The Joint Staff recently approved the Humanitarian Service Medal for the DoD’s response to a trifecta of devastating Hurricanes in 2017. From August through October, Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria ripped through the Caribbean and southern United States. The U.S. military’s response was substantial, including multiple Air Force Pararescue teams. Other Air Force and U.S. […]
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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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
WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y.–The New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing is deploying over 80 personnel, an HC-130 search and rescue aircraft, four zodiac boats, and one HH-60 Pave Hawk rescue helicopter as part of the nation’s Hurricane Florence response. Based at F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base at the eastern tip of Long Island,
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