Barriers erected at the entrance of Ebbing ANG Base help ensure that all assets within are safe and secure from any outside threats. Ebbing is home for the 188th Fighter Wing, Arkansas Air National Guard, Fort Smith Arkansas. The precautions are part of Operation NOBLE EAGLE. NOBLE EAGLE is a partial mobilization of the reserves for homeland defense and civil support missions in response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon