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  • 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

  • USAF CMSgt retires after 30-year career

    I originally joined with plans to do four years, get my education and either commission or leave the military for work in the private sector. Here I am, 30 years later, retired from the Air Force and wondering how I stayed in all these years. Easy, I have loved every stage of my career and feel

  • 621 CRW supports AGF 23-1; 366 FW Lead Wing certification

    The deafening sound of jet engines running hung heavy in the hot and humid air. This is where Contingency Response Airmen worked, each layered with armored helmets, bulletproof vests, fire-retardant uniforms and slung M-4 carbines across their chests. Attentive eyes scanned each operating location