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Hancock Field News January 2016

174th Attack Wing

Jan. 2, 2016 | 3:48

The January 2016 174th Attack Wing broadcast provides the latest news from around Hancock Field Air National Guard? base. This month's highlights include sad news out of the 105th Airlift Wing? as two Airmen died in Afghanistan, the 174th makes history flying the MQ-9 Reaper in Syracuse, New York?, Maj. Gen. Brian Neal will serve as the acting Air National Guard Director? after Lieutenant General Stanley Clarke retires, enlisted airmen will begin flying the RQ-4 Global Hawk and the United States Air Force? will spend this year laying the groundwork to integrate women into combat career fields.

The daily mission on Hancock Field is to provide qualified airmen and weapon systems to joint global air, space and cyberspace operations, in support of homeland defense, and to aid civil authorities at the direction of the New York Governor Andrew Cuomo?. We are home to a number of diverse and unique missions, including the 174th Attack Wing’s MQ-9 combat operations mission, MQ-9 aircrew training mission, and MQ-9 maintenance training mission; the 274th Air Support Operations Squadron’s Close Air Support command, control and coordination mission; the 222nd Command & Control Squadron’s space operations control mission; and the 152nd Air Operations Group’s air operations center mission. Available in HD by bottom corner button (New York Air National Guard video by 174th Attack Wing Public Affairs)