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  • Rescue Reservists embrace heavy deployment schedule

    Another month in 2007, another round of deployments for Air Force Reservists of the 920th Rescue Wing. Since the beginning of 2007 Rescue Airmen have deployed monthly.On April 1 approximately 45 Airmen deployed to Afghanistan to join rescue forces with the nearly 70 Airmen who deployed there from

  • Rescue Wing sets the stage to help reduce teen driving deaths

    "Your life is that little dash between eight numbers; The year you were born and the year that you will die. It's up to you to make that dash longer. Not on Our Watch!," Said 920th Rescue Wing member Senior Master Sgt. Rene Rubiella at last year's teen driver safety program event dubbed Operation

  • Air Force Reservists Ready to Rescue

    The 920th Rescue Wing is answering the call to aid the Coast Guard and Navy in the search for a missing fisherman off the coast of Jacksonville, Fla. Within minutes of notification today, 920th Rescue crews launched two aircraft: an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter and an extended range HC-130P/N

  • Rescue Reservists begin deployment

    Nearly 70 members of the 920th Rescue Wing here are scheduled to deploy to Afghanistan Sunday, March 4.Deploying Airmen are scheduled to be gone for various durations of time in support of OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM. Some Airmen will be gone as long as four months. Pararescuemen from the 308th

  • Air Force Reserve medical professionals make a critical difference

    Within hours of an Army MH-47 special operations helicopter crashing in Afghanistan February 18, two medical professionals from the 920th ASTS, were instrumental in saving the lives of the 11 of the 14 survivors from the crash. Captains Karen Mackenzie, a trauma surgeon and Kevin Wilkens, a critical

  • Rescue Wing Airmen deploy to Africa

    Approximately 13 Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing deployed to Africa Feb. 22 in support of the Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa. CJTF - HOA works to prevent conflict, promote regional stability and protect Coalition interests in east Africa and Yemen through humanitarian assistance,

  • NASA Emergency Exercise

    A NASA Emergency Exercise put Airmen from the Air Force Reserve's 920th Rescue Wing out of Patrick Air Force, Fla. to the test February 13 as they exercised their emergency response skills in the event the space shuttle encounters any difficulty.  The exercise is called a Mode 7 because it is one of

  • Local Rescue Wing wins Outstanding Unit Award 3X

    The Air Force Reserve wing here has won the service's outstanding unit award for actions in 2006, the Air Force has announced. The 920th Rescue Wing is a combat search and rescue unit which trains and equips approximately 1200 reserve personnel to search for, locate and recover U.S. Armed Forces