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  • Reserve wing ensures safe passage for GPS satellite launch

    Reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing provided range-clearance and safety support for the successful launch of a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 1:21 p.m. today.The payload for today's launch included the Air Force's eighth Block IIF navigation

  • Brig. Gen. Richard Scobee assumes command of 10th Air Force

    Brig. Gen. Richard Scobee assumed command of 10th Air Force during a change of command ceremony at Naval Air Station Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas, Oct. 18, 2014. Scobee assumed command from outgoing commander Maj. Gen. William Binger. Lt. Gen. James Jackson, Commander of Air Force Reserve

  • Secretary of the Air Force visits Airmen

    Team Patrick-Cape members welcome Secretary of the Air Force Deborah Lee James Oct. 15, 2014 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., during a daylong tour.   The Secretary's tour began at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.,  where she met Brig. Gen. Nina Armagno, 45th Space Wing commander, Col. Shawn

  • Air Force Reservists train to complete Florida Rocketman Triathlon

    A key component in becoming and remaining a world-class Air Force Reserve Airman, especially in the Air Force Reserve's only combat-search-and-rescue wing, is being physically fit. All Airmen are required to take a physical fitness test at least annually to ensure they're meeting the Air Force's

  • Reserve pararescuemen get back to basics in skills competition

    The term "rodeo" is typically associated with cattle and cowboys. Unless you're in the Air Force.In the Air Force world, "rodeo" means a competition that tests skill-sets between similar career fields. Unless you're a pararescuemen.In the pararescue community, the term "rodeo" means jump out of

  • Rescue Reservists return from Africa

    Reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing returned home here Oct. 2, 2014 at approximately 2:45 p.m. from a 120-day deployment serving in the Horn of Africa.Approximately 55 Reserve Airmen were there supporting the Combined Joint Task Force-Horn of Africa mission. The Rescue Airmen included Air Force

  • Chiefs of police visit Rescue Airmen of the 920th Rescue Wing

    The Brevard County Chiefs of Police Association visits the 920th Rescue Wing on Sept. 26, 2014 at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. Col. Jeffrey L. Macrander, 920th RQW commander, started the tour with a briefing that explained the wing's search-and-rescue mission. The tour also included a visit with

  • 920th RQW takes to the skies during the Atlas V launch

    Air Force Reserve combat-search-and-rescue Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing here, supported the successful launch of an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., Sept. 16 at 8:10 p.m. The rocket delivered a QuikScat Earth satellite and crew supplies to the International Space

  • Air Force revamps AEF

    The Air Force will deploy Agile Combat Support Airmen under its redesigned air expeditionary force construct October 1. The primary purpose of the redesign was to look at ways to deploy more ACS Airmen with their units and standardize dwell times across the Air Force as much as possible to present a

  • Partnership with local law enforcement results in a life saved

    A single car-accident victim can require as much as 100 pints of blood. That's 10 times more than what the average adult has in his or her body. That knowledge, coupled with emergency first-aid training from the Reserve pararescuemen of the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, allowed Agent