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  • Meet the Member: Airman 1st Class Kenneth Lassiter Jr.

    Airman 1st Class Kenneth Lassiter Jr., a member of the 111th Attack Wing Student Flight here, enlisted into the Wing's 201st RED HORSE Squadron, Det. 1, recently.Although just beginning his military career, he's no stranger to the military or the benefits one can gain from service. The

  • Attack Wing holds Retirees Appreciation Day, officially opens RAO

    Retired, recently retired, and soon-to-be retiring military personnel along with their spouses gathered  for an all-day series of presentations covering the many aspects of retired life during Retirees Appreciation Day here, May 14. The day-long event was put together by the 111th Attack Wing

  • Pa. ANG represents dominant air power in multi-NATO force exercise

    Of the nearly 160 U.S. military members participating in exercise Anakonda Response 2016, a band of less than nine 111th Attack Wing members from Horsham Air Guard Station, Pennsylvania, represented the Air Force component April 27 - May 5 here.Exercise Anakonda Response 2016, an evaluation hosted

  • Horsham AGS hangar turns orchestral amphitheater…if just for a while

    Thunderous trumpets, mellow tubas and the rat-a-tat-tat of snare drums filled the air on base April 23 as area drum and bugle corps performs a rehearsal in a now repurposed aircraft hangar here.Lancers Alumni Drum and Bugle Corps from Hanover, Pennsylvania needed a facility to practice in in advance

  • Air Guard enlisted bestow highest honor on Lt. Gen. Stanley Clarke III

    Command Chief Master Sergeant of the Air National Guard James Hotaling served as chief of the mess and inducted the Director of the Air National Guard Lt. Gen. Stanley E. Clarke III into the Order of the Sword here on April 17.The Order of the Sword was adopted by the enlisted Air Force to recognize

  • Philly-area ANG retirees, members reconnect during 74th annual dinner

    Retirees, current members and associated 111th Attack Wing staff gathered for a dining event held in Philadelphia, April 4.Touted as the 74th annual 111th Attack Wing Retirees Dinner, the affair served to bond an intergenerational crowd of Air Guardsmen from the former Naval Air Station Joint

  • Moms-To-Be Celebration showers military members, spouses

    More than 40 expecting military women or military spouses were recognized during a Moms-To-Be Celebration held at the Valley Forge Casino Resort in Valley Forge on March 19.The program, initially started as an educational gathering, is sponsored by the March of Dimes of Pennsylvania and funded here

  • We don't all fly airplanes: High schoolers view ANG's less-familiar fields

    Nearly 40 students from the Career Institute of Technology, Easton, Pennsylvania, visited the 270th Engineering Installation Squadron and the 201st Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineer (RED HORSE), Det. 1 during a school trip here March 18.The goal was to introduce

  • Lehigh Valley area school district scores surplus IT equipment for students

    Whitehall-Coplay Middle School in Whitehall, Pennsylvania received more than 300 surplus or excess military computers and monitors on March 18 after successfully applying through the DOD's Computers For Learning program.Gathering in the school's main entrance, Peter Bugbeep, school principal, and an