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  • Key spouse supports community, family during tough times

    Wife, mother, pillar of support. One award-winning spouse at Travis Air Force Base has been building up her family and her community for the past few years and continues to lend her strength and optimism during the COVID-19 pandemic.

  • Team Pope welcomes new 43d AMOG commander

    The 43d Air Mobility Operations Group officially welcomed new commander, Col. Joseph “Jacko” M. Vanoni to Team Pope on June 15 during a virtual change of command ceremony.Maj. Gen. John R. Gordy, commander of the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., presided

  • CRW Airmen exercise, upgrade skills using COVID-19 scenario

    Members of the 621st Contingency Response Wing participated in a readiness exercise to demonstrate the capability to operate during COVID-19 conditions while also accomplishing upgrade training June 4-11 at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.

  • 821 CRG’s alert force prepped for contingencies, worldwide deployment

    Earthquakes. Hurricanes. Pandemics. Air base openings. Remote airfields.“This is what we prepare for,” said Capt. Sean Dronen, 921st Contingency Response Squadron assistant operations officer.More than 100 Airmen from the 821st Contingency Response Group at Travis Air Force Base, California, assumed

  • 43d AES inactivates from Pope after storied history

    Medical emergencies, natural disasters, transporting wounded patients from the battlefield. Nurses and medical technicians rapidly deploying within 24 hours to move patients, sick or wounded, from disaster sites to adequate medical facilities by aircraft. That is the mission of aeromedical

  • ASAM Class of 2020 Graduates

    Sixteen U.S. Air Force officers graduated from the Advanced Study of Air Mobility (ASAM) program June 5, 2020, at the U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center on Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey.

  • COVID-19 in Africa: Measuring success by lack of contingency response

    Personnel from the 621st Contingency Response Wing are capable of deploying in response to humanitarian crises or in preparation for large-scale operations all over the world. They are the force that sets the stage for a larger, sustainable U.S. military presence and very often are the conduit

  • CRW Airmen aid Reserve medics combatting COVID-19 hotspots

    Two Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing have been supporting the Department of Defense’s effort to combat COVID-19 since March 2020.Lt. Col. Curt Haase and Master Sgt. John Huck from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey, have been embedded with the 64th Air Expeditionary Group to

  • C2 Battle Management Operations specialists safeguard nation’s skies

    Command and Control Battle Management Systems are responsible for many functional areas and play an important role in Devil Raiders executing contingency operations. They include surveillance operations, radar control, air weapons monitoring, airlift planning and data management.

  • Contracting keeps CR mission going

    “I really have nothing to compare it to. This is unlike anything I’ve ever done before,” said Master Sgt. Ronald Abbate, from the 821st Contingency Response Support Squadron at Travis Air Force Base, California. “Some days, it’s one of the most frustrating jobs someone can have. But other times,