Friday, December 14, 2012
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels will headline the Selfridge Air Show and open house when the event returns to Harrison Township Air National Guard Base in 2014
The U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team will headline the air show at Selfridge Air National Guard Base when it returns to the facility in 2014. The air show, held every two-years at the Harrison Township base, will not be offered in 2013 because of operational mission requirements, 127th Wing officials said. “Being able to demonstrate our capabilities, personnel and equipment at an air show is a high priority at Selfridge, but our first responsibility always remains being ready and available to respond to the directions of our commander in chief,” said Col. Michael Thomas, commander of the 127th Wing, which is the host unit at Selfridge, in a release. The 2014 show - held Aug. 30-31 - will be the first time the Blue Angles …
Tuesday, October 16, 2012
The National Guard Association of the United States awarded its highest honor, the Harry S. Truman Award, to U.S. Rep. Candice Miller Oct. 16.
U.S. Rep. Candice Miller (R) today received the esteemed Harry S. Truman Award from the National Guard Association of the United States (NGAUS). The Truman Award is the Guard Association’s highest honor. Miller received this award in recognition of her efforts to give the Head of the National Guard Bureau a seat on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and to protect the Air National Guard from cuts in the 2013 budget which would have meant the elimination of the 107th Fighter Squadron of the Michigan Air National Guard based at Selfridge. Joining previous recipients such as Bob Hope, President Ronald Reagan and President George H.W. Bush, Miller is the first woman ever to receive this award. “I am honored and humbled to be the recipient of this …
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Two dozen airmen of the 127th Civil Engineering Squadron of the Michigan Air National Guard returned home Sept. 1 from Afghanistan.
Clawson resident Nicole Burch had no words to describe the moment she handed her 4-month-old son, Mason, to his father, Staff Sgt. Kevin Burch, for the first time. "Our 3-year-old (Alivia) mauled him as soon as he got off the plane. I couldn't wait to just hand him our little guy and say, 'This is daddy,'" Nicole Burch said of the family's first reunion. Kevin Burch was among two dozen airmen of the 127th Civil Engineering Squadron of the Michigan Air National Guard to return home today from Afghanistan. The Burch family, along with several other families, reunited with their loved ones not once, but twice; first when the squadron landed at Detroit Metro Airport, and later when the airmen were finally released from Selfridge Air National …
