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June 20, 2023
Loadmaster Makes History at 106th Rescue Wing

For the first time at the 106th Rescue Wing, a loadmaster was presented the prestigious Air National Guard 2022 Henry "Red" Erwin Outstanding NCO Aircrew Member of the Year Award in Westhampton Beach, N.Y., May 6, 2023.
May 25, 2023
Green Berets aboard Jolly Greens for Training with 106th Rescue Wing

Rescue aircraft circled overhead and Green Berets dropped in to recover a simulated friendly casualty when the New York Air National Guard conducted a joint combat rescue exercise with Army National Guard Special Forces personnel, to strengthen their one-team, one-fight capabilities at Warren Grove
May 12, 2023
Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs visits the 106th Rescue Wing

Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, Alex Wagner, visited the 106th Rescue Wing to get a closer look at how the New York Air Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing operates during a May 11 visit to the F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton Beach, New York.
April 30, 2023
106th Rescue Wing Medics Partner with Good Samaritan University Hospital

Members of the 106th Medical Group of the 106th Rescue Wing based at F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base, partnered with Good Samaritan University Hospital in West Islip, N.Y., for two weeks of training from April 10 to April 24.
Feb. 8, 2023
106th Rescue Wing Conducts Training with Marine Corps Reserve Helicopter Crews

Airmen of the 101st Rescue Squadron from the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing teamed up with Marine Corp Reserve aviators for a tactical refueling and personnel recovering training exercise at F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base on February 2, 2023.
Nov. 10, 2022
Lift Off! 106th Takes Community Engagement to New Heights!

F.S. GABRESKI AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, N.Y.– Sixteen guidance counselors and officials from Long Island schools got a chance to get up close and personal with the people and mission of the 106th Rescue Wing during an HH-60 Pave Hawk flight at F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton
Sept. 22, 2022
Two 106th Rescue Wing Airmen Played a Role in Thai Cave Rescue

Wearing shorts and a t-shirt, with stubble on his chin, Tech. Sgt. Jamie Brisbin, a pararescueman now assigned to the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing, remembers arriving in Okinawa, Japan and boarding a waiting C-130 to head to a flooded cave in Thailand on June 27, 2018.As depicted
June 24, 2022
NY Air Guardsmen Recognized for Dramatic Rescue Mission

On April 24, 2017, seven Airmen from the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing jumped into the night sky over the Atlantic, 1,700 miles from Long Island.
June 6, 2022
NY Air Guard's 106th Rescue Wing conducts mid-ocean medical supply drop

An aircrew from New York Air Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing flew an HC-130J 1,200 miles east into the North Atlantic on Friday, May 20, found a 32-foot-long sailboat heading toward the Azores, and dropped vitally needed medical supplies to the three-person crew.
June 6, 2022
New York Air Guard 106th HVAC Engineers use skills to save the day

FRANCIS S. GABRESKI AIR NATIONAL GUARD BASE, New York – The New York Air National Guard 106th Rescue Wing Services kitchen operations were halted due to a broken water heater during the March drill here, March 5, 2022, until the 106th Civil Engineers came to the rescue and replaced the water heater

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