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Video by Staff Sgt. Edward Michon

167th Airlift Wing conducts readiness exercise validation

167th Airlift Wing, West Virginia Air National Guard

April 20, 2024 | 3:20

A U.S. Army M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System from Alpha Battery, 5-113th Field Artillery Battalion, North Carolina National Guard, is loaded into a C-17 Globemaster III aircraft with the 167th Airlift Wing, unloaded and fired at Holland Drop Zone, Vass, North Carolina, Apr. 20, 2024, as part of a live fire exercise during exercise Sentry Unicorn 2024. Held in tandem with the West Virginia National Guard Sentry Storm exercise, Sentry Unicorn 2024 served as a Readiness Exercise Validation to gauge the wing’s self-assessment capabilities. A team of 20 Air Mobility Command inspectors observed the 167th Inspector General’s Wing Inspection Team (WIT) as the WIT assessed the Airmen executing mission-essential tasks in a contested or degraded environment. (U.S. Air National Guard video by Staff Sgt. Edward Michon)