Air Force Maj. Gen. Mark Bartman, adjutant general of the Ohio National Guard, speaks to several Ohio Air National Guard members from the 179th Airlift Wing at the closing ceremony of Exercise Load Diffuser at Kecskemet Air Base, Hungary, June 8. The 179th Airlift Wing deployed nearly 40 Airmen and two C-130 Hercules to participate alongside approximately 350 military members from Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic in Exercise Load Diffuser, a multinational flying exercise focused on conducting military-to-military engagements, interoperability and maintaining joi
Air Force Maj. Gen. Mark Bartman, adjutant general of the Ohio National Guard, speaks to several Ohio Air National Guard members from the 179th Airlift Wing at the closing ceremony of Exercise Load Diffuser at Kecskemet Air Base, Hungary, June 8. The 179th Airlift Wing deployed nearly 40 Airmen and two C-130 Hercules to participate alongside approximately 350 military members from Hungary, Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic in Exercise Load Diffuser, a multinational flying exercise focused on conducting military-to-military engagements, interoperability and maintaining joint readiness. The exercise is the first Load Diffuser Exercise in Hungary in seven years and only the third of its kind in the two-decade partnership between Hungary and the Ohio National Guard that is focused on bolstering relationships within the Air National Guard’s State Partnership Program. Air National Guard photo by 1st Lt. Jordyn Sadowski.
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