The Florida Air National Guard plans a ribbon cutting ceremony on June 1 to formally open the new state of the art, $30 million air operations center at Tyndall AFB, Fla. The ANG’s 601st Air Operations Group will manage the 37,000-square-foot facility, dubbed America’s AOC, which provides air tasking orders and strategic direction for the Continental US NORAD region. Switching from the Southeast Air Defense Sector mission to the AOC mission was the culmination of about four years work.
Air National Guard MC-130J Briefly Becomes a Bee-130J
Sept. 11, 2024
The Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s 193rd Special Operations Wing had to call in a beekeeper to rescue a swarm of honeybees from an MC-130J late last month.