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  • Four rescue squadrons deploy, return together

    Rescue Airmen of the 23d Wing recently returned from a deployment where they provided around the clock personnel recovery coverage in support of Operation Inherent Resolve.Working together to ensure that someone’s worst day wasn’t their last day, the 71st, 41st, 48th and 55th Rescue Squadrons

  • Team Moody, FBI partner for training

    Members of Team Moody and the FBI partnered for roadside bomb and weapons of mass destruction training May 22-25, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga.The training brought to light the similarities and differences between the two bomb management teams.

  • 23d Wing conducts surge exercise

    Aircraft from the 23d Wing conducted a surge exercise May 22, 2017, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. The exercise was conducted in order to demonstrate the wing's ability to rapidly deploy combat ready forces across the globe. The 23d Wing maintains and operates A-10C Thunderbolt IIs, HH-60G Pave Hawks,

  • Medical technicians care for greatest assets

    Medical technicians are normally the first to see a patient, leaving it to them to assess if someone is simply sick or should be in an emergency room.After recognizing a patient with life-threatening symptoms, one of Team Moody’s medical technicians was recently honored for quickly responding to a

  • Moody hosts fourth annual Mud Run

    The Fourth Annual Moody Mud consisted of both adult and child course that challenged more than 600 participants with 27 obstacles over 4.2 miles.

  • Defender prevails, despite pepper spray

    Airmen must complete a class then pass a physical confidence course while experiencing the effects of oleoresin capsicum spray to be qualified to carry the less-than-lethal tool.

  • Airman battles alcoholism, prevails

    “I was in a ball crying and saying, ‘I need help.’ My wife didn’t know what to do. I’d already been through in-patient once, and she didn’t know how to fix me.” After relapsing and turning back to the bottle, Staff Sgt. Jaiopalanta Jones, 23d Equipment Maintenance Squadron aerospace ground equipment

  • 17th Air Force Chief of Staff visits Moody

    Retired Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. John Jumper, his wife, Ellen, and many former members of the 820th Base Defense Group visited to celebrate the groups 20th Anniversary, March 27 to 30, 2017, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. Jumper was a command pilot with more than 5,000 flying hours, including

  • Airmen ‘spice things up’ during competition

    The Georgia Pines Dinning Facility hosted its first Iron Chef Competition, March 23, 2017, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. Four teams met at the Georgia Pines Dining Facility and were given an hour to prepare their meals for the judges. The 23d Force Support Squadron plans to hold at least one Iron

  • Bataan Death March: Airman Honors POW grandfather

    Starvation, torture and a 70-mile march to concentration camps or dying in the process were the only options Philippine soldier, the late Ricardo Plana faced after the U.S. surrendered the Bataan Peninsula to the Japanese during World War II.Now, 75 years later, his grandson, U.S. Air Force Staff