Air Force Features

Sept. 15, 2023
AF Week in Photos

This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
June 16, 2023
AF Week in Photos

This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
April 28, 2023
AF Week in Photos

This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
Jan. 13, 2023
AF Week in Photos

This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
Sept. 30, 2022
AF Week in Photos

This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
June 10, 2022
AF Week in Photos

This week's photos feature Airmen from around the globe involved in activities supporting expeditionary operations and defending America. This weekly feature showcases the men and women of the Air Force.
June 3, 2022
Keeping our NATO allies strong: TACP specialists save Polish boy

TACP specialists from the 4th Expeditionary Air Support Operations Squadron saved the life of a Polish boy.
Feb. 20, 2022
AFR capabilities enable immediate ocean rescue

The Air Force Reserve Command’s 920th Rescue Wing conducted a multi-person medical airlift in support of a critically-injured person aboard a cruise ship 600 nautical miles off the coast of Florida.
Aug. 7, 2021
All hands on deck; Soldier rescued from Pacific Ocean

Rain is pouring down on and around the island of Guam after a monsoon hits early Sunday morning, July 26. For those in nearby waters, waves are crashing all around them. In the midst of all the commotion, a Soldier on a U.S. Army Watercraft System off the coast of Angaur, Palau, requires urgent
April 10, 2021
Airmen’s heroism, quick-thinking saves two lives from fatal vehicle accident

On March 23, what could have been a dire situation ended in the saving of two lives—thanks to the valor and heroism of two 88th Medical Group Airmen.
March 14, 2021
Alaska Air National Guard Airmen rescue Iditarod musher

Alaska Air National Guardsmen assigned to the 176th Wing rescued an injured Iditarod musher March 9 from the Rohn Roadhouse about 136 miles northwest of Anchorage.
Jan. 3, 2021
Newly-acquired AFRL test aircraft to aid personnel recovery research

The CubCrafters XCub aircraft was ferried from Yakima, Washington, to Lewis A. Jackson Regional Airport near Dayton, on its journey to the Air Force Research Laboratory 711th Human Performance Wing’s contracted research flight test organization facility, Dec. 21.
Sept. 9, 2020
Alaska Air National Guard rescues injured hunter on mountain

Alaska Air National Guardsmen of the 176th Wing rescued a hunter who was critically injured in a 100-foot fall Sept. 6 near the Eagle River Nature Center north of Anchorage.
Feb. 27, 2020
HH-60W ‘Jolly Green II’ follows footprints of rescue giants

Secretary of the Air Force Barbara M. Barrett revealed the name at the 2020 Air Force Association’s Air Warfare Symposium in Orlando, Feb. 27.
July 16, 2019
563d RQG Airmen rescue injured Mexican sailors

Airmen from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base’s 563rd Rescue Group traveled more than 1700 miles to save two critically injured Mexican fishermen onboard the Mazatun fishing vessel, July 10.

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