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The Official Magazine of the 180Th Fighter Wing Vol. 56, Issue No. 1, Dec. 2017 Stinger Vol The StingerThe Official Magazine of the 180th Fighter Wing Vol. 56, Issue No. 1, Dec. 2017 STINGER Vol. 56, Issue No. 01, December 2017 Contents Commander’s 180th Fighter Wing 2660 South Eber Road Swanton, Ohio 43558-9645 Editorials Comments COMMAND Commander’s Comments Wing Commander A Year in Review Col. Kevin Doyle 3 Vice Commander Col. Scott Reed PUBLIC AFFAIRS STAFF Public Affairs Officer 1st Lt. Jordyn Sadowski Features 1st Lt. Matthew Eck Load Diffusser Public Affairs Superintendent Senior Master Sgt. Elizabeth Holliker 180FW Airmen Train in Hungary Editor Staff Sgt. Shane Hughes 4 Photojournalist Staff Sgt. John Wilkes Smoky Mountain Medical Airman Hope Geiger 180FW Provides Care for Appalachians Broadcast Journalist Master. Sgt. George Wolfe 8 Native American History Month DEADLINE 180FW Celebrates Cultural Diversity Editorial by Col. Kevin Doyle Deadline for the next Stinger is the 14 I would like to start off by thanking each and every one Fort Custer, the Civil Engineering folks accomplished Sunday of February RSD @ 3 p.m. Hand deliver articles to the Public Affairs 180FW AGE of you for an outstanding year! Your accomplishments expeditionary training at Alpena, and the Medical Group Office in Building 114 or e-mail: usaf. Airmen Keep Mission Flying High throughout 2017 have been impressive, to say the least and provided desperately needed support to the rural population [email protected]. For more have allowed us to meet our number one Wing Mission - during Smoky Mountain Innovative Readiness Training. information call ext. 4072 18 to provide for America; protect the Homeland, generate We had 180th members go support hurricane relief efforts effective combat Air Power and defense support to civil and the 112th Fighter Squadron deployed to Hungary for ABOUT THE STINGER Red Flag authorities, all while developing Airmen and supporting Load Diffuser 2017, went to Mac Dill Air Force Base for The Stinger, a funded Air Force news- 20 paper, is an authorized publication for their families and serving our community. Dissimilar Air Combat training and Nellis AFB for a Red the personnel of the 180th Fighter Wing, Crisis Intervention Training You have done this through your ceaseless devotion Flag Large Force employment exercise. We successfully Ohio Air National Guard, 2660 S. Eber 23 to the oath we all took when we raised our right hands deployed and recovered our Agile Combat Support personnel Road, Swanton, Ohio 43558. Contents and swore to “defend this country against all enemies, all the while maintaining the high tempo of inspections of The Stinger are not necessarily the official view of, or endorsed by, the Hurricane Relief Efforts foreign and domestic...” The Stinger’s have accomplished and evaluations required to measure our readiness. Our U.S. Government, the Department of 24 so much over the last 12 months. Untold numbers of you inspection record remains clean and through every look Defense, the Department of the Air have volunteered and participated in community events. we have achieved commendable feedback and assessments Force, the National Guard Bureau or the The Year in Photos You have attended school presentations, walked in parades from the Air Combatant Command, 9th Air Force and Adjutant General of Ohio. The editorial content is edited, prepared and provided 28 and attended recruiting and veterans support events. Ad- Northern Command evaluator’s. Our successes are once by the 180th Public Affairs Office. ditionally, Stinger’s have supported The Arms Forces 5K again tied to the individual efforts of every Stinger and Airmen of the Year Run, Fly Overs, Adopt-a-Road, Honor Guard, base tours their desire to work as a team! 50 and hosted the annual ANG Bowling tournament. One of Where do we go from here? Forward! With everything the more significant community events was the dedication we have accomplished we can and will strive to do better. of the 9/11 Memorial. You accomplished all of this while I ask each and every one of you to get better as individuals maintaining your skill sets within your career fields. and as a team. This past year we accomplished so many things as a Organizationally I am working on adjusting policies and Extras wing. The 180FW Safety office hosted the ANG Bird processes to better deal with the requirements levied on A Strategy for Character Avoidance and Safety Hazard (BASH) team, the Force us as a wing and preventing you, as the backbone of this Support Squadron and Services hosted a Training Man- organization, from having to worry about the administration and Leadership Education agers Course, Mortuary Affairs Course, as well as, a that accompanies these requirements. My leadership team 59 Dining Facilities Mangers Course. Maintenance had the is focused on giving you, the Airmen, more time to focus opportunity to take lead on the U.S. Thunderbird Crash on skills and pushing the decisions to the squadron level. Promotions & Retirements 2017 recovery efforts garnering kudos at the highest levels of By doing this it will require more direct contact from the 64 the Air Force. Our Security Forces honed their skills at Continued on pg. 63 The Stinger 2 December 2017 The Stinger 3 December 2017 http://www.180fw.ang.af.mil/ Facebook Twitter Story by Senior Master Sgt. Beth Holliker s part of the National Guard’s Europe through combined operations and State Partnership Program, interoperability. the Ohio National Guard de- Multinational training exercises like ployed to Kecskemet Air Base Load Diffuser 17 allow both the U.S. Air in HungaryA to participate in a Hungarian-led, Force and participating NATO allied and multinational, air-to-air and air-to-ground partner militaries to hone joint warfighting exercise, Load Diffuser 17, May 24 through capabilities through operational training June 9, 2017. while building successful and progressive Approximately 200 members of the 180th relationships leading to tangible and mutual Fighter Wing, 179th Airlift Wing and 107th benefits during peacetime, contingencies Cavalry Regiment joined forces joined forces and crises through regional security and with an additional 200 military members coalition operations. from six allied and partner nations and 10 “Emphasizing the coordination within this different airframes from throughout Europe exercise is significant,” said Maj. Gergely for the two-week exercise, to include Hun- Grof, Hungarian Chief of Air Operations gary, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, the Czech and lead planner for Load Diffuser 17. “To Republic and the United States. learn and acquire new procedures, to carry Load Diffuser 17, the largest Hungari- out these learned new things, in real during an-led, large-force integration exercise, to- the flying sorties, showing the other partici- date, in the country’s history, took more than pants what we are capable of and providing a year to plan and four planning meetings the opportunities for mutual support. This at the Hungarian Air Base with both Ohio state partnership is the best way to fulfill our National Guard and the Hungarian Air Force plans, to train our pilots and to cooperate mission planners. in this multinational environment. This Though the last Load Diffuser took place cooperation with the Ohio Air National seven years ago, when the Ohio National Guard has already a 10-year-old tradition Guard’s 178th Fighter Wing participated but with this exercise we tried to expand it in the exercise, the U.S. has maintained a regionally, also involving the neighboring positive relationship with the Hungarian countries for a better training, understand- military for more than 20 years, recently ing of procedures and a preparation for a supporting several other integrated training situation in the future.” exercises, including a Heavy Airlift Wing “Here at Exercise Load Diffuser, we have partnership at Papa Air Base, Hungary; touched every mission in the air domain, from a bilateral KC-135 air refueling training interdiction, to air superiority, to strike, to event in June, 2015, an F-15 Eagle fighter surveillance, to airlift, and to command and jet training event in September, 2015, at control,” said Gen. Tod Wolters, commander Kecskemet Air Base; and an F-16 Fighting of United States Air Forces in Europe and Falcon training exercise at Papa Air Base Air Forces Africa. “And what we know after Photo by 1st Lt. Jordyn Sadowski in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve. this exercise is that each and every one of The Ohio National Guard and Hungary our maintainers, operators and mission sup- began their partnership in 1993 as part of porters will be much more capable in their the Department of Defense State Partnership ability to defend the nation and the cause.” Program, which links the unique capabilities Wolters, along with several other senior of the National Guard with the armed forces military and government officials from the of partner nations in support of geographic U.S. Embassy in Budapest, U.S. Air Force, combatant commander security cooperation Hungarian Defence Forces and Ohio National goals. The Ohio National Guard was orig- Guard, visited the air base throughout the inally partnered with Hungary because of exercise, underscoring the impact multina- Load Diffuser its units’ capabilities and similar geographic tional exercises, such as Load Diffuser, have characteristics, as well as the large number on the enhancement of joint readiness and of Ohio citizens with Hungarian ancestry. interoperability. By connecting a state’s National Guard Highlighting the strong friendship be- with a partner nation’s military, both build tween the U.S. and Hungary, Wolters touted 180FW Trains In Hungary cooperative, mutually beneficial relation- that U.S. Air Force participation in the ex- ships, focused on enhancing capabilities ercise was made possible by the Total Force and readiness, and a stronger commitment team of the Ohio National Guard.
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