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  • Airman uses problem-solving skills to help wingmen

    The Rickenbacker spotlight for the month of October goes to MSgt Derek Kirkwood. Kirkwood serves as the Quality Assurance Manager for the Comptroller Flight here at the 121st Air Refueling Wing. He uses his position to help problem-solve and care for his fellow airmen, and his efforts have not gone

  • Carrying on a tradition of service

    The recipient of the Rickenbacker Airman Spotlight for the month for September 2019 is Senior Airman Shannon Barker! Barker is a Public Health Technician at the 121st Air Refueling Wing, and was nominated by her leadership for her exemplary work ethic and expertise in her skill set.

  • Rickenbacker Spotlight - August

    The 121st Air Refueling Wing is proud to announce the Rickenbacker Spotlight Airman for August 2019, U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Autumn Treadwell! Treadwell is a services specialist in the 121st Sustainment Services Flight, at Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base. Treadwell also is a key

  • Airman aspires to inspire

    Roger Bannister, a British middle-distance track and field athlete, was the first person to break the four-minute mile barrier on May 6, 1954. Bannister's time was 3:59.4, a record that lasted just 46 days. Since then, many more have achieved the feat and the one-mile record now stands at 3:43:13.

  • 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