Staff Sgt. Micah McDonald, a air surveillance technician with the 176th Air Defense Squadron, Alaska Air National Guard, evaluates radar data during exercise Fencing Rice on JBER, June 14, 2016. Fencing Rice is a local exercise designed to test the units Air Defense response. The 176 ADS employs surveillance, identification, weapons control and data links in support of the Alaskan NORAD regions 24/7/365 mission to watch and protect the skies over 1.3 million square miles of Alaskan airspace. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by Staff Sgt. Edward Eagerton/released) Indiana chosen for National Guard’s latest cyber battalion The country's fifth cyber battalion will provide a "larger blanket of protection" against the United States' adversaries. Oct 23, 2019 By Colin Wood