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  • FOD walk keeps rescue group mission ready

    More than three dozen rescue group members braved an early humid July morning at the 943rd Rescue Group's helicopter parking ramp to pick up very small objects that can cause millions of dollars in damages. Foreign Object Debris, or FOD, occurs when small objects like rocks, screws and bolts appear

  • Scouts visit Air Force special operators

    Boy Scouts from Troop 369, Merritt Island, Fla., visit elite special operators in Cocoa Beach, Fla at the 920th Rescue Wing. One of the special operators, Wing Commander, Col. Jeffrey Macrander, shared his unit's mission and words of wisdom with the scouts. He also showed the scouts videos of how

  • Rescue Airmen attend remembrance ceremony for Khobar Towers attack

    Rescue Wing members honored five Rescue Airmen and 14 other Airmen killed in the Khobar Towers terrorist bombing in Saudi Arabia 17 years ago."We lost 5 members of our "Rescue Family" on June 25, 1996. Our thoughts and prayers remain with their families, friends and comrades--they are not

  • Pararescuemen continue to scour mountain for missing man, despite weather

    Air Force Reserve pararescueman from the 304th Rescue Squadron, Portland, Ore., are continuing to scour Oregon's highest mountain for a 59-year-old dentist from Salem who went missing Saturday. Kinley Adams is believed to be an experienced hiker, and the Clackamas County Sheriff's office says

  • Portland Pararescue Reservists searching for missing hiker on Mount Hood

    The 304th Rescue Squadron Airmen are supporting an ongoing search-and-rescue mission for a climber who went missing on Mount Hood Saturday. Four Pararescuemen, also known as PJs, and 1 Combat Rescue Officer (CRO) were activated by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center to participate alongside

  • Team Arizona rescues off-duty soldier hiking in difficult terrain

    The Citizen Airmen of the 943rd Rescue Group were called into action late Saturday night, June 15, when they were notified of an injured off-duty Army Solider who fell from a cliff while hiking in the Huachuca Mountains near Sierra Vista, Ariz. The survivor was clinging onto a two-foot wide

  • Reserve maintainers keep aircraft flight-ready

    Every morning as the sun comes up over the Atlantic Ocean, just over a two lane highway from the flight line here at the 920th Rescue Wing, Air Force Reservists are already hard at work on the Wing's aircraft.Due to the nature of the 920th RQW's combat search and rescue mission, most of the training

  • Rescue group Airmen pick up injured paraglider

    Southern Arizona Citizen Airmen from the 943rd Rescue Group chalked up another rescue within nine days late Friday May 31. The rescue team was taking part in a night vision goggle parachuting training exercise when the helicopter flight mission commander overheard a possible downed aircraft with