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  • DOD program gives spouses career options

    Balancing a civilian career with a military spouse's career can be tough and when a service member has a permanent change of station it can leave spouses stuck hoping to find a new job in a new area.Robert L. Gordon III, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for military community and family

  • Two retired generals inducted into Wisconsin ANG Hall of Fame

    Retired Maj. Gen. Fred R. Sloan and Maj. Gen. Albert H. Wilkening were inducted into the Wisconsin Air National Guard Hall of Fame during a September 31 ceremony at the 115th Fighter Wing in Madison."The Hall of Fame is for those who have gone above and beyond what was expected of them," said Brig.

  • Commentary: Experiencing an Incentive Flight

    "Eat bananas for breakfast. I hear they taste the same going up as coming down," is the last piece of advice I get during egress-hanging-harness training. I discover the next day this is not true.Ever since I was 7 years old and received a toy F-16 as a gift, I dreamed of flying in the jet. Life had

  • Madison Priest To Deploy Overseas As Chaplain

    Click to view the full video of news story.With the influx of troops needed overseas following 9/11, there has also been an increasing need for their spiritual support, and a local priest is answering the call for help.At St. Thomas Aquinas Parish on Madison's West Side on Sunday, the Rev. Donn

  • Military mobilized since 9/11 attacks

    Click here to view the full video of news story. "One weekend a month, two weeks a year." That was once the recruiting slogan of the National Guard."The thought of joining the National Guard was you might be mobilized once in a career, 20, 25 years for a really big event," says Maj. Gen. Don

  • Service Members Reflect on 9/11

    Click here to view full video of the story. The 'where were you when' moment: many of us will never forget the first time we saw airplanes crash into the Twin Towers."I had just broken my leg and I was on the couch and watched the planes go into the towers," said SMSgt. Brad Thompson. "And then

  • Truax Airman responds to on-flight medical emergency

    A flight doctor for the 115th Fighter Wing assisted a young woman aboard a civilian aircraft while returning home from a NATO training exercise in Iceland. The situation took place while waiting for takeoff Sunday (June 12) aboard Delta Airlines Flight 1126 from Boston Logan Airport to the

  • Volcanic eruption ends, NATO operation continues

    Near the coast of southwest Iceland, miles from the snow-covered volcanoes that made media attention twice since early 2010, is the former Keflavik Naval Air Station - the location used for NATO's Northern Viking 2011 training exercise.Approximately 450 NATO military members, including nearly 100

  • Follow our leaders...and rediscover mentorship

    Much has been written about mentorship: its importance, how to mentor, choosing a mentor, mentoring subordinates, mentoring peers, reverse-mentorship, and so forth. Attempts to codify, formalize, or in extreme cases, even mandate mentorship often result in the "self-licking ice cream cone" syndrome.