Duty | Honor | Texas

TSGT SCOTT ELBERS from the 136th Airlift Wing Maintenance Group, prepares to paint a C-130J Hercules aircraft inside a hangar at the Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, Port Hueneme, California, July 8, 2021. The California Air National Guard’s 146th Airlift Wing has dutifully maintained the soon to be painted C-130J aircraft while awaiting a scheduled transfer to the Texas Air National Guard’s 136th Airlift Wing.

(Photo by SrA Michelle Ulber)

PORT HUENEME, CA

KUWAIT

BG WIN BURKETT, Task Force Spartan Deputy Commanding General of Operations, 36th Infantry Division, reenlists SPC Karina Castillo with the Task Force Spartan JAG office onboard a Kuwaiti Navy Ship.

(Photo courtesy of the 36th Infantry Division)

SAN ANTONIO

2ND LT RYAN MCGOLDRICK, 149th Fighter Wing Civil Engineering environmental manager, jackhammers a section of concrete loose from the flight line at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas, June 29, 2021. These routine flight line repairs are done as preventative maintenance when cracks or faults appear as a way to reduce potential

damage to aircraft. (Photo by Sra Ryan Mancuso)

PALACIOS

PFC SUSANNA OZUNA, 2nd Brigade, Texas State Guard, shares her poncho with Mrs. Edna Hill, local resident and Lions Club volunteer, while she visits the traveling replica of the Vietnam War Memorial during the 4th of July Celebration, Palacios, Texas. (Photo by WO1 Gregory Illich)

GREAT FALLS, MT

THIS IS THE 136TH AIRLIFT WING’S FIRST OFFICIAL TRANSFER of their C-130Hs to it’s new home with the Montana Air National Guard – 120th Airlift Wing. The 136th Airlift Wing will receive eight new C-130Js in the coming months replacing the unit’s entire fleet as part of the National Guard’s program of modernization. (Photo by SSgt Sean Kornegay)

AFRICA

WHAT WEIGHS 67 TONS, has 1,500 horsepower and will be joining the Texas National Guard? An Armored Cavalry Regiment to be stationed in Temple, Texas. Soldiers, NCOs and Officers willing to RECLASS should visit tmd.texas.gov/3-278-ACR for more information.

MEMBERS OF THE 36TH INFANTRY DIVISION at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, proudly display their coins for superior performance presented to them by BG Michael Adame, 36th Infantry Division Deputy Commander – Support. Pictured left to right are: LTC William “Rusty” Weedman, SFC

Omar Marqueses, SFC Tol Hay, MAJ Rosie Baptiste, BG Michael Adame

and LTC Robert Cederstrom.

AUSTIN

FORT WORTH

THE 136TH AIRLIFT WING MADE HISTORY June 9, 2021, when the wing conduced it’s first flight with an all-female aircrew. 136th Maintenance Group Crew Chief, TSgt Tiffany Rockwell, even did the honors of launching them out. The crew included: Lt Col Sandie Pynes – Pilot, 1st Lt Jen Sloane – Pilot, Capt Meagan Kemp – Navigator, TSgt Sarah Parsley – Flight Engineer, and SSgt

Eve Broughton – Loadmaster. (Photo courtesy of the 136th Airlift Wing) TSGT PEGGY MILLER of the Texas Air National Guard performed the National Anthem and members from the Texas Army National Guard’s, 36th Infantry Division Band provided the Color Guard for a Austin FC military appreciation home game in Austin, Texas.

KUWAIT SAN ANTONIO

MG JOHN RHODES (center right), Commanding General, 29th Infantry Division, Virginia Army National Guard, assumed command of Task Force Spartan from MG Patrick Hamilton (center left), Commanding General, 36th Infantry Division, Texas Army National Guard at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, July 20. The transfer of authority ceremony was presided over by LTG Terry Ferrell, Commanding General, U.S. Army Central. During the same ceremony, CSM Daryl Plude (far right), Division Command Sergeant Major, 29th Infantry Division, assumed responsibility from CSM Mark Horn (far left), Division Command Sergeant ON MEMORIAL DAY, SGT Elizabeth Laws and Texas National Guard service members administered vaccines for basic trainees at Lackland AFB as part of the Joint Task Force efforts to vaccinate both military personnel and civilians across the State of Texas. Their nine-person Mobile Vaccination Team (MVT) vaccinated 510 trainees.