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  • Scouting for Skills event at 171st helps youths

         Approximately 1,000 Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts along with some of their parents, attended the 171st Air Refueling Wing's annual Scouting for Skills weekend here April 10 and 11.  Over the weekend the Scouts were given the opportunity to earn certain badges to progress in the scout

  • 258th Air traffic controllers take charge while deployed

         It was a normal day with the usual standard operations at the Air Traffic Control tower at the 379th Expeditionary Operational Support Squadron in Southeast Asia.  The air traffic controllers were conducting normal business until 12:37 p.m. Mar. 22.  That's when the tower's commercial power

  • CSAF pays a visit to the 171st ARW

         Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Roy made a guest appearance at the 171st Air Refueling Wing here March 7.      Roy made a special acknowledgement to the 171st ARW deployed members all over the world after thanking and congratulating Airmen recognized at a monthly recognition

  • African American Luncheon nearing its third decade of festivities

         Though the temperatures were blistering cold and another Western Pennsylvania snow storm was brewing, it didn't stop the annual 171st Air Refueling Wing's African American Heritage Luncheon event that occurred Feb. 26, at the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott Hotel.       In its 27th year, the event

  • Annual Commander's Call kicks off in January

         The annual 171st Air Refueling Wing Commander's Call conducted by Brig. Gen. Roy Uptegraff, commander, was held at the Hyatt Regency in Coraopolis Sunday morning, January 10.     Gen. Uptegraff began speaking by calling the airmen of the 171 ARW, "America's finest," before giving an overview of

  • The new Vice is ready to listen

         Most people know this funny, kind-hearted, out-going newly pinned full-bird colonel whether they can tell stories of his enlisted days all the way to being the former Security Forces Squadron Commander.     Col. Steven R. Painter became the new vice commander of the 171st Air Refueling Wing in

  • 171st takes the plunge in 2010

         As hundreds of people dressed in bathing suits and tossle caps lined the Monongahela River preparing to plunge in the below freezing water, children across Western Pennsylvania were keeping warm in their winter coats.  The 2010 Polar Bear Plunge raised more than $2,000 for Project Bundle Up. 

  • Colonel makes presentation to Pittsburgh Penguins

         As the Pittsburgh Penguins prepared to face off against the Carolina Hurricanes at Mellon Arena December 7, 2009; members of the 171st Air Refueling Wing joined players on the ice in a pre-game presentation.     Col. Mark Van Kooten, 171st Maintenance Group Commander presented Penguin General

  • First Hometown Heroes Ceremony recognizes deployers and their families

         Over 300 unit members from the 171st Air Refueling Wing were recognized at the first Hometown Heroes Ceremony in the fuel hangar on the morning of December 6.     This ceremony focused on those airmen who were deployed 30 to 179 consecutive days since September 11, 2001.  In addition the

  • AMC Commander chooses Pittsburgh as a first stop

         It didn't take long for the new Air Mobility Commander, General Raymond Johns to share his philosophy with the members of the Wing when he visited the base 30 November.     Brig. Gen. Roy Uptegraff, 171st Commander hosted a "Social" event for General Johns and his staff the evening he arrived

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