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  • Wing cleans up their act in pre-Labor Day grind

    Volunteers from the 111th Attack Wing prepared for Labor Day by flexing their muscles in manual labor during a base clean-up event held Aug. 4, 2015 here.Organized several times a year, base beautification not only makes the installation look it's best, but it also gives members the chance to work

  • Attack Wing brings the gravy to 2015 Unity Day

    Members of the 111th Air Operations Group huddled up to serve a taste of Philadelphia, Aug. 27, 2015, during the Pennsylvania National Guard's annual Unity Day gathering, Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania."Unity Day was formed eight years ago to highlight the benefits of inclusion and diversity in

  • Attack Wing dental staff ensures wing members are fit to bite

    Inspections, oftentimes an unpopular part of a Guardsman's service, helps prime members serving in the militiaman and a military force  -  and those battle-hardened chompers aren't excluded from review either."If you can't bite, then you can't fight," said Lt. Col. Angela McDonough, 111th Attack

  • Editorial: Does the rubber meet the road?

    It seems that each overnight rain brings traffic-snarled commute headaches for everyone. Loaded tractor-trailers jack knifing on the Schuylkill Expressway, one-car spinouts kissing the guard rail on the blue route (I-476), or a vintage, multicolored minivan hurtling into a maple tree along Roosevelt

  • American Legion delivers to help area service members

    Members of the Sons of the American Legion, Squadron 798 from Warminster, Pennsylvania stopped by with a surprise food donation to replenish depleted stockpiles meant to aid military members and their families Aug. 2, 2015, at Horsham Air Guard Station, Pennsylvania."There were a few large donations

  • Attack Wing's dark-horse marksmanship team lights it up in state match

     Perhaps the 111th Attack Wing's marksmanship team competed with outdated equipment?Possibly, the team had an inadequate amount of time to practice?Maybe the inability to test fire and properly adjust their rifles' sights was a handicap?While all of the above creates an accurate scenario, it didn't

  • Wing on target as restored marksmanship team preps for first competition

    Members of the newly-revived 111th Attack Wing's marksmanship team prepare to head into competition on July 25, 2015, at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania. The Governor's Twenty is an annual National Guard-wide competition during which the state's top military marksmen fire both rifle and pistol,

  • Airmen helping Airman

     Volunteers from the 111th Attack Wing's Logistics Readiness Squadron took time out of their day to help a new recruit move her household goods June 30, 2015, in Drums, Pennsylvania.Airman First Class Shawna Belusko, a traditional guardsman and newly-assigned 111th LRS individual equipment clerk,