• 172d's Capt. Keith Herrington Earns Award While Serving in Kuwait

    While serving in ArifJan, Kuwait for the CENTCOM DDOC (Deployment Distribution and Operations Center), the 172d AW's Capt. Keith Herrington has been named the Company Grade Officer of the Quarter. The award highlighting Herrington's accomplishments marked the second calendar quarter of 2012.Capt.

  • 172d Airlift Wing's Capt. Setrick Johnson Captures National Award

    The 172d Airlift Wing has just made medical headlines with the announcement that Capt. Setrick Johnson has been named the winner of the 2011 Brigadier General Peter C. Bellisario Young Health Care Administrator of the Year Award.Considering that 89 Air National Guard units across the nation compete

  • MOU Agreement Has Navy Reservists Anchored to the 172d Airlift Wing

    Although U.S. Air Force and Navy personnel may fly or swim to the beat of a different drummer, members of the Mississippi Air National Guard's 172d Airlift Wing and the State's U.S. Naval Reserve unit are now working together and finding out how much they have in common.With the goal of benefitting

  • 172d AW Heroes Saluted

    With family members and senior Mississippi Air National Guard officials on hand, 172nd Airlift Wing personnel and their family members were saluted for their role in helping the wing to successfully accomplish its missions in support of the United States' global war on terrorism. The Hometown Heroes

  • 172d Airlift Wing - Dental

    ANNUAL DENTAL SCREENING EXAMINATION FORM BACKGROUND: Oral health is vital for force health protection and failure to achieve a standard level of oral health will preclude a member from deploying. Health Affairs Policy Memorandum 98-021 directed the Services to ensure all members of the Selected

  • First Air Guard Assault Runway at Camp Shelby

    The Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center (CSJFTC) just got better, and the 172nd Airlift Wing's C-17 training facilities just got bigger. Already a premier training center operating at a full-scale mobilization station as needed as a U.S. Army Forces Command Power Support platform, operations

  • 172nd Airlift Wing receives AFOUA

    Major General Harold A. Cross, the adjutant general of Mississippi, attached the twelfth Air Force Outstanding Unit Award (AFOUA) streamer to the 172nd Airlift Wing unit flag on June 2, during a special ceremony at the base. Special Order G-0603, signed by Michael W. Wynne, Secretary of the Air

  • Air Force evacuates injured ABC News team to Germany

    A C-17 Globemaster III from the 172nd Airlift Wing and medical personnel from the 791st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron evacuated a wounded ABC news team from Balad Air Base, Iraq, to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, Jan. 30, for treatment at the nearby Landstuhl Regional Medical Center.

  • Airmen of the Year named during annual NCO Association meeting

    Every quarter Mississippi Air National Guard bases select its top performing Airman, NCO, and Senior NCO for the quarter. Then, at the end of the year, all quarterly winners are judged and three will become the year's cream of the crop for the year, Airman of the Year, NCO of the Year and Sr. NCO of