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  • Truax Field continues going 'green'

    When Airmen of the 115th Civil Engineer Squadron tell people they are "going green," there is an emphasis on going, as in ... ongoing. Despite already being the first, and only, Air National Guard base of 92 to purchase 100 percent of its power from renewable "green" energy sources, the 115th

  • Truax Airman takes concerns to House

    In April I was sent to Washington D.C. for a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Air Sovereignty Alert operations. The hearing was prompted by a January 2009 General Accountability Office report on Homeland Defense. I met with Lt. Gen. Harry Wyatt, Director of the Air National Guard in his

  • Airmen take to Lake Wisconsin for fishing tourney

    Jesse Ramirez and Dave Dahlke reeled in a combined 15.51 pounds to best nine other teams in the Third Annual 115th Fighter Wing Fishing Tournament on Lake Wisconsin May 8. The winning team turned in six Largemouth Bass for a convincing victory over second place finishers Dan Richardson and Shane

  • Truax Airman applies life-saving skills, receives award

    Many Airmen have received Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) training from the military. Few, however, have had the chance to actually utilize the knowledge and skills they learned. On an ordinary day, Staff Sgt. Tyson Hall, 115th Contracting Squadron, ran across an incident that afforded him just

  • Air National Guard Bands build 'bonds of friendship through music'

    Collectively they are armed with everything from bass guitars and drum sticks to keyboards and microphones. They are Airmen ... better yet, they are rock-band Airmen. Their mission is to inspire, motivate and raise morale through music. They play the same popular rock, pop and country music heard on

  • Air Force, Navy combine for air combat skills training

    Setting aside their disagreements on which state has better cheese, pilots from the Air National Guard's 115th Fighter Wing in Madison, Wis. honed their air-to-air combat training skills along side their naval counterparts from the Strike Fighter Squadron 2 (VFA-2), Naval Air Station Lemoore, Calif.

  • 115th Fighter Wing F-16s respond to suspicious aircraft

    Air National Guard fighter aircraft from two states intercepted a suspicious aircraft as it flew into U.S. airspace on Monday afternoon. North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) directed F16C's assigned to the 148th Fighter Wing (FW) in Duluth, Minn., to initially intercept the plane near

  • Truax hosts joint 'suspicious' package exercise

    "For the Commander Truax Field"   Emergency responders got the call shortly after it was discovered -- approximately 7:40 a.m. They weren't exactly sure what they were responding to, but it was "suspicious." It was a small cardboard box, taped up and found in the command suite of Bldg. 500. It was