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North Carolina chiefs meet up

  • Published April 18, 2019
  • By Air Force Master Sgt. Mike R. Smith
  • I.G. Brown Training and Education Center
MCGHEE TYSON AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, Tenn. --  

Happy Patriots' Day this week!

U.S. Air Force, North Carolina Air National Guard chief master sergeants, assigned to the 145th Airlift Wing in Charlotte took a moment for a group photograph, April 17, 2019, outside Patriot Hall on the I.G. Brown Training and Education Center at McGhee Tyson Air National Guard Base in East Tennessee.

The chiefs held a three-day workshop, to include TEC's bullet-writing course.

TEC is the Air National Guard's primary learning campus and instructs roughly 11,000 total Air Force Airmen, sister services, and international partners through enlisted professional military education as well as professional continuing education.

The Minuteman statue outside Patriot Hall is the most requested spot on the campus for group photographs.

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