Members of the 188th Fighter Wing, Arkansas Air National Guard, Fort Smith Arkansas are mobilized as part of Operation NOBLE EAGLE. STAFF Sergeant Charles C. Hilton, 188th Services Flight stirs a large container of cabbage. Part of the meal to be served to the mobilized members of the Arkansas Air National Guard. 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