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  • 109AW Intel Airmen participate in Arctic exercise

    Before Canadian Army reservists, and American National Guard Soldiers headed to the Arctic for Exercise Guerrier Nordique 2023 in March, they got briefed on the importance of the training by two New York National Guard Airmen assigned to the 109th Airlift Wing’s intelligence section.

  • 109AW accomplishes historic troop movement in Arctic

    In a first-ever joint reserve component exercise, Airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing landed 37-fully equipped Canadian reserve and American Vermont Army National Guard infantrymen on the frozen Arctic Ocean near Little Cornwallis Island in Canada’s Nunavut territory on

  • 109th recruiter illustrates a children's book

    Tech. Sgt. Stephanie Lambert, a recruiter assigned to the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing, is illustrating a children’s book written by a local author. Since September, Lambert has been working with Richard Crowley, the author, to produce sketches and illustrations that closely

  • 109th Retrograde Cargo Team builds pallets at South Pole

    Four air transportation specialists from the New York Air National Guard’s 109th Airlift Wing spent five weeks, from November 22nd to December 27th, 2022, at Antarctica’s Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station building pallets for “retrograde cargo” to be transported from the science research station.

  • 109AW medical personnel train at local hospital

    New York Air National Guard flight nurses and medical technicians assigned to the 109th Airlift Wing at Stratton Air National Guard outside Schenectady, New York are getting more hands-on training at a major hospital in nearby Albany.

  • Guard Airmen work at the bottom of world to repair aircraft

    A maintenance team made up of Guard Airmen from three states, spent November 23rd through the 25th at the bottom of the world, braving dangerous sub-zero temperatures, to repair an LC-130 “Skibird” stranded at Amundson-Scott South Pole Station.