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  • Dedication to task

    In the minutes it takes the average adult to finish reading this story, 920th Maintenance Squadron deployed crew chiefs and maintainers often have as much time – or less – to prepare a 20,000-pound search and rescue aircraft weapon system for flight.Tech. Sgt. Jody Winnett has routinely tackled the

  • Deployed family members reunite for birth of child

    After four months in Afghanistan working as an aircraft armament systems technician, Staff Sgt. Jeff A. Parrish Jr. was looking forward to some well-earned rest and relaxation with his wife before the birth of their daughter.Rest and relaxation was far from reality; however, as the first-time father

  • Aircraft maintenance crews swap out rescue choppers for combat ops

    Combat is hard on the body; it’s especially hard on the body of military choppers flown over Afghanistan’s jagged mountains and through its never-ending dust.  To ensure the flying safety of Air Force choppers used to save lives in combat, maintenance crews from the 920th Rescue Wing swapped out an

  • Aircraft maintenance chief retires after 36 years

    On Sept. 10, the 920th Rescue Wing bid farewell to a chief who had been with the wing since its inception. Chief Master Sgt. Phil Roe, most recently the chief enlisted manager and superintendent for the 920th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, retired after 36 years of service in the Air Force.