 Hello, I'm Tech Sergeant Ryan Ponsia with the 124th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron and this is your 124th and 124th. Start the timer. As a flight line crew chief, my main role is leading launch and recovery efforts of combat aircraft, ensuring aircraft readiness, performing various inspections where we document discrepancies and change components to ensure mission readiness. Recently, we went to Michigan for the Agile Rage TDY where we integrated the Agile Combat Employment tactic, also known as ACE. During this, we performed integrated combat turns where we load live munitions and refuel with the engines running. Huge aspect of this was mobilizing all of the APG tools and assets and then performing ICTs and hotfits with minimal equipment. We also set up a forward operating base at Bulkfield where we performed hotfits. Overall, this was a great training for the crew chiefs and for the wing. And now for the news. Colonel Shannon Smith was promoted to Brigadier General during a ceremony on June 4th at Gowenfield. Smith assumed command in his new role as commander of the 113th Wing District of Columbia Air National Guard in the ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, July 15th. The 124th Civil Engineer Squadron arrived with nearly 25 airmen in Tahlequah, Oklahoma, June 5th to conduct an innovative readiness training mission while building homes for the Cherokee Veterans Housing Initiative. The training included structural, electrical, and plumbing tasks, engineering, and general construction work. Airmen from the 124th Fighter Wing spent two weeks at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Alpina, Michigan, participating in Agile Rage 22, June 4th through the 18th. Agile Rage is an Air National Guard and Joint Live Fire exercise designed to train Air National Guard units in the tactics, techniques, and procedures highlighted by the U.S. Air Force's Agile Combat Employment Mission. If you have a story you would like featured, contact Public Affairs to be featured in an upcoming edition of the 124th and 124th.