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  • 171st ARW members help at Army memorial dedication

         The 171st was asked to help support the 2nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team headquartered in Washington, PA with the dedication of the Fallen Warrior Memorial Wall in the lobby of the Goodridge Armory July 11.      The memorial is dedicated to the 82 Soldiers and Marines killed in action during

  • Communications mobility trailer stationed at the 171st ARW

          The state of Pennsylvania is the proud owner of a First Response Support Trailer (FRST), and the 171st Air Refueling Wing Communications Squadron has been selected to be the maintainer of this mobile package.     If disaster strikes, causing power and communication lines to be lost, the FRST

  • Haiti, on and off duty...

    Whether they are called upon by government officials or voluntarily help a neighbor, guard members can't sit by and watch; national guardsmen always find their way to a disaster. When a catastrophic earthquake hit our neighbors to the south in Haiti, two members of the 171st Air Refueling Wing

  • Second wave of deployers is underway

          Approximately 90 airmen from the 171st Air Refueling Wing went through an in-processing line over a two-day span here, just before their departure to support a 120-day deployment rotation for Operation Iraqi Freedom.      And with the processing line moving quicker, members won't spend half a

  • 7th Annual JROTC competition

         Approximately 350 Junior ROTC students from nine different high schools near Pittsburgh and surrounding areas including West Virginia participated in the annual all day event here, April 29.     Each JROTC detachment had to compete against each other in several events such as the large group

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