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Winter 2015 from the Adjutant General Expose Families to Harassment And/ in Recent Years, Our Nation Has Or Danger THE OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE WISCONSIN NATIONAL GUARD VOLUME 7, ISSUE 1 • WINTER Volume 7 Winter15 Issue 1 Official Newsletter of the Wisconsin Army and Air National Guard http://dma.wi.gov The Adjutant General: Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar Kadena Atlantic Resolve Inauguration Deputy Adjutant General Army: Brig. Gen. Mark Anderson 4 12 18 Deputy Adjutant General Air: Brig. Gen. Gary Ebben 3 FROM TAG 7 950TH ENGINEER COMPANY GAINS ADDITIONAL SECURITY MISSION IN AFGHANISTAN Deputy Adjutant General, Civil Support: 9 UNITS RETURN FROM MIDDLE EAST DEPLOYMENTS 14 SUPPORT TRAINING IN ENGLAND Maj. Gen. John McCoy 15 ACTIVE DUTY UNIT STATIONED AT 115TH FW 16 FREEDOM SALUTE Director of Public Affairs: Maj. Paul Rickert 20 REMEMBERING SSG TODD OLSON At Ease Editor: 23 PURPLE HEART CEREMONY 24 CERFP TRAINING AT VOLK FIELD Vaughn R. Larson 26 NEW LEADERSHIP TAKES COMMAND OF 157TH MEB Joint Force Headquarters Public Affairs 28 BANG-UP TRAINING FOR 115TH FW EOD 112th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment 30 128 ARW SHARES KNOWLEDGE, EQUIPMENT TO HELP TRAIN CIVILIAN JET MAINTAINERS 32nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team 32 MERITORIOUS SERVICE 35 TROOP MOVEMENT Public Affairs 157th Maneuver Enhancement Brigade Public Affairs ON THE COVER: Members of the 115th Fighter Wing’s 176th Expeditionary Squad- ron completing a combat sortie generation exercise while deployed to Kadena 115th Fighter Wing Public Affairs Air Base in Japan. The Airmen produced combat-ready aircraft for more than 25 128th Air Refueling Wing Public Affairs missions per day. U.S. Air Force photo by Lt. Brian Wyman Volk Field Combat Readiness Training Center Public Affairs How to Reach Us The on-line, interactive @ease offers many features you may not be aware of. Arrow down to advance E-mail: [email protected] page-by-page, or arrow up to page backwards. Follow the red caption text to see additional photos and Phone: (608) 242-3056 Fax: (608) 242-3051 videos. Click on the blue text to open related sites. Click on the teasers above to go directly to that page Department of Military Affairs; in this issue. Attn: Vaughn R. Larson 2400 Wright Street; Madison, WI 53704-8111 The pages are designed to print out at 8.5-by-11 inches, giving you the option of reading @ease off-line. Submissions: For photo or story submissions, The Wisconsin Army and Air National Guard’s @ease newsletter is an authorized publication for members of the Department of Defense. Contents of @ease are please call (608)242-3056 not necessarily the official views of, or endorsed by, the U.S. Government, or the Department of the Army or Air Force. The editorial content of this publication is or e-mail [email protected] the responsibility of the Wisconsin National Guard Public Affairs Officer. @ease 2 Winter 2015 From the Adjutant General expose families to harassment and/ In recent years, our nation has or danger. benefitted from the advances of As a member of the National technology. This has affected Guard, I encourage you to take Government, the military, advantage of this modern world businesses, and individuals. This and these modern tools; however, is especially true of the internet you must exercise prudence. In the age, which has really exploded in near future, we will be providing the past few decades and has had additional information and training a dazzling impact on our daily to all personnel to try and mitigate lives. Benefits include increased the risk associated with a cyber productivity, better communication profile. Social media is a positive with personal devices, vastly force in our lives, but you need increased entertainment options, to ensure your profile is set with and — of course — the world of appropriate controls to mitigate the social media where we can share potential dangers. our lives, interests, sorrows, and None of us would go to bed successes with friends and families. without locking the doors and Despite these advances, there is windows. We ensure we have a dark side to this technology and emergency kits in the event of a each member of the Wisconsin natural disaster. We ensure we National Guard must be responsible provide vaccinations to our children and exercise appropriate mitigation and make sure that their schools to protect themselves and their are safe. In this same spirit, you families. Almost every aspect of our must ensure that you have taken lives is reduced to “0’s” and “1’s” reasonable steps to protect your and stored on countless databases. family in the cyber world — This provides great value for many especially your children who are processes, but it can also create likely more cyber savvy than you dangers for our families. are, but not nearly as concerned Recently, we have seen with security. organizations such as anonymous More to come on this subject. conduct so-called “DOXing” For now, take stock of your cyber attacks on law enforcement profile and do some research personnel and a group purporting on how to set your social media to be associated with Islamic profiles to mitigate potential risks. extremism post a list of 100 military personnel on line. DOXing is the sharing of personal Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar information with the public and can The Adjutant General @ease 3 Winter 2015 A 115th Fighter Wing F-16 Fighting Falcon touches down on the flightline at Kadena Air Base in Okinawa, Japan Jan. 15. U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Zade C. Vadnais On mission, from Midwest to Far East The 115th Fighter Wing is pulling power projection and global situational double duty. awareness. While its homeland defense mission “The deployment gives our pilots — aerospace control alert — continues opportunities to integrate with other 24/7, a dozen F-16 Fighting Falcon jets U.S. Air Force assets as well as joint took off Jan. 12 for Kadena Air Base in and international partners,” said Lt. Okinawa, Japan, to support a Pacific Col. Jon Kalberer, 176th Expeditionary Command Theater Security Package Fighter Squadron commander and the training mission. TSP deployment commander. “The “We’re not going to a combat zone relationships we form during this again, so this is a little different,” Capt. deployment enhance our warfighter Mike Koob, departing for his third integration among the different military deployment, said at the unit’s sendoff services and our allies.” ceremony in Madison. “Leaving Wisconsin in the middle of January is Continued on Page 5 pretty nice, too.” All told, roughly 250 Airmen from the Gov. Scott Walker addresses members 115th Fighter Wing’s 176th Expeditionary of the 176th Expeditionary Fighter Fighter Squadron now fall under the Squadron, part of the 115th Fighter Air Force’s largest combat unit, the 18th Wing, during a sendoff ceremony Jan. Wing. For several weeks, they will assist a 9 at the unit’s base in Madison, Wis. variety of operations — including disaster 115th Fighter Wing photo by Senior relief, combating piracy, active defense, Airman Andrea F. Rhode @ease 4 Winter 2015 115th Fighter Wing supports overseas mission and homeland defense mission Continued from Page 4 The moment the group arrived at Kadena Air Base, their training began. The Airmen who remain in Madison will continue their mission execution as well, according to Lt. Col. Matthew Peltier, 115th Fighter Wing Aerospace Control Alert (ACA) commander. Homeland defense remains the nation’s number one priority. “Maintaining Aerospace Control Alert mission readiness requirements during the PACOM deployment is extremely important to the 115th Fighter Wing and is a vital part of our national security,” he said. Several planning meetings and training missions prepared the Airmen. “Prior to deploying, we have taken steps to ensure that we can simultaneously execute both PACOM and ACA mission taskings,” Peltier said. “ACA is a 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days a year mission that requires very experienced Airmen who are dedicated to the mission regardless of additional deployments or taskings. It is a no-fail mission requiring specific personnel and equipment; the proper amount is essential to our success.” Peltier said key personnel were retained to conduct the unit’s primary homeland defense mission. “We have augmented primary alert positions with ‘guest help’ from other ACA-tasked Air National Guard units to prevent any shortfalls in personnel. We also have additional aircraft that will remain here in Madison to Above, Capt. Mike Koob provide the necessary mission coverage and ensure alert answers questions from pilots maintain mission readiness.” local media during a Jan. 9 Peltier said few will notice any changes at the 115th sendoff ceremony for the Fighter Wing because of the PACOM deployment. 176th Expeditionary Fighter Gov. Scott Walker and Maj. Gen. Don Dunbar, Squadron. 115th Fighter Wisconsin adjutant general, attended the sendoff Wing photo by Senior Airman ceremony. Andrea F. Rhode “They answered the call of our nation’s commander-in- At left, Chief Master Sgt. chief, while still being fully prepared to respond to needs Gregory Cullen and Brig. right here in Wisconsin,” Walker said during his Jan. Gen. Gary Ebben, deputy 13 State of the State address. “This is the strength of the adjutant general for Air, National Guard.” greet members of the Dunbar was confident in the 115th Fighter 176th Fighter Squadron Wing’s ability to conduct two significant operations during a March 4 visit to simultaneously. Kadena Air Base, Japan. “These opportunities do not come along very often,” The visit gave Wisconsin Air Dunbar said. “The 115th Fighter Wing is one of the first National Guard leadership National Guard units to perform this Theater Security a first-hand opportunity to Package mission, and I think this speaks highly of the see how the deployment is skills and capability of the men and women in the fighter going.
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