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  • Chief of the National Guard Bureau visits 142nd Wing

    The Chief of the National Guard Bureau, Gen. Steven Nordhaus, visited the 142nd Wing at the Portland Air National Guard Base, April 30th, 2025, to experience the F-15EX for the first time and to recognize members of the wing.

  • The skies have no preference – Black American fighter pilots in the USAF

    We can look proudly at the example these Black American fighter pilots set as air warriors who have upheld the Air Force’s core values of integrity first, service before self and excellence in all we do.  Black, White, Yellow, Red, Brown or any shade in-between, the skies have no preference nor

  • Remembering Shifty

    April 9 marks the annual commemoration of National Former POW Recognition Day. While many people think of this as welcoming our former prisoners home, a number of our military personnel who were captured by the enemy did not survive to be liberated.

  • On Priesthood and Plumbing: Father Peter Julia’s Journey to Service

    It’s Christmas morning 2022. Father Peter Julia, having removed his shoes and socks, and rolled up his pant legs, wades barefoot through the pool of water that has accumulated on the floor of the chapel at Portland Air National Guard Base. A recent cold snap has caused a pipe to burst in the old

  • Getting Patton to the Rhine

    Eighty years ago this week, between March 15 – 21, 1945, the 371st Fighter Group (today’s 142nd Wing), distinguished itself in battle as it provided close support to General George S. Patton Jr.’s Third Army as it broke through the Siegfried Line and raced to the Rhine River.   In recognition for

  • Mother and Daughter Share Spirit of Service While Deployed

    Maj. Beth Conn is a director of psychological health in the Oregon National Guard while her daughter, Caitlin Conn is a Staff Sgt. serving in the Oregon Air National Guard as a missions systems operator with the 116th Air Control Squadron. In addition to their bond as mother and daughter, the two