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  • Chaplain helps others through own experience

    The road to faith can be a rocky path, but the attitude along the way is what makes the trip worthwhile.Chaplain Jim Bridgham, 140th Wing chaplain, believes that every good story has drama and shapes who a person becomes.Throughout his life, Bridgham had many bumps in the road, but he always used

  • Proclamation establishes December 4 as Space-based Missile Warning Day

    In the midst of the Cold War, the United States came to the realization that being able to better detect incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles would allow for better defensive measures. Years of ingenuity and development created the Defense Support Program, which uses infrared to detect

  • CONG Red Ribbon Week school visits continue to impact

    The Colorado National Guard Counterdrug Task Force was at it again this fall, visiting 47 schools with a UH-60 Blackhawk to inspire kids all around Colorado to be drug free.Every year since 1998, the Colorado Joint Counterdrug Task Force, based out of Buckley Air Force Base, has conducted these

  • COANG participates in Wing Wartime Readiness Inspection

    Airmen from the 140th Wing, Colorado Air National Guard, participated in a four-day large scale combat readiness assessment, the Wing Wartime Readiness Inspection at Buckley Air Force Base, Oct. 15 -18, 2015.The WWRI is one of the ways the 140th Wing is implementing the new Air Force Inspection

  • 140th Wing assessing wartime readiness, expect increase in activity

    This week, the 140th Wing, Colorado Air National Guard is conducting a 4-day wartime readiness inspection that will include increased activity on the base and F-16s flying outside of routine flying hours."Not only do we support a 24/7 aerospace control alert mission, but we also have to be ready at

  • Security Forces and EOD train together to maximize impact

    Over the past two weeks, members of the 140th Security Forces Squadron and the 140th Explosive Ordnance Disposal Flight camped out at the 140th Wing's Airburst Range, Fort Carson, Colo. to conduct joint training.In order to accomplish annual requirements, members trained on combat tactics, including

  • 140 CES builds more than buildings with Slovenia

    After several weeks of intense labor, the ribbon cutting of the Bile Site at Pocek Base, near Postonja, Slovenia, was an occasion celebrated by many on July 30. After working side by side for five weeks on the project, the Colorado Air National Guard civil engineer team and members of the Slovenian

  • ANG's Outstanding Airman of the Year: Senior Airman Jonathan Smail

    A thirst for knowledge and making connections with people is what motivates Senior Airman Jonathan R. Smail, the Air National Guard 2015 Outstanding Airman of the Year.Smail is a RF Transmissions Systems Journeyman with the Colorado ANG's 233rd Space Communications Squadron, based in Greeley,