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  • CRW makes history at Combined, Joint TD exercise

    The 621st Contingency Response Wing participated in an exercise making history in what will go down as a first for the CRW.Approximately 60 Airmen from the 621st CRW stationed at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, along with approximately 30 U.S. Army Soldiers assigned to the 689th Rapid

  • Airmen celebrate heritage during 321 Day

    Airmen from the 321st Contingency Response Squadron got together to celebrate 321st Day. More than 100 Airmen and their families attended 321 Day March 21, here, as a chance for Airmen from the squadron to build unit cohesion. “It’s our inauguration day,” said Lt. Col. Michael Durband, 321st CRS

  • AMLO key to ARMY, JTF-PO during WAREX

    As an Army platoon leader kneeled in an open airfield, he quietly held his fist up in the air and looked back at his team. He held his fist a little higher. Then he held it as high as he could.As he grew frustrated that one of his team members was not following his orders, he yelled, “Don’t you know

  • CRW, MDL air power combined at Crisis Response 17

    In a small building on the Combat Readiness Training Center here, leaders from across the 305th Air Mobility Wing, 87th Air Base Wing, 621st Contingency Response Wing and 514th Air Mobility work around the clock.   For the past six months, their job has been to work closely with the Joint Base MDL

  • Devil Raiders return from deployment supporting OIR

    Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing prepare to deboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 Globemaster III at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., upon completing a four-month deployment in support of Operation Inherent Resolve, March 6, 2017. The 621st CRW—America’s only CRW—is a unique,

  • Devil Raiders test their rapid global mobility skills during Dragons Breath

    Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing exercised their ability to execute and sustain rapid global mobility to deliver humanitarian aid due to a simulated natural disaster throughout the state of Washington during exercise Dragons Breath Jan. 22-27. The 821st Contingency Response Squadron

  • 621 CRW returns from three month Iraq deployment

    Welcome home signs along with family and friends, filled the room to greet Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing as they returned here, after a three-month deployment to Iraq.The 621st CRW Airmen operated out of Qayyarah West Airfield, Iraq, where they enabled and sustained air operations

  • CRW maintainers put deice training to use during RAAW

    Thirteen maintainers from the 821st Contingency Response Group traveled to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, where they took part in a week long deicing course, in preparation for the Army’s Rapid Alaska Airlift Week exercise Dec. 10-16. The students trained using a simulator that resembled a video

  • 621st CRW supports Army's RAAW exercise

    Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing worked with Soldiers from Fort Wainwright, Alaska, to load 10 AH-64 Apache helicopters and two Stryker armored vehicles in extreme cold weather during the Rapid Alaska Airlift Week exercise Dec. 10-16.

  • 821st CRS Airman trains to be counter sniper

    Airman 1st Class Ryan McCarthy, 821st Contingency Response Squadron defender, recently graduated from the Close Precision Engagement Course at Fort Bliss, Texas, Nov. 4.The 19-day course teaches advanced marksmanship and military scouting skills to Air Force security forces members, whose career