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Alaska Air National Guard Rescues Four in Separate Missions
April 11, 2025
Alaska Air National Guard saves 4 during 4 missions
North Dakota Guardsman Rescues Woman from Sinking Car
August 1, 2024
U.S. Army 2nd Lt. David Hooge, 231st Quartermaster Platoon commander, North Dakota National Guard
New Hampshire Guard Crew Rescues Three from Vermont Flooding
July 14, 2023
One of three people are rescued from their residence by a NHARNG Black Hawk crew July 11 in Berlin, Vermont.
California Guard Conducts Rescue Mission off the Coast of Costa Rica
July 14, 2023
U.S. Air Force pararescuemen with the 131st Rescue Squadron, 129th Rescue Wing, California Air National Guard transfer a patient by hoist down to a Costa Rican Coast Guard vessel, July 11, 2023.
Vermont Guard and Rescue Teams Assist in Flood Response Efforts
July 12, 2023
The Vermont National Guard Soldiers' quick reaction force worked with North Carolina and Massachusetts urban search and rescue teams to rescue and relocate 27 people and their pets in Cambridge.
Tennessee National Guard Rescues Injured Hunter
May 5, 2023
A Tennessee Army National Guard Black Hhawk helicopter locates a distressed hunter in the Cherokee National Forest on May 4.
Alaska National Guard rescues five people in three missions
August 17, 2022
An airborne 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60G Pave Hawk conducts rescue operations March 5, 2022, at the Lake Iliamna crash site of a Cessna 206. The scope of the rescue effort was illustrated by an Alaska State Trooper R-44 helicopter.
California Air National Guard Rescues Injured Sailboat Racer
August 9, 2022
A helicopter from the 129th Rescue Wing hoists a man from a tanker ship 343 nautical miles west of San Francisco, Aug. 7.
Alaska Army Guard aviation recognized for ‘Rescue of Year’
February 18, 2022
Alaska Army National Guard Chief Warrant Officer 2 Bradley Jorgensen, Sgt. 1st Class Damion Minchaca, Capt. Cody McKinney, and Staff Sgt. Sonny Cooper, all members of Golf Company, 2-211th General Support Aviation Battalion, in front of an HH-60M Black Hawk helicopter at Bryant Army Airfield on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Feb. 17, 2022. The crew received the DUSTOFF Association 2021 Rescue of the Year award for their efforts in a rescue completed Sept. 15, 2021.
Alaska Airmen rescue pregnant woman in distress
December 28, 2021
An Alaska Air National Guard 210th Rescue Squadron HH-60G Pave Hawk transits Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson's Malamute Drop Zone Feb. 10, 2021, during parachute jump operations. The jump preceded the change-of-command ceremony for 212th Rescue Squadron. (U.S. Air National Guard photo by David Bedard/Released)
Massachusetts Guard Soldier saves woman from car fire
December 6, 2021
Spc. Ryan Leger, the 110th Maintenance Company, Massachusetts National Guard generator mechanic, saves women from car fire at the North Dike Wachusett Reservoir in Sterling, Mass., Nov. 7, 2021.
Musher thanks Arctic Guardians for Iditarod rescue
July 1, 2021
Alaska Air National Guardsmen of 210th Rescue Squadron, Tech. Sgt. Anthony Guedea (left) and Lt. Col. Michael Jordan meet with Iditarod musher Aliy Zirkle June 28, 2021, at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. Guedea and Jordan were part of the team that rescued Zirkle March 9 at the Iditarod Rohn checkpoint after she suffered a head injury.
Alaska National Guard rescues stranded mountaineers
June 2, 2021
Pararescue personnel with the Alaska Air National Guard’s 210th Rescue Squadron used an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter like this one in the search for 12 mountaineers stranded in poor weather on Klutlan Glacier southeast of Mt. Bona in Wrangell-St Elias National Park. The mountaineers were rescued June 1 after the 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, dispatched an Alaska Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook with a paramedic from the 2nd Battalion, 211 Aviation Regiment.
Alaska Air National Guard rescue injured snow machiner
May 24, 2021
An HH-60G Pave Hawk from the 41st Rescue Squadron flies through the air during a rapid-rescue exercise, Nov. 3, 2016, near Tyndall Air Force Base, Fla.
Tennessee National Guard aircrew rescues stranded hiker
May 12, 2021
Tennessee National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Tracy Banta begins hoist operations, descending from a Black Hawk helicopter to a stroke victim who was hiking on the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park April 15, 2021. The patient was flown to a hospital in Knoxville.
Alaska Army National Guard rescues four stranded boaters
May 11, 2021
Sgt. Rosalind Stromberg, a crew chief from 1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment, Alaska Army National Guard, looks over the Kuskokwim River from the door of a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter during a rescue mission May 10, 2021. The helicopter aircrew rescued four people and their dog from their boat on the river after they became stuck between Bethel and Kwethluk because of ice.
Alaska Army National Guard rescues two near Knik Glacier
May 11, 2021
Task Force Phoenix UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from G Company, 1st Battalion, 168th Aviation Regiment (General Support Aviation Battalion), land at North Fort Hood, Texas, April 17, 2021, during a medevac training mission that was part of a culminating training exercise.
Tennessee National Guard aircrew rescues stroke victim
April 16, 2021
Tennessee National Guard Sgt. 1st Class Tracy Banta begins hoist operations, descending from a Black Hawk helicopter to a stroke victim who was hiking on the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park April 15, 2021. The patient was flown to a hospital in Knoxville.
Tennessee National Guard aircrew rescues injured hiker
October 29, 2020
A UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter from the Tennessee National Guard’s Detachment 1, Company C, 1-171st Aviation Regiment, prepares to depart from Joint Base McGhee-Tyson in Knoxville at approximately 2:15 a.m. Oct. 28, 2020, en route to rescue an injured hiker on a mountain in North Carolina.
Alaska Army Guard aviator conducts first real-world rescue
October 1, 2020
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Paul Gillquist, an Alaska Army National Guard pilot assigned to the 207th Aviation Regiment, in front of UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, Aug. 22, 2020, at the Bryant Army Airfield on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson. Gillquist’s call sign is "Icy 13," and he happened to perform his first real-world rescue mission on Sept. 13, 2020.