Ambassador to Lithuania Robert S. Gilchrist visited with Airmen from the Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s Coraopolis-based 171st Air Refueling Wing and Lithuanian Air Force taking part in a multi-day engagement on deicing operations at Siauliai Air Base on March 2, 2022. Members representing the 171st’s Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and Logistics Readiness Squadron shared best practices with members of the Lithuanian Air Force whose receipt of new deicing equipment enhances their capabilities to support strategic airlift in and out of Lithuania. Pennsylvania and Lithuania have been partn


Ambassador to Lithuania Robert S. Gilchrist visited with Airmen from the Pennsylvania Air National Guard’s Coraopolis-based 171st Air Refueling Wing and Lithuanian Air Force taking part in a multi-day engagement on deicing operations at Siauliai Air Base on March 2, 2022. Members representing the 171st’s Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and Logistics Readiness Squadron shared best practices with members of the Lithuanian Air Force whose receipt of new deicing equipment enhances their capabilities to support strategic airlift in and out of Lithuania. Pennsylvania and Lithuania have been partners under the National Guard Bureau’s State Partnership Program since 1993.


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