Hurricane Katrina

Another life was saved from the wrath of Katrina thanks to the concern of Senior Master Sgt. Cheryl King, Air Force reservist and maintenance superintendent with the 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. Sergeant King received a request to locate someone unaccounted for in New Orleans and passed the information on the 920th RQW. Here she talks with Master Sgt. Michael Bradford, avionics guidance and control specialist, also with the 920th about an upcoming mission. Sergeant King, originally from Pennsylvania, has been at Patrick since 1993 and works full time for the FAA as a safety inspector. In the background is avionics communications-navigation specialist Master Sgt. Tom Trommater working on a communications problem. (Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Elaine Mayo)

Hurricane Katrina

Maj. Tim Pfeifer, an Air Force reservist with the 920th Rescue Wing and commercial pilot with American Airlines, prepares his HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter for another search for survivors in New Orleans Sept. 10. Based out of Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., Major Pfeifer's crew is part of a Total Force team of AIr Force Reserve, Guard and active duty Airmen, who have saved more than 4,200 people. (Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Elaine Mayo)

Hurricane Katrina

Tech. Sgt. Fred Zobrist, a flight engineer with Air Force Reserve Commands 920th Rescue Wing, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., moves a panel on an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter to service its engine before launching a hurricane search-and-rescue mission from Jackson, Miss. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bill Huntington)

Hurricane Katrina

050905-F-7441T-2431 Members of the 934th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron lift a litter into a truck before leaving Kelly Field, Texas, on a mission. The Airmen from the 934th made up an aeromedical evacuation team that flew from Texas to New Orleans, later dropping patients off at locations around the United States. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Jason Tudor)

Hurricane Katrina

Tech. Sgt. Keith Berry, an Air Force Reserve Command pararescueman from the 304th Rescue Squadron in Portland, Ore., checks for overhanging tree limbs near his HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter as it returns to the skies over southern Mississippi after checking on Hurricane Katrina survivors. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bill Huntington

Refuge from the storm

050902-F-5515J-002 Volunteers from Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Ga., shuttle a patient who arrived there on a C-141 assigned to Air Force Reserve Commands 445th Airlift Wing, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. About 100 patients were airlifted to Dobbins for transportation to hospitals in Atlanta, one of 17 cities in the country taking 2,500 Hurricane Katrina victims. At Dobbins, the patients went to the 80th Aerial Port Squadron building where Veterans Administration medical people assessed their conditions before they were transported by ambulance to one of 38 Atlanta hospitals. (U.S. Air Force photo by Bo Joyner)