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  • AF helicopter ‘hard crew’ formula improves cohesion, mission

    In the realm of team sports where expectations and the stakes to win are high, teams rely on continuity and chemistry to maximize their effectiveness and propel them to the top. Utilizing a similar game plan, operating as a ‘hard crew’, a team of Moody’s HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter aircrew recently

  • Joint 'spin-up' for the joint fight

    When lives are on the line, there is no margin for error – and for a group of Air Force Combat Search and Rescue personnel, their razor thin life-saving operations were recently put to the test as they mobilized to Avon Park Air Force Range, Fla.During their pre-deployment ‘spin-up’ training,

  • POL enables faster turnarounds, longer missions

    “With hot-pit refuels we’re prepositioned and they taxi to us and with the engines still running,” said Tech. Sgt. Zachary Beggin, 23d LRS NCO in charge of fuels distribution. “They hookup, refuel and their back up in the air and it decreases ground time by 66 percent.”Less ground time means more