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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

  • 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

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