July 17, 2024 ‘Fly Like a Girl’: Inspiring the next generation of female pilots More than 75 middle school and high school students attended the first-ever Fly Like a Girl event to celebrate women in all military professions with an emphasis in aviation at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida, July 12, 2024.
March 15, 2023 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
March 7, 2023 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
Aug. 17, 2022 Wing exercise validates combat rescue sustainment functions More than 140 sustainment and operations Airmen from the 920th Rescue Wing established a temporary contingency location (TCL) in less than 24 hours here Aug. 1-10, 2022 to conduct the wing’s Distant Horizon exercise, which validated the multi-capable sustainment abilities of a Personnel Recovery
Aug. 9, 2022 New 920th tactics unleash .50-caliber aircraft weapons from contingency locations When United States military personnel are trapped in enemy territory every minute counts as danger approaches and when the 920th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron’s weapons specialists were tasked to find a way to use the wing’s HH-60G Pave Hawk weapons systems as a way to defend a contingency location
June 3, 2022 304th Rescue Squadron assists civilian search and rescue An eight-member Guardian Angel team from the 304th Rescue Squadron was called upon to assist with the rescue efforts of two injured climbers from Mount Rainier, Washington on May 13.
May 3, 2022 920th aircraft structural maintenance shop accelerates change When a bird struck the leading edge of one of the wing’s C-130J Combat King II aircraft during a flight the 920th Maintenance Squadron’s aircraft structural maintenance shop successfully repaired the damage and returned the aircraft to flying operations within two months; saving the wing more
April 14, 2022 920th Rescue Wing develops enhanced combat rescue structure After two years of assessment and validation the 920th Rescue Wing has developed an enhanced Personnel Recovery Task Force (PRTF) structure along with overhauled tactics, techniques, and procedures with a specific design to deny competitors exploitation of isolated personnel.The structure
March 14, 2022 304th Rescue Squadron supports Mt. Hood search and rescue An 11-member Guardian Angel team from the 304th Rescue Squadron battled high winds and deep snow to assist with the rescue efforts of two injured climbers here March 7.A multi-team search-and-rescue mission was conducted in challenging conditions after two climbers fell approximately 200 feet in the
Feb. 22, 2022 MSG expands combat readiness to support wing A desolate airfield came alive as 122 members of the 920th Mission Support Group received part-task-training on tactical field skills during an exercise here Feb. 4.The field classes were part of the wing’s FURY HORIZON 22 exercise and were designed to observe how 920th MSG Airmen would react to