Michigan National Guard

127th Combat Readiness Inspection
September 29, 2025 — The 127th Wing of the Michigan Air National Guard successfully completed a combat readiness inspection at Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Sept.14, 2025. The CRI is an evaluation of a unit’s readiness, whereby inspectors come from higher headquarters to observe the wing’s ability to rapidly generate and sustain combat power in support of national... MORE

Michigan Airmen work toward doctorate degree
September 29, 2025 — Notified that there was a concern that the jet fuel at the base’s storage facility had somehow become contaminated, Staff Sgt. Devin Houle donned a thick rubber apron, gloves and a face mask and headed out to one of the R-11 fuels trucks at Selfridge Air National Guard Base.This time, it was all a simulation, part of a four-day combat readiness... MORE

Communications squadron Airmen support ERRE operations
September 29, 2025 — The 45 Citizen-Airmen of the Michigan Air National Guard’s 127th Communications Squadron played a unique dual role during a recent series of combat readiness inspections and exercises at Selfridge Air National Guard Base.The “Comms” Airmen were working to both defend and secure the base’s connectivity and also to control “injects” that cut the... MORE

Michigan National Guard partners with MSU Law School to host West African military legal professionals
September 29, 2025 — EAST LANSING, Mich. — On Aug. 21, 2025, judge advocates from the 110th Wing and Michigan National Guard Joint Forces Headquarters joined faculty from the Michigan State University College of Law to host five legal professionals from the Armed Forces of Liberia and the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces.This engagement, part of a three-day State... MORE

Northern Strike 25-2 demonstrates Air Operations Center forward experiment
September 29, 2025 — Integrating the Air Operations Center (AOC) into the Air Force’s Agile Combat Employment (ACE) concept is critical to maintaining command and control (C2) in a degraded environment. During Exercise Northern Strike 25-2, the 110th Wing took this challenge head-on by rapidly deploying a joint team from Battle Creek Air National Guard Base to the... MORE

Northern Strike 25: Training for Tomorrow’s Fight
August 21, 2025 — CAMP GRAYLING, Mich.—In the swelter of the August heat, the convoys and cargo planes arrive. U.S. Marines, Army reservists and Guardsmen, and international partners who know too well war is no longer theoretical, descend upon Northern Michigan. They pack their gear, trudge the pine forest trails, and listen for the high buzz of drones. Somewhere... MORE

How Northern Strike Brings Electromagnetic Warfare to the Front Lines
August 21, 2025 — CAMP GRAYLING, Mich.—In modern warfare, battles are not only fought with rifles, tanks and artillery. Some of the most decisive victories are won in unseen battles, such as those fought across the electromagnetic spectrum. At Northern Strike, the National Guard’s premier readiness exercise held at Michigan’s National All-Domain Warfighting Center,... MORE

110th Wing Welcomes First Air Force Warrant Officers in Over Six Decades
August 21, 2025 — BATTLE CREEK, Mich. — The 110th Wing is proud to announce a historic milestone as three Airmen from the wing, graduated from the U.S. Air Force Warrant Officer Training School (WOTS), Maxwell AFB, Alabama, on July 30, 2025, becoming the first Air Force warrant officers assigned to the 110th Wing in more than 66 years.These warrant officers were a... MORE

Silent Swarm 25 brings innovation, experimentation to Alpena
August 21, 2025 — ALPENA, Mich. — Fifty companies, representing more than 65 experiments, joined the U.S. Navy, Michigan National Guard (MING) and other agencies in Alpena, Michigan, for two weeks in July to showcase new and emerging technologies designed to allow the military to address evolving threats and stay at the forefront of new advances.During the series of... MORE

Engine troops, heart of A-10
August 21, 2025 — Aerospace propulsion technicians in the 127th Maintenance Group’s propulsion shop are preparing to make a big change.The Airmen in the shop currently service and maintain the TF34-GE100 turbofan engines that power the A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft that are assigned to Selfridge Air National Guard Base, Michigan. On April 29, 2025, President Donald... MORE