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  • Rickenbacker Spotlight - July

    The Rickenbacker Spotlight Airman for the month of July 2019 is Staff Sgt. Kyle Taylor. Taylor is a fuels distribution system operator with the Petroleum, Oil and Lubricants (POL) Flight at the 121st Air Refueling Wing Logistics Readiness (LRS) Squadron. Taylor also performs his job as a full-time

  • 220th EIS chief master sergeant earns joint Ohio National Guard award

    U.S. Air National Guard Chief Master Sgt. Timothy Day, of the 220th Engineering Installation Squadron, Zanesville, Ohio earned the Major General Gregory Wayt Visionary Leadership Award for his work on the construction of the new U.S. Strategic Command headquarters building at Offutt Air Force Base,

  • 121st ARW welcomes new commander

    The 121st Air Refueling Wing (ARW) recently held a change of command ceremony at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base. After a busy three and a half years leading the 121st ARW, Col. Mark Auer relinquished command to Col. David Johnson. The ceremony was presided over by the Ohio Assistant Adjutant

  • 121st ARW Emergency Managers receive invaluable experience at PATRIOT exercise

    “To save lives, minimize loss or degradation of resources and continue, sustain and resume operational tempo in an all hazards threat environment” is the mission statement for the Air Force's Emergency Management (EM) Program. So when seven members of the 121st Air Refueling Wing's EM Flight arrived

  • 121st ARW honors Tuskegee Airman at track dedication

    The 121st Air Refueling Wing, Ohio honored Staff Sgt. Malvin Whitfield, a Tuskegee Airman and five time Olympic medalist, in a track dedication ceremony at 9:30am at Whitfield Track on Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base, Ohio August 2, 2018.

  • 121st ARW honors legacy of Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP)

    The 121st Air Refueling Wing held a ceremony here to dedicate one of their KC-135 Stratotankers to honor the legacy of WASP July 13, 2018. Lockbourne Air Force Base, which was renamed Rickenbacker AFB in 1974, was a training location for female pilots from October 17, 1943 to January 13 of 1944. 13

  • 121st ARW Airman receives top SARC award

    Capt. Jenniffer J. Green, a sexual assault response coordinator with the 121st Air Refueling Wing, Ohio, receives Ohio National Guard’s Exceptional SARC for 2018 at Rickenbacker ANGB, Ohio April 27, 2018. “Jenniffer brings a unique combination of both passion and compassion that is rarely

  • 121st ARW recruiter hits career milestone in record time

    It was 2015 and then Tech. Sgt. Todd J. Parkison, a recruiter with the 121st Air Refueling Wing here, was at a training conference. He had only been a recruiter for about three years, but already had around 250 accessions. When he saw people on stage getting awards for 500 accessions, he said,

  • 121st Air Refueling Wing prepares for new flight simulator

    The construction project for a KC-135 flight simulator is well underway at the 121st Air RefuelingWing in Columbus, Ohio, as of March 4, 2018.The $4 million project, including design and construction, began in November of 2017 and isprojected to be completed in June or July of this year.“The project