The Ohio Air National Guard is headquartered at Beightler Armory, Columbus, and its commander is Major General John C. Harris Jr.

Ohio ANG units are trained and equipped by the Air Force and are operationally gained by a Major Command of the USAF if federalized.

State missions include disaster relief in times of earthquakes, hurricanes, floods and forest fires, search and rescue, protection of vital public services, and support to civil defense.

The unit was inducted into federal service on 25 November 1940, and assigned to Pope Field, North Carolina, in support of the I Corps.

One of its former members, Lt. Col. Addison E. Baker, was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor while commanding the B-24-equipped 93rd Bomb Group during a mission against the Ploesti oil refineries on 1 August 1943.

The official site of the Ohio Air National Guard notes that it is "descended from the 357th Fighter Group".

Other units saw service during the Berlin Airlift, the Vietnam War, and Operation Desert Storm.

The 178th engages in full scale training of the Royal Netherlands Air Force under the FSM.

Currently, the Ohio Air National Guard is serving a joint state-federal mission as part of the Global War on Terror.

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency