Welcome to the #SPP family! 🇺🇸🤝🇫🇮

The Air National Guard has performed space missions for nearly 30 years and provides 60% of the United States Space Force's electromagnetic warfare capability.🪐

#NationalSpaceDay

You voted and the April 2024 #GuardPic with the most hits across platforms comes from the Kentucky Guard.

Lt. Col. Greer captured this image of a 123rd Airlift Wing C-130J Super Hercules deploying flares during an air show aerial demonstration in Kentucky, April 20, 2024.

Reunited at Last 🐾

While Chaplain Lt. Col. Peters was deployed to Qatar last fall, his dog, Adele, continued her duties as the 185th Air Refueling Wing's morale support dog.

This week, the pair have reunited after six months, which felt much longer in dog years.🐕‍🦺

🔗ngpa.us/29486

The State Partnership Program began more than 30 years ago with 13 partners and has grown to 106 partner nations. More than 300 National Guard members and leaders from partner nations converged to collaborate on global security cooperation. #SPP 🔗ngpa.us/29396

#TotalForce in action!

May is Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Heritage Month. We'll be featuring some of our National Guardsmen to celebrate how they're contributing to the force today. Follow @ us.nationalguard on Instagram for more. 🔗ngpa.us/29435 #AANHPIHeritageMonth

Alongside counterparts from Lithuania and Hungary, Ohio National Guard Airmen exercised air battle management, ground control intercept, large-force employment and air-to-air combat beyond visual range during a two-week combined exercise. 🇺🇸🤝🇱🇹🤝🇭🇺ang.af.mil/Media/Article-…

#DYK Hot pit refueling involves refueling an aircraft with engines still running—allowing pilots to return to flight as quickly as possible!

131st Bomb Wing Airmen teamed up with the 190th Air Refueling Wing to conduct training for hot pit refueling of B-2 Spirit stealth bombers.

Fantastic work, Capt. Horn! You are a shining example to us all! 🔗ngpa.us/29399

Congratulations to the Iowa National Guard's 185th Air Refueling Wing for earning the Air and Space Outstanding Unit Award for exceptionally meritorious service for their efforts in 2022 — a time when the unit operated remotely during an extended runway closure. 🔗ngpa.us/29393

Airmen with AlaskaNationalGuard's 168th Wing supported the Agile Reaper exercise to provide combat refueling to F-22 Raptors and airlift for cargo and passenger assets traveling from Alaska to Guam and locations across the Pacific. ang.af.mil/Media/Article-…

.176th Wing, Alaska Air National Guard pararescuemen and a Pave Hawk helicopter worked with National Park Service law enforcement rangers and Alaska Wildlife Troopers to rescue six adult skiers stranded in a snow cave at Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska. 🔗ngpa.us/29392

A Kentucky Guard C-130J Super Hercules with the 123rd Airlift Wing deploys flares as part of an aerial demonstration during the Thunder Over Louisville air show.

The event drew hundreds of thousands of spectators and featured more than two dozen aircraft. 🔗ngpa.us/29391

.WisconsinGuard Airmen with the 128th Air Refueling Wing and 115th Fighter Wing sharpened their defender skills alongside the Papua New Guinea Defence Force.

Since 2020, Wisconsin and Papua New Guinea have partnered through the State Partnership Program. 🇺🇸🤝🇵🇬 #SPP 🔗ngpa.us/29387

Anytime, Anywhere! 😎🪂

Always Ready, Always There!