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  • 128th Air Refueling Wing hosts 28th annual Flight to the North Pole

    Military and civilian volunteers from around the community participated in the 28th annual Flight to the North Pole for families of children with life-threatening illnesses, at the 128th Air Refueling Wing in Milwaukee, Saturday.Santa's elves and Wisconsin Air National Guard volunteers welcomed 12

  • TANKER TAIL SWAP: Air Guard rotates aircraft

    Four Air National Guard air refueling units recently swapped tanker aircraft as part of an Air National Guard/Air Mobility Command-mandated maintenance plan. The jet rotation had two key goals: to better arrange aircraft maintenance schedules so one base isn't short of jets for a long period of

  • Big Night at The Ball Park

    "Not too many people have the chance to do something like that."Leah Rogers, a Staff Sergeant with the 128th Air Refueling Wing in Milwaukee, was referring to her big moment at Miller Park Wednesday, Sept. 12 when she threw out the ceremonial first pitch prior to the Brewers' game against the

  • New DOD Safe Helpline Mobile App Now Available

    The Department of Defense announced its new DoD Safe Helpline Mobile Application. With this new app, service members transitioning to civilian life will have access to critical resources that assists in managing the short and long-term effects of sexual assault. This new app is the latest in a

  • READY FOR INSPECTION: Milwaukee Air Guard Unit Welcomes IG Team

    An Air Force Inspector General (IG) Team made up of approximately 45 inspectors arrived at the 128th Air Refueling Wing in Milwaukee Fri., Sept. 7."They want to know: How disciplined? Ready? Compliant? Efficient? Effective and proficient is this unit?," said Lt. Col. Jim Silvasy, 128 ARW Executive

  • Combined forces prepare 128 ARW aircrew members for combat, water survival

    "Hudson River, 2009. Who can describe the situation in which a civilian aircraft ditched over water?" asked Master Sgt. Adam Becker, an Aircrew Flight Equipment Survival Instructor from the 128 Air Refueling Wing."Plane took off, two engines failed because they hit a flock of geese. Since they

  • Sundara Sharpens Intel Skills

    Staff Sgt. John Sundara of the Intelligence section at the 128th Air Refueling Wing returned in February from a six month deployment assigned to the 379th Air Expeditionary Wing as an Intelligence Analyst.Sundara, a traditional guardsman having five years at the unit, was activated and deployed in

  • Aircraft recovery capability demonstrated at 128 ARW Military Display

    Four teams of maintenance Airmen from the 128th Air Refueling Wing stand at manifold stations around a demonstration airplane. Pneumatic lifting bags, placed underneath each of the wings, the nose and the tail of the aircraft, begin to inflate. The object of the operation is to inflate the lifting