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Total Force in Action: 728th BMCS Integrates with 103rd ACS in F-22 Live-Fly Control Training
May 12, 2025 — In a demonstration of seamless Total Force Integration, the 103rd Air Control Squadron (ACS) hosted active-duty personnel from Robins Air Force Base’s 728th Battle Management Control Squadron (BMCS) for a week of advanced live-fly control training. The exercise served to sharpen combat readiness and enhance multi-unit cooperation across the Air Force’s control mission enterprise... MORE

Connecticut Education Network Hosts 25th Anniversary Conference, Highlighting Cybersecurity Collaboration with the Connecticut Military Department
May 9, 2025 — The Connecticut Education Network (CEN), Connecticut’s premier high-speed internet service provider for education, public safety, and government institutions, is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. Since its founding, CEN has been instrumental in delivering reliable, high-capacity broadband to schools, libraries, municipalities, and other public organizations, helping to advance digital equity and innovation across the state... MORE

Always Ready, Always There: Quick-Thinking CT Guardsman Aids Rollover Crash Victim in Dramatic Highway Rescue
May 5, 2025 — On the morning of Monday, May 4, 2025, a Connecticut National Guard Soldier sprang into action after witnessing a dramatic vehicle rollover on Route 9 northbound in Cromwell... MORE

Final Flight, Lifelong Bond: 103rd Pilots Celebrate Retirement Together
May 3, 2025 — On Saturday, May 3, the Connecticut Air National Guard’s 103rd Operations Group marked a historic milestone as Lieutenant Colonel Gary Caponetti and Lieutenant Colonel Josh Panis took to the skies one final time. The longtime colleagues and close friends completed their Air Force careers with a joint “fini flight” in two C-130 Hercules aircraft, circling the skies above New England in a farewell steeped in tradition, emotion, and camaraderie... MORE

Veterans Honored with Emotional Send-Off at Bradley Airport for Honor Flight to D.C.
May 3, 2025 — In the early morning on the first Saturday in May, family members, friends, and service members from the Connecticut National Guard gathered at Bradley International Airport to cheer and applaud for over 65 veterans from across Connecticut. These veterans were preparing to embark on an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C, as a thank you for their service in decades past... MORE

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All Roads Lead to Cyber - How one Connecticut Guardsman found his path in cybersecurity.
June 16, 2022 — Inside a brightly lit classroom, keyboards go cyclic. The clicks of the mouse reverberate across the room like the distant echoes of artillery. These are the sounds of the digital battlefield. U.S. Army Staff Sgt. John Young, a soldier assigned to Joint Forces Headquarters, Connecticut Army National Guard, is just one of many men and women, all cyber warriors, in the trenches posed for the impending attack... MORE

143rd RSG Commander Bridges Past With 43rd INF DIV Veteran
May 19, 2022 — HARTFORD, Conn — U.S. Army Col. David Pickel, 143rd Regional Support Group, Connecticut Army National Guard, gifted his shoulder sleeve insignia to Korean War veteran U.S. Army Pfc. Richard Kurtz, 13th Ranger Company, 43rd Infantry Division (Retired) during a brief ceremony at the West Suffield, Connecticut VFW on Thursday, May 19, 2022... MORE

Connecticut's Fighting Irish - The Story of the Ninth Regiment, Connecticut Volunteer Infantry
March 10, 2022 — HARTFORD, Conn — A blue banner defiantly flies high and proudly, weathering the unwelcoming wind coming from deep within the Gulf of Mexico as it is carried along the coast of Ship Island, Mississippi. Resting below a mighty bald eagle is a golden harp adorned with an emerald green field, followed by the words, “Erin go bragh”. Connecticut’s fighting Irish have arrived... MORE

Timothy Ahearn: The Command Corporal
October 27, 2021 — One of the things that makes the United States military so successful is its command structure and its clear line of succession, should a warrior fall in battle. The commander has his executive officer, the sergeant major has his first sergeant, and the platoon leader has his platoon sergeant. Unfortunately, war seldom cares of for such formalities. ... MORE

Connecticut Guardsman turns personal tragedy into 10 years of advocacy
April 26, 2021 — EAST GRANBY, Conn. -- On July 21, 2011, Master Sgt. Jessica Roy gave birth to her first child, Austin. He was born prematurely at 26 weeks and weighed 1 pound, 11 ounces... MORE

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jessica Roy (center), 103rd Security Forces Squadron S2 intelligence and investigations superintendent and antiterrorism program manager, Marc Spencer (right), and their families deliver gift bags to nurses at the Saint Francis Hospital neonatal intensive care unit in Hartford, Connecticut, on World Prematurity Day, November 17, 2019. Roy and Spencer both had infant sons pass away after being born prematurely and have dedicated the following years to advocacy work with the March of Dimes organization. (Courtesy photo)

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