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  • DM awards 2 Rescue Airmen the Bronze Star Medal

    “When someone needs protecting, or alone out there beyond enemy lines, that person has nothing to worry about,” said U.S. Air Force Col. Scott Mills, 355th Wing commander. “Because Rescue is going to bring that person home.”

  • Rescue Airmen save Arizona woman who fell 200 ft into mineshaft

    Nearly three-hundred miles away, a woman was trapped at the bottom of a mineshaft. Out of three possible rescue units, the Air Force Rescue Coordination Cell selected the 563rd Rescue Group at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, in Tucson, Arizona, for this rescue mission.

  • Getting to know the 79th Rescue Squadron

    “The mission of the 79th RQS is to provide worldwide personnel recovery support anywhere, anytime,” said Lt. Col. Kyle Porter, 79th RQS commander. “We focus on getting our people out to different parts of the world to participate in practice exercises and make sure that, if we are needed, we are

  • RED FLAG-Rescue 23-1: mass casualty event

    U.S. Air Force Airmen from across the country, as well as Marines, Soldiers and Sailors worked together during a simulated mass casualty event and built joint force relationships during RED FLAG-Rescue 23-1, May 10, 2023.

  • RED FLAG-Rescue 23-1: CSAR Photos

    U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen extract and treat a simulated downed pilot in a combat search and rescue exercise as a part of RED FLAG-Rescue 23-1.

  • Red Flag 23-1: rescue edition

    An HH-60G Pave Hawk assigned to the 55th Rescue Squadron, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, hovers over the Nevada Test and Training Range during a Red Flag-Nellis combat search and rescue mission Feb. 9, 2023. The Nevada Test and Training Range is the U.S. Air Force’s Premier military training

  • Up, up and away!

    U.S. Air Force aircrews assigned to the 55th Rescue Squadron and maintainers assigned to the 55th Rescue Generation Squadron complete routine training at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, Jan. 5, 2023. The 55th RQS continuously executes their mission by flying training sorties and performing

  • 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