Kentucky Guard supports Feeding Kentucky network
123rd Airlift Wing earns 21st Outstanding Unit Award
Kentucky's senior leaders hold annual leadership conference
Kentucky Guard Airmen score top Medical Service Awards
Kentucky Guardsmen forge Florida firepower

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Dr. Sami Sweis, assistant professor of international studies at Centre College, speaks to Kentucky National Guard senior leaders during a conference at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Kentucky, Dec. 1, 2025. Sweis briefed the military leaders on relevant topics such as ethical operational implications of the use of AI, and long-term studies on the conflict in Russia and Ukraine. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Maj. Cody Stagner)
Kentucky National Guard senior leaders hold annual leadership conference
Dec. 9, 2025
Senior leaders from the Kentucky National Guard met at Kentucky State University in Frankfort, Kentucky, Dec. 1–3, 2025, for an off-site conference focused on leadership, readiness and organizational alignment.
Col. Matthew Quenichet, commander of the 123rd Airlift Wing, pins the unit’s 21st Air and Space Outstanding Unit Award streamer to the wing guidon during a ceremony at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., Dec. 14, 2025. The new honor, previously known as the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, continues the unit’s legacy as the most decorated tactical airlift wing in the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Joshua Horton)
123rd Airlift Wing earns 21st Outstanding Unit Award, 6th Metcalf Trophy for excellence
Dec. 15, 2025
The 123rd Airlift Wing has earned its 21st Air and Space Outstanding Unit Award and its sixth Curtis N. “Rusty” Metcalf Trophy for excellence, officials announced during a ceremony at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base on Dec. 14, continuing the unit’s legacy as the most decorated tactical airlift wing in the United States Air Force.
U.S. Army Spc. Jean Augustin from the 3rd Battalion, 116th Field Artillery Regiment of the Florida Army National Guard participates in a field training exercise during a military occupational specialty transition course at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, held Oct. 31 through Nov. 16, 2025. Soldiers from Kentucky’s 238th Regiment conducted the course to reclassify 15 FLARNG Soldiers as multiple rocket launch crewmembers. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by 1st Sgt. Craig Morris)
Kentucky Guardsmen forge firepower for Florida
Dec. 18, 2025
Four Kentucky Guardsmen traveled to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, to qualify 15 Florida Guardsmen as HIMARS crewmembers, Oct. 31 – Nov. 16, 2025. The 13M MOS instructors bolstered the Florida unit’s combat readiness by qualifying Soldiers for a critical artillery role and supported the U.S. Army's broader expansion of its artillery forces.

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A historic C-130H Hercules taxies onto the flight line at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 22, 2025, ending the 33-year-old transport’s final flight. The plane, which has flown millions of miles around the world over the past three decades, initially was assigned to the Kentucky Air Guard’s 123rd Airlift Wing straight from the Lockheed-Martin factory in 1992 before being reassigned to the Delaware Air Guard in 2021, when the Louisville unit began transitioning to the new C-130J Super Hercules. Named after the famous thoroughbred racehorse “Man o’ War” during its time in Kentucky, tail number 1231 was the 2000th C-130 to roll off the assembly line. It will now be placed on static display for retirement at its original Kentucky home, complete with restored livery and its unique Man o’ War markings. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Dale Greer)
Man o’ War C-130 returns to ‘Old Kentucky Home’ for retirement
Dec. 22, 2025
A military cargo aircraft named for a famous thoroughbred racehorse has returned to its old Kentucky home for retirement.
Eight wreaths are placed outside Kentucky's Old State Capitol in observance of Wreaths Across America in Frankfort, Dec. 11, 2025. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by Chief Warrant Officer 2 Catherine Strobel)
Kentucky honors Veterans with wreath laying ceremony
Dec. 22, 2025
Members of the Kentucky National Guard joined the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs to honor Veterans during a wreath laying ceremony at Kentucky’s Old State Capitol in Frankfort, Dec. 11, 2025.
U.S. Army Spc. Jean Augustin from the 3rd Battalion, 116th Field Artillery Regiment of the Florida Army National Guard participates in a field training exercise during a military occupational specialty transition course at Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, held Oct. 31 through Nov. 16, 2025. Soldiers from Kentucky’s 238th Regiment conducted the course to reclassify 15 FLARNG Soldiers as multiple rocket launch crewmembers. (U.S. Army National Guard photo by 1st Sgt. Craig Morris)
Kentucky Guardsmen forge firepower for Florida
Dec. 18, 2025
Four Kentucky Guardsmen traveled to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait, to qualify 15 Florida Guardsmen as HIMARS crewmembers, Oct. 31 – Nov. 16, 2025. The 13M MOS instructors bolstered the Florida unit’s combat readiness by qualifying Soldiers for a critical artillery role and supported the U.S. Army's broader expansion of its artillery forces.
Tech. Sgt. Cristen E. Lane, an aerospace medicine technician for the 123rd Medical Group, speaks with a patient at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 6, 2025. Lane has been named Air National Guard Aerospace Medicine Non-Commissioned Officer of the Year for 2024 by the National Guard Bureau. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Angelee Barnett)
Kentucky Guard Airmen score top Medical Service Awards
Dec. 17, 2025
Four members of the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Medical Group have been recognized for excellence in the 2024 Air National Guard Medical Service Awards.
The Kentucky Air National Guard Marksmanship Team earned third place in Adjutant General’s Match, a marksmanship competition held at the Wendell H. Ford Regional Training center in Greenville, Ky., July 11 to 13, 2025. The event tested Soldiers and Airmen with realistic, combat-focused shooting scenarios designed to sharpen weapons proficiency and lethality. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Airman 1st Class Angelee Barnett)
Kentucky Air Guard Marksmanship Team places 3rd in Adjutant General's Match
Dec. 16, 2025
The Kentucky Air National Guard Marksmanship Team placed third overall in the 2025 Adjutant General’s Match at the Wendell H. Ford Regional Training Center in Greenville, Ky., with three Airmen claiming the “Governor’s Twenty” tab for scoring in the top 20 percent of all competitors.
Col. Matthew Quenichet, commander of the 123rd Airlift Wing, pins the unit’s 21st Air and Space Outstanding Unit Award streamer to the wing guidon during a ceremony at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., Dec. 14, 2025. The new honor, previously known as the Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, continues the unit’s legacy as the most decorated tactical airlift wing in the United States Air Force. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Master Sgt. Joshua Horton)
123rd Airlift Wing earns 21st Outstanding Unit Award, 6th Metcalf Trophy for excellence
Dec. 15, 2025
The 123rd Airlift Wing has earned its 21st Air and Space Outstanding Unit Award and its sixth Curtis N. “Rusty” Metcalf Trophy for excellence, officials announced during a ceremony at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base on Dec. 14, continuing the unit’s legacy as the most decorated tactical airlift wing in the United States Air Force.
Col. Kevin Krauss, left, commander of the 123rd Mission Support Group, presents a certificate of retirement to Chief Master Sgt. Krome Raymond during a ceremony at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base in Louisville, Ky., Sept. 7, 2025. Raymond, senior enlisted leader for the 123rd Mission Support Group, served 22 years in both the active-duty Air Force and Kentucky Air Guard during three periods of enlistment spread over 38 years. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Senior Airman Annaliese Billings)
Raymond retires, concluding more than two decades of military service
Dec. 14, 2025
Chief Master Sgt. Krome Raymond, senior enlisted leader for the 123rd Mission Support Group, retired from military service during a ceremony at the Kentucky Air National Guard Base Sept. 7.
Around 30 Kentucky Army National Guard Soldiers helps pack boxes of food at Gods Pantry in Lexington, Kentucky from Nov. 19, 2025. The Soldiers stepped up and answered the call with helping food insecurity needs caused by the 43-day government shutdown.
Kentucky National Guard supports Feeding Kentucky network during lapse in federal appropriations
Dec. 9, 2025
Kentucky National Guard Airmen and Soldiers completed a two-week food-bank-support mission across the Commonwealth, sorting and packing over 25,000 food boxes for Kentuckians in need from Nov. 10-26, 2025.