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  • Team Moody develops future first sergeants via symposium

    The First Sergeant Council held the First Sergeant Symposium at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Oct. 28 to Nov. 1, 2024. As the principal advisor to the unit commander, a first sergeant ensures mission readiness while supporting Airmen’s personal and professional well-being. The bi-annual symposium

  • Team Moody conducts HH-60W sling load training

    The 347th Operations Support Squadron conducted sling load training with the HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopter at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Aug. 29, 2024. The 41st Rescue Squadron, 820th Base Defense Group, and 824th Base Defense Squadron worked together to relocate cargo from one austere

  • 20th Anniversary of Sky King Rescue

    On April 16, 2004, the 41st Rescue Squadron and Pararescuemen from the 38th Rescue Squadron fought bad weather and faced enemy surface-to-air threats to save the lives of five U.S. Army CH-47D Chinook aircrew who had crashed in a sandstorm on the desert plains of Iraq.

  • 41st RQS conducts Florida hospital patient transfer

    The rescue community lives by the motto ‘so that others may live’ … A code that ensures someone’s worst day isn’t their last. Showcasing their exceptional skill and readiness, the 41st Rescue Squadron and 38th Rescue Squadron conducted a critical patient transport to the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville

  • CSAR trains to safeguard evolving threats

    The 347th Rescue Group participated in readiness exercise Mosaic Tiger 24-1 from Nov. 13-17, 2023. The exercise was designed to hone the 23rd Wing’s ability to generate sorties while under simulated attack, which always has the potential for a downed aircraft and a hurt or captured pilot.

  • NDI detects near-invisible dangers

    Similar to how ultrasounds and x-rays are used to find issues in the body, these same techniques can be used to find surface and subsurface cracks along with abnormal wear and tear on aircraft that can be the difference between life and death. Maintainers from the 23rd Maintenance Squadron

  • Jolly Green II brings ACC’s CSAR mission into the future

    Air Combat Command’s newest Combat Search and Rescue helicopter, the HH-60W Jolly Green II, will be fully operational in fall of 2021 to replace its predecessor, the HH-60G Pave Hawk, to better serve the personnel recovery mission in the future fight.

  • Memorial service honors fallen Khobar Towers Airmen

    Members from the 71st Rescue Squadron, 38th RQS and 41st RQS from Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, came together at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida, to memorialize the 25th anniversary of the Khobar Towers bombing, hosted by the 920th Rescue Wing, June 25, 2021.

  • 9th AF/CC flies with 41st RQS

    U.S. Air Force Maj. Gen. Chad Franks, Ninth Air Force commander, dons a helmet in an HH-60G Pave Hawk before a flight at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., Aug. 8, 2019. It was Franks’ initial flight in the Ninth Air Force commander’s flagship aircraft, an HH-60G Pave Hawk assigned to the 41st Rescue

  • Rescue helicopter pilots showcase VR capability to ACC leadership

    Helicopter pilots and special mission aviators from the 41st Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, performed a demonstration of a virtual reality (VR) training system here for Air Combat Command leadership July 8, 2019, as part of a squadron-led innovation showcase.

  • AF helicopter ‘hard crew’ formula improves cohesion, mission

    In the realm of team sports where expectations and the stakes to win are high, teams rely on continuity and chemistry to maximize their effectiveness and propel them to the top. Utilizing a similar game plan, operating as a ‘hard crew’, a team of Moody’s HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter aircrew recently

  • Loved ones welcome back 41st RQS

    Team Moody and loved ones welcomed back members of the 41st Rescue Squadron and 41st Helicopter Maintenance Unit during a redeployment ceremony, July 10, 2018, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. While deployed, the 41st RQS and 41st HMU provided combat search and rescue capabilities and maintenance

  • Airmen partner toward quicker deployments

    Rescue Airmen from the 23d Wing visited the Devil Raiders of the 621st Contingency Response Wing (CRW), to better understand the essential assets to stand up rescue operations from bare-base situations.Although the 23d Wing’s mission to organize, train, equip and maintain combat-ready for Air Combat

  • Airmen prep HH-60G for training

    Airmen from the 41st Rescue Squadron and 723d Aircraft Maintenance Squadron conducted pre-flight checks to ensure that an HH-60G Pave Hawk was fully prepared for a simulated combat search and rescue mission, March 15, 2018, at Moody Air Force Base, Ga.

  • POL enables faster turnarounds, longer missions

    “With hot-pit refuels we’re prepositioned and they taxi to us and with the engines still running,” said Tech. Sgt. Zachary Beggin, 23d LRS NCO in charge of fuels distribution. “They hookup, refuel and their back up in the air and it decreases ground time by 66 percent.”Less ground time means more

  • Moody deploys skilled warriors

    Airmen assigned to the 38th and 41st Rescue Squadrons prepare for a deployment to Southeast Europe alongside an HH-60G Pave Hawk. The Airmen and the HH-60G will be transported on a C-17 Globmaster III to their final destination. All luggage and weapons were secured in the aircraft prior to the