Yearly Archives: 2017

 Wyoming’s Gold Star families are being honored at two ceremonies on Dec. 11 at the Wyoming State Museum, in Cheyenne. 

Wyoming Cowboy Challenge Academy Class 34 will graduate Dec. 9…

  The Wyoming Veterans Commission will hold its quarterly meeting…

The Wyoming Veterans Museum and the Wyoming State Historical Society are teaming up to create an opportunity for youth to experience history first-hand.
Based upon similar groups in Pennsylvania, Texas and North Carolina the “Cowboy Future Historians” will emphasize hands-on activities and learning about the fascinating men and women that wrote our nation’s history.

Approximately 100 airmen assigned to the Wyoming Air National Guard’s 153rd Airlift Wing deployed to the U.S. Central Command area of operations over the weekend

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Wyoming State Sen. Curt Meier and Wyoming…

CHEYENNE, Wyo. – Four Wyoming Air National Guard members were…

“I struggled with what I wanted to go to college…

By Sgt. 1st Class Jimmy McGuire State Public Affairs Office…

The Wyoming Veterans Commission will hold its quarterly meeting Sept.…

A Freedom Salute Ceremony is planned for 9 a.m., Sept. 9 at Laramie County Community College’s Pathfinder Building to welcome home Wyoming Army National Guard soldiers from Detachment 3, B Battery, 777 Aviation Support Battalion, who recently returned from a deployment to Kuwait.

A groundbreaking ceremony for the new Lt. Gen. R. L. Esmay Center will take place north of Custer Avenue on Camp Guernsey Joint Training Center, in Guernsey, on Sept. 14 at 1 p.m. The public is invited to attend.

Wyoming Cowboy ChalleNGe Academy Class 33 will graduate Sept. 9 at 1 p.m., in the Eastern Wyoming College auditorium, 3200 West C St., Torrington, Wyo.

Two Wyoming Air National Guard C-130s will be launched to support National Guard relief efforts for Hurricane Harvey today.

The Wyoming Veterans Commission has a vacant commissioner position available that covers Converse, Goshen, Niobrara and Platte Counties (Judicial District 8).

“The mass casualty exercise will improve our ability to respond…

Col. Paul Lyman, the Wyoming Air National Guard’s 153rd Airlift Wing commander, was chosen to become the next Wyoming Air National Guard commander. He will assume command in November.

The Wyoming Legislature and Gov. Matt Mead have designated August as Agent Orange Awareness Month. Mead has also signed a proclamation supporting this work.

Sgt. Lane Fall, from Holland, Michigan, has been a truck…

Steve Kravitsky has been named the director of the Wyoming Veterans Commission. He begins his duties August 1.

A Wyoming Air National Guard C-130 equipped with the U.S. Forest Service’s Modular Airborne Fire Fighting Systems will be launched to fight wild fires in the Western United States tomorrow.

The brigade used new technology to communicate with the firing…

Scottsbluff-area residents can crawl around a Wyoming Air National Guard C-130 Saturday morning, while it’s parked at the Western Nebraska Regional Airport from 7 a.m. – noon, as part of Airport Appreciation Day.

Groundbreaking at the new readiness center site, located on Highway 130, adjacent to the Field Maintenance Shop #2, will be held at 1 p.m. May 23.

The Cheyenne Trophy for 2016 was awarded to the 153rd Airlift Wing, Wyoming Air National Guard Security Forces Squadron and the Wyoming Army National Guard’s, G Company, 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion, during a May 5 ceremony in Cheyenne.

First Lt. Ethan Valiquette was able to knock an item off his bucket list last weekend when he finished the Salt Flats 100 Miler ultramarathon in his home state of Utah.

Rock Springs-area residents can crawl around a Wyoming Air National Guard C-130 Thursday morning, while it’s parked at the Rock Springs Sweetwater County Airport from 10 a.m. – noon.

Nearly 700 local military and non-military members participated in Cheyenne’s annual Sexual Assault Prevention and Awareness 5K ruck, run or walk Saturday at the Cheyenne Depot.

On the centennial of the date of the entrance of the United States of
America into World War I, the Wyoming Veterans Memorial Museum opened a
state-level exhibit focused upon the stories and experiences of Wyoming
soldiers, residents and families during the Great War.

In an effort to provide improved coverage within the Bighorn Basin, the Wyoming Veterans Commission is relocating a vacant commissioner position to the northern area of Bighorn County (Judicial District 5).

The Wyoming Military Department invites all Cheyenne residents to participate in the 3rd annual SAPR 5K ruck, run or walk.

Scottsbluff-area residents can crawl around a Wyoming Air National Guard C-130 Thursday morning, while it’s parked at the Western Nebraska Regional Airport from 10 a.m. – noon.

He said his roles in the community are enhanced by…

Gov. Matt Mead and the Wyoming Veterans Commission are pleased to announce celebrations for the Wyoming Veterans Welcome Home Day, April 3.

In January Wyoming became the first state to administer the new Occupational Physical Assessment Test, or OPAT, to National Guard recruits.

Ceremonies to award the Republic of Korea Ambassador for Peace Medal to Wyoming’s Korean War veterans or their surviving family members will take place across Wyoming on Monday, March 20.

Wyoming Cowboy Challenge Academy Class 31 will graduate March 11 at 1 p.m., in the main auditorium of Eastern Wyoming College located in Torrington, Wyoming.

A memorial highlighting the service of the four Wyoming National Guard members who died overseas fighting the Global War on Terror will be dedicated Wednesday at the Joint Forces Readiness Center, in Cheyenne.

The Wyoming Veterans Commission is hosting two events on Feb. 22, in Cheyenne.

Dave McDonell and Ivette Orozco were recently appointed as State Veterans Service Officers for the Wyoming Veterans Commission

The Wyoming National Guard has 15 soldiers and airmen supporting the 58th Presidential Inauguration this week in Washington, D.C.

The Air Force is undergoing a culture change when it comes to awareness and prevention of sexual assault and sexual harassment