• 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

  • Missouri Army and Air National Guard combine efforts to save levees

    Flood missions persisted in Carroll County as members of the Missouri Army and Air National Guard combined efforts to continue battling the overtopping water at Belcher Lozier Levee and Miles Point Levee. Units from the Missouri National Guard working at the levees included the 1-129th Field

  • 131st Bomb Wing concludes annual training with family day

    Both past and present Missouri National Guardsmen from the 131st Bomb Wing and their families participated in the wing's family day at Ike Skelton Park on Whiteman Air Force Base.Col. Michael Francis, 131st Bomb Wing vice commander, said the wing picnic and retiree day capped off the 12 days of