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  • CSAR trains to safeguard evolving threats

    The future of how the Air Force conducts combat search and rescue is in lockstep with how Defense Department tactics are evolving to meet the challenges of peer adversary threats. Gone are the days of aircraft simply launching from a large static base, like Ramstein Air Base or Kandahar Airfield,

  • 23rd CONS, 23rd CPTS soar to new heights

    The 41st Rescue Squadron invited members from the 23rd Contracting and Comptroller Squadrons to an HH-60W Jolly Green II orientation flight to acknowledge their completion of the end of fiscal year budget at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Oct. 4, 2021.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 41st HMU maintains helicopter readiness

    Airmen assigned to the 41st Helicopter Maintenance Unit (HMU) perform maintenance on an HH-60G Pave Hawk, Jan. 9, 2018, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. The 41st HMU keeps Pave Hawks operationally ready by performing inspections and repairs on various components of the helicopter. Those efforts are