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  • Senior NCO of the Year

    Master Sgt. Brent Burch, a pararescueman at the 308th Rescue Squadron, Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, was named the 920th Rescue Wing’s Senior Noncommissioned Officer of the Year for 2016. Burch enabled more than 350 training events and was selected as the squadron’s logistics superintendent. He

  • NCO of the Year

    Tech. Sgt. Allison Williams, an immunization backup technician at the 920th Aerospace Medicine Squadron, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, was named the 920th Rescue Wing’s Noncommissioned Officer of the Year for 2016. Williams conducted training and maintained 717 shot records for eight

  • 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

  • Reserve warriors support successful launch

    The U.S. Air Force Reserve's 920th Rescue Wing supported United Launch Alliance’s successful launch of the third Space Based Infrared Systems Geosynchronous Earth Orbit spacecraft aboard an Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Station, Florida, Jan. 20 at 7:42 p.m. ET.The

  • Air commando assumes command of 920th Rescue Wing

    Col. Kurt Matthews assumed command of the 920th Rescue Wing here Dec. 3 in a change of command ceremony officiated by Maj. Gen. Richard Scobee, 10th Air Force, Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas.   Matthews replaced Col. Jeffrey L. Macrander who served as the 920th RQW commander

  • Citizen Airmen from Patrick earn CCAF degrees

    Twenty-one Reserve Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing here received their Associate of Applied Science degrees from the Community College of the Air Force Dec. 4 during a ceremony at the Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute here. During the ceremony, Col. Brett Howard, the 920th RQW vice

  • PAFB supports multi-agency astronaut recovery team

    The 45th Operations Group Detachment 3 recently coordinated and participated in an Underway Recovery Test-5 (URT-5) at sea off the coast of California as part of a U.S. government interagency effort to safely retrieve the Orion crew module that is capable of carrying humans into deep space. Known as

  • Beached whale encounter leads Airman to Sea World volunteerism

    As an Air Force Reserve security forces Airman, Tech. Sgt. Bridget Gayden never imagined she’d be responding to help a sick mammal, however on Sept. 7, Gayden and fellow 920th Rescue Wing SF Airmen were called to help a 10-foot whale stranded on Patrick Air Force Base’s beach.“It was an