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  • Joint Forces collaborate in heavy-lift operation

    JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. — A joint effort among the Pennsylvania Army National Guard, the Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 772, and the U.S. Air Force’s 621st Contingency Response Group, resulted in a successful heavy-lift operation at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania, Jan. 22, 2025.

  • A look back at my time in the CR

    I have a storied history with the 621st Contingency Response Wing and I am very grateful to tell it. Joining this mobility unit as a young Airman in late fall of 1994, I didn’t know what to expect since I wasn’t going to be on the flightline everyday loading cargo planes which was what I was trained

  • Bringing order to chaos for nearly 30 years

    We are CR! To be CR, or contingency response, has always been nebulous. With nearly 30 years in and around this organization, in unform and as a civilian, I have seen the struggle of defining what we do.

  • 821st CRG participate in first-ever CR-led LZ Survey Course

    Whether it is unprepared, semi-prepared, or paved (prepared), a landing zone survey must be conducted to evaluate the risk of safely using any landing surface for military air-land operations.To conduct an LZ survey, 621st Contingency Response Wing LZ surveyors had to attend a course offered by

  • Showing gratitude by “passing the paper”

    Members of the 321st Air Mobility Operation Squadron begun the year with positivity, circulating sheets of paper around the office. Each piece of paper has the name of a squadron member on top. As the paper gets passed around, Masterminds write a positive memory, affirmation, thought or observation.