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  • 301st Rescue Squadron hosts skills-based rescue competition

    The 301st Rescue Squadron hosted their annual, week-long “Turkey Shoot” competition where seven Air Force combat search and rescue helicopter squadrons, piloting the HH-60G and HH-60W, competed in combat search and rescue skills events here Nov. 6 – 10.The competing helicopter squadrons included the

  • Wing tests mission command methodologies during Exercise Fury Horizon 23

    The 920th Rescue Wing’s personnel recovery task force construct was executed to conduct a large-scale isolated personnel rescue while spread over more than 200 miles during Exercise Fury Horizon 23 here Sept. 9.The combat search and rescue exercise is designed to hone the wing’s sustained wartime

  • 39th Rescue Squadron conducts forward area refueling point with MQ-9 Reaper

    A 39th Rescue Squadron HC-130 Combat King II aircraft refueled an MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle during a forward area refueling point training exercise in a simulated austere environment with the 65th Special Operations Squadron August 8. The 39th RQS operates HC-130J aircraft that carry out

  • RAPIDS infiltration/exfiltration training

    The 39th and 308th Rescue Squadrons worked in unison to execute RAPIDS infiltration and exfiltration training here, June 6, 2023. RAPIDS is a Special Forces tactic for quickly inserting and extracting personnel into and out of an area. 

  • 308th Rescue Squadron honors Jolly 51

    The 308th Rescue Squadron, Gold Star family members, and friends conducted a special memorial "Jolly 51" workout event at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida, March 9, honoring the seven service members who made the ultimate sacrifice on March 15, 2018, in the helicopter crash of "Jolly 51" that was

  • 920th Mission Support Group executes agile combat employment concepts

    The 920th Mission Support Group applied Agile Combat Employment concepts to hone their tactics, techniques, and procedures to execute field operations in contested, austere environments during exercise DISTANT SHADOW here, March 2. Over 150 MSG Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing were taken to a

  • Guardian Angels Rescue Lost Father, Daughter Near Mt. Hood

    On September 3, a 34-year-old male, his seven-year-old daughter, and their dog were rescued after being reported missing for two days in the Mt. Hood wilderness area.At the time of notification, the lost personnel were believed to be in a steep canyon. Clackamas County Sheriffs took the lead and

  • To the Rescue

    A hospital within a hospital, a first of its kind, was the response needed to combat a new strain of coronavirus that has not been previously identified in humans and was rapidly affecting New York, the country and world.This strain of coronavirus, known as COVID-19, is proving to be as devastating