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  • CRT Chief: The Quarterback to Mission Success

    For the National Football League, teams are required to have a handful of captains before the start of the season and these team leaders are elected by their peers to ensure their teammates’ jobs are performed at the highest level and that there is accountability during a long, tough football

  • 621st CRW shows off mobility expertise during DLE

    Beginning July 4, more than 185 members with the 621st Contingency Response Wing deployed across the United States and U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s area of responsibility to generate support for the 2025 Department of the Air Force’s “first-in-a-generation” Department-Level Exercise (DLE)

  • Celebrating AMOS 50 years, 35-year AMOS veteran

    Master Sgt. Gene Havens arrived at Travis Air Force Base back in September 1989. He remembers because he took his family to see a Giants baseball game in San Francisco right before the famous earthquake that year.A combat controller by trade, medical issues took him out of the field and put him in

  • 921st CRS Dragons ‘bring the heat’ at Exercise DRAGON SPARK

    More than 100 Airmen from the 921st Contingency Response Squadron exercised their expeditionary skills at Amedee Army Airfield in Herlong, California, April 7-17. Throughout the 10 days, Airmen were pushed to their full professional capabilities by holding rotational 24-hour security, sleeping in

  • SIF Marketplace, Forum: A new way to fund squadron innovation

    The U.S. Air Force has launched the Squadron Innovation Fund (SIF) Marketplace, a new initiation aimed at revolutionizing how innovation is funded and fostered across the service. Historically, higher command levels directly distributed Squadron Innovation Funds to the squadrons because a

  • Five 921st CRS Airmen rescue couple after car accident

    On a low visibility night, Staff Sgt. Quilin Kirkpatrick and his team pull up to a “T” intersection behind a Subaru Outlander. The driver of the Subaru Outlander takes a right-handed turn too sharply and drives accidentally four-to-five feet into a drainage ditch, flipping his vehicle over. Senior

  • 621st CRW aides in SAR mission, saves one life on cruise ship

    When the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center alert phones ring, it is never about good news. On an Ovation of the Seas cruise liner, 800 nautical miles from the coast of San Francisco, a 64-year-old man suffered a heart attack.This prompted the AFRCC to reach out to the California Air National