139th News

  • Airman finishes Bataan Memorial Death March

       A member of the 139th Civil Engineering Squadron used a temporary duty assignment in New Mexico as an opportunity to pay homage to the past by participating in the 2009 Bataan Memorial Death March.    David Wennerstrom, a first lieutenant with the 139th CES, finished the event at White Sands

  • 139th Airlift Wing going green this Summer - One of top 5% energy savers

    Rosecrans is humming this summer and the noise isn't coming from C-130s. Construction trucks, cranes, and forklifts are scurrying around the 139th Airlift Wing, trying to complete more than a half dozen projects. A majority of the construction centers around energy savings and the work is already

  • TAG drops by for State Employee Appreciation Day

      Talk about feeling appreciated. Brig. Gen. Steve Danner, the state's adjutant general, dropped by Rosecrans May 28 bearing more than the usual gifts of "Thanks" and "Job Well Done." Danner told an audience of assembled Missouri Air Guard and more than 50 state civilian employees that his top

  • 139th Airlift Wing members provide support

    Approximately 70 members of the 139th Airlift Wing deployed on an Air Expeditionary Force rotation in support of Operation Enduring Freedom May 1-3 from Rosecrans Air National Guard Base. "Their mission is to carry people and supplies from major Air Force bases to smaller air strips in country,"

  • Missouri’s Elite Team is Tested

      Missouri's highly specialized team of soldiers and airmen trained to handle any type of emergency has received federal validation March 18th in Columbia, Missouri. The team, called CERFP, or chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, high yield explosives response force package, has a flexible

  • Time running out to obtain hard copy of personnel records

      Beginning July 1, the 139th Airlift Wing Military Personnel Flight (MPF) will quarantine all personnel records in preparation for mailing records to the Air Force Reserve Personnel Center (ARPC) in Denver, Colo., for conversion into electronic records. Once the quarantine begins, the MPF will

  • Air National Guard to honor GWOT members, families

      Air National Guardsmen who deployed in support of the Global War on Terror from Sept. 11, 2001, to Dec. 31, 2008, and their families will be honored for their sacrifice. Awards will be processed in a two-phase campaign, and then presented at the wing level at a formal ceremony.   "This is a catch

  • Families Prepped for Deployment

      "Unless you tell me you have problems going on, we may not know," said 139th Family Program Coordinator Jane Lackey. "Don't ever feel like you have to keep to yourself or you'll be a burden or you don't want to say anything. We'll have monthly activities where we can find solutions." Lackey and