outstanding medical unit of the year, eight 178 MDG Airmen received individual

  • Col. Schnulo takes command

         Col. Gregory N. Schnulo, former Director of Staff, Ohio Joint Forces Headquarters, Columbus, Ohio, took command of the 178th Fighter Wing in a formal ceremony presided over by Brig. Gen. Mark E. Bartman Aug. 21 in Springfield, Ohio.     Col. Harry M. "Mike" Roberts has been the commander of the

  • Black Hawk aids medical group's training

    Several Airmen from the 178th Medical Group, Springfield, Ohio, learned how to transport aeromedical evacuation patients from a UH-60 Black Hawk during the domestic operations portion of the 2011 Patriot Exercise July 13 - 14 at Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center, Wis.     The 178 MDG

  • 'Overwhelming success' at Patriot Exercise

    Thirty Airmen, eight different Air Force specialty codes, 104 patients and work hours in the double-digits. The two-day domestic operations portion of the 2011 Patriot Exercise at Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center, Wis., concluded July 14.     Patriot is a two-week, large-scale exercise in