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  • 130th Airlift Wing returns home from deployment

    After being away from home since July, the last of more than 100 deployers from the 130th Airlift Wing celebrated their homecoming and record-setting deployment with fellow 130th AW members, family and friends Nov. 4 through 7, 2017.

  • Chief's Corner - October

    In a SmartBrief on Leadership, Eric McNulty wrote, “Principles, unlike rules, give people something unshakable to hold onto yet also the freedom to take independent decisions and actions to move toward a shared objective.”

  • Serving Nation and State: W.Va. doctor's storied 46-year career

    Lt. Col. John Lackey is seen as a fixture in the 130th Medical Group here at McLaughlin Air National Guard Base, where many people cross paths with the happy-go-lucky, white haired 65-year-old flight physician, but most don’t know his story. Lackey has 46 years of service treating patients,

  • The definition of Guard family

    What was supposed to be a celebratory time in the life of Airman Basic Corey Clendenin, who was celebrating with his new bride, Tierni, on the island of St. Maarten, turned into a life and death situation and rattled the members of the 130th Airlift Wing to the core when Hurricane Irma struck last

  • Air Guardsmen provide critical C-130 airlift in support of CJTF-OIR

    SOUTHWEST ASIA – Air National Guardsmen and their aircraft, deployed in support of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve, execute daily airlift missions out of one of the busiest air bases in the U.S. Air Forces Central Command area of responsibility.With the operations tempo high