79th RQS homecoming

Two U.S. Air Force HC-130J Combat King IIs, assigned to the 79th Rescue Squadron, landed on the flightline at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Oct. 8, 2022, after returning from an overseas deployment. The members with the 355th Wing and 563rd Rescue Group traveling on the HC-130s were greeted by their

Bear Down: DM, UofA Community Partnership Day

Senior Airman Alexander Mason, 355th Wing Civil Engineering Squadron explosive ordnance disposal technician takes part in an explosive ordnance disposal training demonstration held by the 355th Civil Engineering Squadron during the University of Arizona Community Partnership Day at Davis-Monthan Air

Opposing Forces at Red Flag-Rescue 22-2

Rescue Group Airmen help save hiker in Chiricahua National Monument

A joint rescue mission with the 563rd Rescue Group, the Arizona Cochise County Sheriff’s Office Search and Rescue Team and the Arizona Department of Public Safety saved an unconscious and severely hypothermic 57-year-old hiker at the Chiricahua National Monument in Wilcox, Arizona, Jan. 8, 2022.

DM held Combat Rescue Officer Phase II Screener

DM recently held the CRO Phase II Screener for the first time, October 2021, where 16 members from various Air Force career fields, both officers and enlisted, and cadets from multiple Reserve Officers’ Training Corps Detachments, the U.S. Air Force Academy and the U.S. Military Academy West Point.

Contested Coastal Rescue Training

The 48th and 55th Rescue Squadrons completed contested maritime training off the coast of California, Nov. 1-14, 2020.

563d RQG Airmen rescue injured Mexican fishermen

Airmen from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base’s 563d Rescue Group traveled more than 1700 miles, to save two critically injured Mexican fishermen onboard the Mazatun fishing vessel, July 10, 2019.The fishermen were injured when their vessel’s crane collapsed more than 1300 miles southwest of San Diego in

Reserve Rescue Airmen return to D-M from Africa

U.S. Air Force Reservists assigned to the 306th Rescue Squadron returned to from a four-month deployment to the Horn of Africa June 2.