The 153rd Airlift Wing will be conducting readiness exercises from Thursday, August 5, to Monday, August 9.
This will be taking place on the Wyoming Air National Guard base in Cheyenne.
Because of this, the public may notice increased activity on the base and may hear simulated weapons firing for very short periods of time...
71 years ago today, on August 11, 1946, the Wyoming Air National Guard was officially created.
Over the years, the 153rd Airlift Wing has flown in the Korean War, Vietnam, the invasion of Panama, the Gulf War and the War on Terror. The group also assisted humanity missions in Bosnia, El Salvador, Haiti, Indonesia, Kosovo, Serbia and Somalia...
The public was invited to tour the plane, and its various missions and capabilities were demonstrated by the crew and support personnel who came along on the trip.
All eight of the C-130 Hercules cargo aircraft assigned to the 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard, took to the air for an historic event May 14.
The Wyoming Air National Guard's 153rd Airlift Wing cut the ribbon on its new headquarters building in Cheyenne Monday morning.
The $30.5 million state-of-the-art facility, which has been under renovation since March 2012, will house over 300 personnel...
"We've dropped on a lot of really big fires, but nothing we've seen like this." That's a comment from Wyoming Air National Guard Pilot, Maj. Neil Harlow on fire fighting flights over the Waldo Canyon fire near Colorado Springs.
Harlow, who's a pilot with the Guard's 153rd Airlift Wing, says the close proximity to a major city heightens the sense of urgency and the need to get every drop