1947 - The Pennsylvania Air National Guard is formally established. Several Pennsylvania units do see service in Korea. Nearly 13,000 Army and Air Guard members are called to state active duty to help with relief operations. 1983 - The Air Guard's 193rd Special Operations Group provides airborne broadcasting and surveillance during the U.S. invasion of Grenada. Later missions in Panama, Haiti and elsewhere have won the 193rd the distinction of being the most-deployed unit in the entire Air Force.
Every member returns home safely.
1993 - The Pennsylvania National Guard launches a military partnership with the government of Lithuania, as part of a U.S. initiative to promote the growth of democratic institutions among the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union. 1996 - Pennsylvania Guard members open roads, transport doctors and patients, and mount heroic helicopter rescue operations during statewide flooding and blizzards. 1997 - Hundreds of Pennsylvania soldiers and airmen deploy to Germany, Hungary and Bosnia in support of United Nations peacekeeping efforts in the former Yugoslavia. The Pennsylvania National Guard today Some 22,000 men and women make up the Pennsylvania Army and Air National Guard today. They reach from State Headquarters at Fort Indiantown Gap, Lebanon County, to some 100 communities in every corner of the Commonwealth.