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  • 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

  • Rescue Airman amputee wins battle to serve in AFRC

    For most, an amputation would be the greatest challenge they have ever faced in life, but for one Citizen Airman, the real struggle came when he fought to keep serving.Separation from the service he loved so much was never an option for Senior Airman Kevin Greene, a healthcare management technician

  • Florida baseball honors military, 1st 920th Airman amputee

    During a Florida Fire Frogs minor league baseball game August 18, 2017, the team not only honored all military and 1st responders, but they took time out to pay special tribute to Senior Airman Kevin Greene, the 920th Rescue Wing’s first single amputee to return to military service after a tragic

  • Rescue wing welcomes new top enlisted leader

    Time, team and tough – these are the goals of the 920th Rescue Wing’s newly appointed top enlisted leader, Command Chief Master Sgt. Douglas Isaacks.Isaacks, who carries more than 18 years of pararescue experience, officially took over as command chief Aug. 6, after having served as the 920th

  • Wing bids farewell to King 30

    The 920th Rescue Wing commander, Col. Kurt Matthews, and members of a hand-selected aircrew flew HC-130N King 30 on its final flight Aug. 7 from Patrick to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, to be decommissioned.The aircraft, tail number 5830, had been part of the 920th RQW for nearly three

  • Command Chief retires after 33 years

    The 920th Rescue Wing’s highest ranking enlisted member retired during a ceremony Aug. 5 at the base theater.Command Chief Master Sgt. Timothy Bianchi retired after nearly 33 years in the Air Force. He spent more than two decades of his career with the 920th RQW.Col. Jeffrey Macrander, former 920th

  • Office worker turns rescue hero

    On July 7, 2017, approximately 80 reservists and four aircraft from the 920th Rescue Wing geared up for a long-range rescue of two German citizens whose vessel caught fire approximately 500 nautical miles east of the Florida coastline in the Bermuda Triangle.Those 80 Airmen consisted of four