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  • Wing clears a path for rocket launch, GPS satellite

    Reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing provided range-clearance and safety support for the successful launch of a United Launch Alliance Delta IV rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 2:36 p.m. yesterday.The payload for yesterday's launch included the Air Force's ninth Block IIF navigation

  • Rescue reservists sharpen skills at next-generation training facility

    Partially collapsed buildings, dozens of Somalian role-players, flooded housing areas and hundreds of charred and mangled vehicles scattered across 820 acres offered a unique realistic training environment for Guardian Angel and helicopter Aircrew Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force

  • Controlled Chaos

    Partiallycollapsed buildings, dozens of Somalian role-players, flooded housing areas,and hundreds of charred and mangled vehicles scattered across 820 acres offereda uniquely realistic training environment for pararescue jumpers and combatrescue officers from the 920th Rescue Wing at Patrick Air

  • Reservists pave way for launch of world's first all-electric satellites

    Reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing were on hand to oversee the safe and successful launch of two next-generation satellites aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 10:50 p.m. March 1 from launch complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.Within an hour of launch, the rocket deployed the world's

  • Wing supports launch of weather satellite, ship landing of rocket scrubbed

    Rescue wing reservists paved the way for the safe and successful launch of NOAA's Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) satellite onboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 6:03pm February 11 from nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS). However, SpaceX decided to scrub an attempt to land the

  • Local cadets visit rescue wing

    Members of the JROTC program at Colonial High School in Orlando toured the 920th Rescue Wing here Jan. 16. Pictured, several cadets take in the view from the flight deck of one of the wing's HC-130P/N King aircraft. (U.S. Air Force photo/Master Sgt. Paul Flipse)

  • Free tax preparation, advice available to military families

    With the new year comes the annual dread of tax-filing season and the confusion and stress that can go along with it, especially for military families whose tax returns can be further complicated by frequent relocations, involvement of rental properties and other aspects of military life.To ease the