New Mexico Air National Guard

New Mexico Air National Guard
F-16 Fighting Falcons of the 188th Expeditionary Fighter Squadron over Iraq, 2009
Active7 July 1947 - present
CountryUnited States
Allegiance United States
 New Mexico
Branch  Air National Guard
Typestate militia, military reserve force
Role"To meet state and federal mission responsibilities."
Size1,005
Part ofNew Mexico National Guard
United States National Guard Bureau
Garrison/HQNew Mexico Department of Military Affairs, 2251 Air Guard Drive Southeast, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87117
EngagementsKorean War
Operation Desert Storm
Global War on Terrorism
Commanders
Civilian leadershipPresident Joe Biden
(Commander-in-Chief)
Frank Kendall III
(Secretary of the Air Force)
Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham
(Governor of the State of New Mexico)
State military leadershipMajor General (NM) Kenneth Nava
(Adjutant General of the State of New Mexico)
Insignia
Emblem of the New Mexico Air National Guard

The New Mexico Air National Guard (NM ANG) is the aerial militia of the State of New Mexico, United States of America. It is a reserve of the United States Air Force and along with the New Mexico Army National Guard an element of the New Mexico National Guard of much larger United States National Guard Bureau.

As state militia units, the units in the New Mexico Air National Guard are not in the normal United States Air Force chain of command. They are under the jurisdiction of the Governor of New Mexico though the office of the New Mexico Adjutant General unless they are federalized by order of the President of the United States. The Adjutant General is MG (NM) Kenneth Nava. The New Mexico Air National Guard is headquartered in Albuquerque at Kirtland Air Force Base, and its commander is currently Brigadier General Robert Reyner.