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  • Guardian Angels keep rescue-ready with a new training tower

    Rescue Airmen at the 920th Rescue Wing constantly train and prepare for saving lives; on and off the battlefield.The Guardian Angels here used their Training Tower for the first time Feb 9, 2014. The tower is specifically designed to prepare them for the battlefield by simulating a variety of rescue

  • Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program

    The Patrick Air Force Base Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) Program provides free income tax return preparation for all Active Duty, Reserve and Retired Military and civilian personnel of the PAFB community. The PAFB VITA Program is sponsored by the PAFB Legal Office and Project Emeritus. The

  • Wing reservists deploy to Horn of Africa

    A group of reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing here deployed to the Horn of Africa Jan. 19 & 20 for contingency support there. Approximately 70 helicopter crew, maintenance, operations and support personnel deployed along with several of the wing's HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters in C-17 Globemasters

  • FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Rescuing the 'Lone Survivor'

    For this week's edition of Flashback Friday, we travel to the Hindu Kush mountain range in northeastern Afghanistan's Kunar Province, where a group of 920th Rescue Wing reservists made history. It was there, in June of 2005, that 25 reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing rescued Marcus Luttrell, a

  • Rescue Wing remembers fallen pararescueman

    Rescue Wing members remembered the legacy of one of their own during their Unit Training Assembly Dec. 7, 2013. On Dec. 7, 2001, Staff Sgt. Douglas L. Eccleston died while performing a rescue mission off the coast of Bermuda. During a mission to save a critically-ill crewman of the 600-foot

  • Rescue Wing Airmen support SpaceX rocket launch

    Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) successfully launched its first commercial Falcon 9 rocket into orbit at 5:41 p.m. Eastern Time yesterday, as Airmen and HH-60G Pave Hawks from the 920th Rescue Wing safeguarded the hazard zone.This mission was the first commercial flight from the Cape

  • FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Encapsulating History

    This week on Flashback Friday, we set the wayback machine to March 4, 1982, where we find ourselves in the frigid waters of the North Sea just off the coast of southeast England.It was here on this day that the 67th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron (ARRS) took part in training for astronaut

  • Wing supports Mars mission rocket launch

    Members of the 920th Rescue Wing provided range-clearance and safety support for the successful launch of Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Launch Complex 41 at nearby Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 1:28 p.m. Nov.

  • Wing Airmen return from Horn of Africa

    A group of reservists from the 920th Rescue Wing here returned from a deployment to the Horn of Africa Nov. 8.Roughly 10 pararescuemen (PJs) and various support personnel from the 920th arrived in an HC-130P/N aircraft.The reservists were greeted by an enthusiastic, teary-eyed group of friends and