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  • AFRC leadership thanks Citizen Airmen for hurricane rescue efforts

    Air Force Reserve Command leadership spent the day visiting with 920th Rescue Wing Citizen Airmen Oct. 2, 2017 to personally thank them for their hard work during and after Hurricanes Harvey and Irma.Lt. Gen. Maryanne Miller, chief of Air Force Reserve, Maj. Gen. Kenneth D. Lewis Jr., director of

  • Rescue team saves hundreds from Hurricane Harvey

    One of the biggest natural disasters in U.S. history, Hurricane Harvey, a Category 4 storm, devastated Texas in a matter of hours on Aug. 25, 2017. With flood waters surging and families and pets trapped in homes, buildings, and vehicles, the 920th Rescue Wing was called into action.“We carry a lot

  • Helicopter crew recalls family-of-four Harvey relief mission

    Reserve Citizen Airman Staff Sgt. Gregg Forshaw, 308th Rescue Squadron pararescueman, and Senior Airman Davy Brinkmann, 301st Rescue Squadron special mission aviator, 920th Rescue Wing, were part of a six-person HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter crew that rescued 84 Hurricane Harvey victims Aug. 30, 2017

  • Florida Reserve Airmen fly Texas relief missions

    Within the first few hours of arriving at College Station, Texas from Cocoa Beach, Florida, where a contingent of 95 Air Force Reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing joined forces with several other groups of military rescue assets, they were airborne and exercising their combat rescue training

  • Citizen Airmen saving lives in Texas

    For HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter Pilot, Maj. Jason Tomas, Melbourne, Florida resident who grew up in Houston, rescuing people in his former home state is amazing. “One of the rescues was close to my hometown, within 10 miles. I didn’t’ realize it at the time,” he said, but upon looking at the map

  • 920th Rescue Wing deploys for Texas

    A group of 91 Citizen Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing deployed to Texas to exercise their hurricane relief capabilities. If the Federal Emergency Management Agency or Air Combat Command gives the order to provide disaster relief following Hurricane Harvey’s devastating effects to the state, the

  • Defenders conduct pre-deployment field training

    Roughly 60 defenders from the 920th Security Forces Squadron spent a week in the wooded terrain of Patrick Air Force Base's Malabar Annex, Aug. 21-25 conducting a pre-deployment field training exercise. During their week in the field, they practiced squad movements, urban training scenarios and land