• 172nd Resource Protection Team: The Quiet Complement

    The 172nd Resource Protection Team, a group of volunteers from various career fields and backgrounds from the 172nd Airlift Wing, Jackson, Mississippi, conducted their annual firearms training and qualification at the Combat Readiness Training Center, Gulfport, Mississippi, in December 2022.

  • MSANG Promotes Evans to Brigadier General

    Col. Edward H. Evans, the Mississippi Air National Guard chief of staff, became the first African American to be promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the Mississippi Air National Guard.

  • 172nd Airlift Wing Flight Medic Praised For Reaction To Motorcycle Crash

    Mississippi Air National Guard Senior Airman Abby Reid, a flight medical technician with the 183rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, 172nd Airlift Wing, Jackson, Mississippi, was recognized for her skill and selfless service after stopping to help a motorcyclist who had wrecked on Interstate 20 near

  • Watson Takes Command of the 172nd AW

    The 172nd Airlift Wing welcomed Col. Britt A Watson as the unit's 24th commander during a change of command ceremony at Thompson Field, Jackson, Mississippi, Feb. 6, 2022.

  • Coastal collaboration perfects aeromedical capabilities

    The range of care that members of the 172nd Airlift Wing’s 183rd Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron have to be prepared to provide at a moment’s notice undoubtedly requires constant training. From burn victims to improvised explosive device injuries to critical care patients, seasoned members of the

  • Joint Forces: Reserve, Guard train for care in the air

    From broken bones, burns to head trauma, loss of limbs and more; Aeromedical Evacuation teams see more than their fair share of battle injuries. Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 36th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron and Mississippi Air National Guardsmen from the 183rd AES collaborated for a three-day