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  • FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Rescuing the 'Lone Survivor'

    For this week's edition of Flashback Friday, we travel to the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province, where a group of 920th Rescue Wing reservists made history. It was there, in June of 2005, that 25 reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing rescued Marcus Luttrell, a

  • Rescue Wing remembers fallen pararescueman

    Rescue Wing members remembered the legacy of one of their own during their Unit Training Assembly Dec. 7, 2013. On Dec. 7, 2001, Staff Sgt. Douglas L. Eccleston died while performing a rescue mission off the coast of Bermuda. During a mission to save a critically-ill crewman of the 600-foot

  • Rescue Wing Airmen support SpaceX rocket launch

    Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully launched its first commercial Falcon 9 rocket into orbit at 5:41 p.m. Eastern Time yesterday, as Airmen and HH-60G Pave Hawks from the 920th Rescue Wing safeguarded the hazard zone.This mission was the first commercial flight from the Cape

  • FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Encapsulating History

    This week on Flashback Friday, we set the wayback machine to March 4, 1982, where we find ourselves in the frigid waters of the North Sea just off the coast of southeast England.It was here on this day that the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron (ARRS) took part in training for astronaut

  • Wing supports Mars mission rocket launch

    Members of the 920th Rescue Wing provided range-clearance and safety support for the successful launch of Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 1:28 p.m. Nov.

  • Wing Airmen return from Horn of Africa

    A group of reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing here returned from a deployment to the Horn of Africa Nov. 8.Roughly 10 pararescuemen (PJs) and various support personnel from the 920th arrived in an HC-130P/N aircraft.The reservists were greeted by an enthusiastic, teary-eyed group of friends and

  • FLASHBACK FRIDAY: A BLAST FROM THE PAST

    On May 18, 1980, Mount St. Helens erupted in an explosion 400 times stronger than the atom bomb dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki 35 years earlier. The blast threw a cloud of debris 16 miles above sea level--or, roughly three times the height of Mount Everest. One of the 920th Rescue Wing's

  • FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Rescue makes national headlines

    This week, we flash back to July 13, 1989, and a rescue got the whole country's attention -- as much for the nature of the rescue as for the story of the man who got saved. Early that morning, the 301st Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, Homestead AFB, Fla., got a call for help with a man who