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  • Suicide rates up for military, veterans – Help is available!

    Suicide is the tenth leading cause of death for Americans, and military veterans make up 20 percent of suicide deaths each year. This is an alarming figure, considering that in 2012 only about 13 percent of U.S. adults overall were veterans."What is unique to the military is a deeply held belief of

  • ORANG footprint at PDX ‘right sized’ to focus funding on military needs

    Oregon Air National Guard (ORANG) officials from the 142nd Fighter Wing and the Port of Portland held a ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Portland International Airport (PDX) today at 1:00 p.m to signify the ORANG's return of 27 acres, 4 buildings and 52 percent of the west ramp of PDX to the Port of

  • Maj. Gen. Dean returns home to Oregon for formal retirement observance

    Returning home to Oregon with family and friends, Maj. Gen. Garry C. Dean formally retired after nearly 41 years of military service during a ceremony held in his honor on base, Dec. 6, 2015.Lt. Gen. Joseph L. Lengyel, Vice Chief, National Guard Bureau accompanied Dean from Washington D.C. and

  • Demobilization ceremony highlights Oregon Airmen deployment

    After a summer abroad in Eastern Europe in support of Operation Atlantic Resolve (OAR), nearly 200 Airmen from the 142nd Fighter Wing were formally recognized here during a demonization ceremony, Nov. 6, 2015.As part of the Theater Security Package (TSP) known as the 123rd Expeditionary Fighter

  • Oregon Combat Operations Group realigns under fighter wings

    Over the past 13 years, four separate Oregon Air National Guard units have comprised the Combat Operations Group (COG), distinct in their individual responsibilities, yet linked by their common combat communications mission.As the new fiscal year began Oct. 1, three Oregon COG units -- the 116th Air

  • Portland Guardsmen bring smiles, lasting memories to European orphans

    Airmen deployed from the 142nd Fighter Wing (142 FW), Portland Air National Guard (ANG) Base, Ore., to the 123rd Expeditionary Fighter Squadron (123 EFS) at Campia Turzii, Romania, raised more than $3,500 dollars to provide backpacks filled with clothing and toiletries for orphans who live near

  • 142nd Fighter Wing Command Chief’s Change of Authority

    In a time-honored tradition, senior enlisted members of a particular military unit conduct leadership changes, marking a continuation of professionalism from one leader to the next. In following with that tradition, the 142nd Fighter Wing recently conducted an Change of Authority ceremony, Sept. 13,

  • Oregon Airman Vanguards Logistics System

    If you imagine earnestness, excitement and a quick-to-speak personality, Tech. Sgt. Andrew Saunders would be a model prototype. An avid gamer, PC-based games, to be exact, Saunders flies on the edge of social norms and strives to arrange life to fit his definitions.What happens when an old computer

  • Portland Air Base members reflect and honor 9/11 victims

    In the pre-dawn hours of Sept. 11, more than 50 base personnel gathered here to participate in the 2nd annual 'Ruck, Run, Walk' event to observe the 14th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks and to remember those who lost their lives in New York, Pennsylvania and Washington D.C.After air