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  • Trading Beret for a Flight Suit

    Security Forces Airman stationed at the 171st Air Refueling Wing is scheduled to attend Specialized Undergraduate Pilot Training program.

  • NORI: Team Pittsburgh Excels

    The 171st Air Refueling Wing and Wing Inspection Team demonstrated an exceptionally high level of knowledge, skill and excellence during its Nuclear Operational Readiness Inspection.

  • Guardsman Prepares to Hit Mark at National Championship

    Ready on the right, ready on the left, all ready on the firing line.            An initial assessment of the wind, temperature and shooting distance is made, then the firing begins. With impeccable focus, the trigger is squeezed over and over sending each round flying towards the target. “Good,

  • 171 ARW presents its first meritorious civilian award

    The first ever Meritorious Civilian Service Award in base history was presented at the 171st Air Refueling Wing on March 5, 2017.             Deborah “Deb” J. Krall, the 171st Force Support Squadron’s Airman and Family Readiness Program Manager, received the Meritorious Civilian Service Award in

  • Haiti answering the call 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

  • Communications mobility trailer stationed here

         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