• Woman should be proud of service

    Wilma Vaught is like many other Air Force women - the brigadier general has earned medals, promotions, advanced degrees and other honors, but she has never been one for singling herself and other women out from any other Airmen in the service. But that all changed after meeting a World War I female

  • 189th AMPd to see latest modified C-130

    Arkansas Air National Guard Airmen and the media received a sneak peak at the Arkansas Air National Guard's newest plane - the C-130 AMP - when it arrived here March 21, for a show-and-tell session. AMP stands for avionics modernization program. The C-130 AMP on display was a 1980s era C-130H2.5

  • NCO introduces cutting-edge training

    A staff sergeant with the 714th Training Squadron here was part of a team that is helping to place Little Rock Air Force Base on the leading edge of training technology. Staff Sgt. Todd Kohler, C-130 loadmaster subject matter expert, worked with a team from Air Education and Training Command and

  • Senior NCO earns Guard award

    A 189th Civil Engineering Squadron senior NCO was named the Air National Guard's Outstanding Civil Engineer Manager of the Year in the Reserve Component senior NCO category for fiscal year 2007. Senior Master Sgt. Willard Helmick, the unit's operations superintendent, earned the award based on his

  • Civil engineer employee wins annual state award

    An Arkansas state employee with the 189th Civil Engineering Squadron earned the State Military Department's Activity Employee of the Year award for fiscal year 2007. Clay Hamilton, a general maintenance repairman and a drill-status Guardsman in the unit, earned the award based on his duty

  • Guard NCO earns Air National Guard award

    A 189th Civil Engineering Squadron NCO was named the Air National Guard's Civil Engineer Manager of the Year in the Reserve Component NCO category for fiscal year 2007. Tech. Sgt. Bill Catton, the unit's emergency management NCO in charge, earned the award based on his job performance and management

  • Airman's Creed written in stone

    A Mena, Ark., couple who owns a monument company donated to the Arkansas Air National Guard a two-foot by one-foot granite slab with the Airman's Creed engraved on it. The marker created by Stipe Monuments, Inc., owned by Jim and Pauline Moody, was laid near the rear entrance of Building 118 where

  • Air Guardsmen Called to State Active Duty for Tornado Response

    About 15 members of the Arkansas Air National Guard's 189th Security Forces Squadron were called to state active duty Feb. 8 to augment Clinton, Ark., law enforcement officials after a tornado ripped though the town Feb. 5. The EF4 tornado, measured on the Enhanced Fujita scale, had winds of 166-200