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  • Missouri Air Guard vocalist savors spotlight of NLCS, sings at World Series

    As the St. Louis Cardinals play the Texas Rangers in the World Series, a member of the St. Louis-based 571st Air Force Band of the Missouri Air National Guard made preparations of his own. While still savoring his opportunity to sing "God Bless America" during game three of the National League

  • Missouri Air Guard band gets back to 'normalcy' after Sidewinder media blitz

    After gaining international fame via a YouTube video, Sidewinder, the rock element of the St. Louis-based Missouri Air National Guard's 571st Air Force Band, has been making the rounds of national daytime television. In the wake of the band's 45-day deployment to Southwest Asia, Sidewinder has made

  • Airmen, Soldiers, remember 9-11 in solemn Jefferson Barracks ceremony

    Sunday's 9-11 ceremony at Jefferson Barracks in south St. Louis County was especially personal for Col. Wendul G. Hagler, the Missouri National Guard chief of staff. On Sept. 11, 2001 Hagler was at the Pentagon shortly after terrorists flew a jet liner into the building. "I was assigned to the

  • Missouri Air National Guard Band Sidewinder returns home to Saint Louis.

    Sidewinder, the Missouri Air National Guard rock band that became an overnight sensation thanks to a YouTube video, returned home today from their 45-day overseas deployment.Family, friends, fellow 571st Air Force Band members, and media greeted the 10-member band outside Concourse A in the lower

  • Missouri Air Guard Band Sidewinder returns to Saint Louis Friday

    Sidewinder, the Missouri Air National Guard rock band that became an overnight sensation thanks to a YouTube video, will return home from their overseas deployment on Friday. (Sept 2) Band members are scheduled to arrive at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport at 9:40 a.m. after a 45-day

  • Local Air Guard unit erects high-tech compound at Jefferson Barracks

    If you think setting up your home computer is tough try providing telephone and internet service to military personnel in the field. Airmen of the Missouri National Guard's 239th Combat Communications Squadron, headquartered at Lambert Airport, are doing just that, spending two weeks at Jefferson

  • U.S. Air Forces Central Command Band goes viral

     Fan video of the U.S. Air Forces Central Command band "Sidewinder" went viral Aug. 9.Without microphones or sound equipment, Sidewinder performed a half-hour acoustic set for 8th Expeditionary Air Mobility Squadron Airmen working the night shift at the passenger terminal palette yard Aug. 8 at an

  • Air Force releases updated dress and appearance instruction

    The Air Force's instruction on dress and personal appearance recently received an appearance upgrade with the release of the updated instruction today. Air Force Instruction 36-2903, Dress and Personal Appearance, received the facelift after several years of interim updates as uniform items were