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Air Guard unite to save 19 during hurricane relief ops

NAVAL AIR STATION OCEANA, Virginia – Air National Guardsmen from across the nation united to provide assistance and rescue isolated flood survivors in North Carolina, Sept. 17, in response to extreme flooding from the wake of Hurricane Florence battering North and South Carolina. The task force of 181 Guardsmen from Alaska, California, Kentucky, New York, …

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New York, California, and Alaska Air Guard Airmen team up to rescue North Carolina residents

LUMBERTON, North Carolina-The initial call from the local emergency operations center was that there were “ten plus one” people cut off at a farm by flood waters who needed to be evacuated on Monday, Sept. 17. By the time the Pararescue Airmen from New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing and the Alaska Air …

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