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  • 41st HMU Airmen earn perfection

    Airmen assigned to the 41st Helicopter Maintenance Unit launch HH-60G Pave Hawks every day.It’s been three years since they launched one like this, though.On Aug. 5, the 41st HMU launched a “black letter” HH-60G, a helicopter with zero discrepancies from nose to tail, inside and out.

  • 41st HMU keep helos running

    Airmen assigned to the 41st Helicopter Maintenance Unit performed a gearbox seal replacement on a spare HH-60G Pave Hawk engine Jan. 15, 2020, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. These repairs are performed to increase spare-part availability of HH-60G engines. This allows the 41st HMU to swiftly

  • Santa drops in for Christmas

    The 347th Rescue Group and 23d Maintenance Group hosted the Children’s Christmas Party Dec. 14, 2019, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. The annual event gave more than 400 children and their families an opportunity to enjoy time together, take photos with Santa and play holiday-themed games.

  • Rescue helicopter pilots showcase VR capability to ACC leadership

    Helicopter pilots and special mission aviators from the 41st Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, performed a demonstration of a virtual reality (VR) training system here for Air Combat Command leadership July 8, 2019, as part of a squadron-led innovation showcase.

  • 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,

  • Moody gets into the holiday spirit

    Team Moody got into the holiday spirit with several festive events around base, Nov. 30-Dec. 3, 2018, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. The different events consisted of the Tree Lighting Ceremony, a children's Christmas party and the Airmen Cookie Drive.

  • Moody welcomes home rescue warriors

    Team Moody and loved ones welcomed back personnel from the 41st and 71st Rescue Squadrons (RQS) as they returned home from a deployment, Oct. 9, 2018, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. The rescue squadrons provided combat search and rescue capabilities while members from the 723d Aircraft Maintenance

  • Airmen partner toward quicker deployments

    Rescue Airmen from the 23d Wing visited the Devil Raiders of the 621st Contingency Response Wing (CRW), May 21-23, to better understand the essential assets to stand up rescue operations from bare-base situations.Although the 23d Wing’s mission to organize, train, equip and maintain combat-ready for

  • 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