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  • USAF’s First HH-60W Jolly Green II Arrives at Moody

    The 23rd Wing and 347th Rescue Group leadership received the Air Force’s first two HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopters at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Nov. 5, 2020. The HH-60W comes equipped with a wide range of capabilities that will ensure its crews continue carrying out their critical combat

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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 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

  • Moody assets relocate in preparation for Hurricane Michael

    In anticipation of Hurricane Michael, currently a Category 2 hurricane, Moody Air Force Base relocated some of its aircraft in preparation for the incoming storm.The current forecast anticipates that Moody and the surrounding areas will experience tropical-storm-force winds starting in the afternoon

  • 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

  • 347th Rescue Group initiates new medical, survival training

    Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape specialists and Independent Duty Medical Technicians recently partnered to innovate a more realistic training experience for 23d Wing aircrew.The training is designed to merge many smaller courses into one three-day course that seamlessly ties together