By Master Sgt. Chris Schepers MIDDLE RIVER, Md. — Approximately 300 members of the Maryland Air National Guard’s 175th Wing deployed to the United States Central Command area of operations for an approximately 100-day deployment at multiple locations supporting three separate and ongoing operations: Inherent Resolve, Spartan Shield, and Poseidon Archer. The maintenance Airmen, pilots, and staff operated as the 104th Expeditionary ...

By A1C Sarah Hoover MIDDLE RIVER, Md. — An airman from the 175th Wing collected supplies and volunteered to support Hurricane Helene relief through a non-profit organization assisting in western North Carolina, the week of October 8, 2024. Maryland Air National Guard Master Sgt. Edward Krotz, a cyber warfare operator for the 275th Cyberspace Operations Squadron, responded to the severe damage to ...

A U.S. Air Force Warrant Officer candidate listens during a brief by Lt. Gen Andrea Tullos, Air University commander and president, at Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama, Oct. 23, 2024. The reintroduction of the Warrant Officer Corps career path in the U.S. Air Force aims to address critical operational needs, while maintaining highly perishable skills, and simultaneously leveraging the unique ...

Maryland Army National Guard members soldiers to the the 29th Expeditionary Combat Aviation Brigade, unload baby supplies from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter at Pisgah High School in Canton, North Carolina during Hurricane Helene relief efforts, October 5, 2024. The team traveled to a variety of locations across Western North Carolina to drop supplies to towns in need after the ...

By MaryTherese Griffin FALLS CHURCH, Va.- Sgt 1st Class Adrienne Toliver is proud to have served 34 years in the Maryland National Guard. “I signed up during my last year of high school. My situation was unique; I had a civilian career and a military career. I started as a traditional Guardsman. In the civilian world, I work at the Defense ...

By A1C Sarah Hoover MIDDLE RIVER, Md. — Airmen from the Maryland Air National Guard hosted a chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear response exercise with regional partners at two Maryland National Guard training locations, September 24-28, 2024. The Region 3 Battlefield Experience Learning (R3BEL) deployment for training exercise, a local training event that enhanced emergency readiness and response within a simulated deployed ...

Story by Capt. Michael Fedner LAUREL, Md. – Maryland Army National Guard’s Cyber Protection Team (CPT) 169 partnered with their counterparts from the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina (AFBiH) for a cyber knowledge exchange at the Pvt. Henry Costin Readiness Center, September 16-20, 2024. Six members, comprised of soldiers and civilians, from the AFBiH Cyber Operations Center (formerly known as the ...

By Staff Sgt. Chazz Kibler The remains of PFC Lemuel Dent Jr., killed in WWII during the Italian campaign, wasreinterred with military honors at Cheltenham Veterans Cemetery on Sept. 5, 2024.Dent, an African American, enlisted in the Army in 1942 in Pennsylvania and was assigned toCompany L, 3rd Battalion, 366th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Infantry Division, nicknamed the BuffaloSoldiers. At that time, the ...

Staff Sgt. Laura Virtue PARNU, Estonia — Eight Airmen from the Maryland Air National Guard partnered with members from the Estonian Defense League (EDL) to conduct Operation Baltic Rhino, a convoy operations training exercise, 13-15 September, at the Eametsa military base in Parnu, Estonia. Airmen assigned to the 175th Logistics Readiness Squadron facilitated the exercise as an opportunity to exchange knowledge and ...

By Capt. Dylan Bradford BALTIMORE, Md. – A Maryland Army National Guard Soldier utilized his civilian training toadminister Narcan to an unresponsive man in downtown Baltimore on May 30, 2024, saving hislife. Spc. Ryan Marani, who is also a Baltimore City firefighter when not serving in the Maryland National Guard Counterdrug program, noticed a crowd gathered around an overdose victim on Federal ...