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  • 821st CRSS stands ready to work at all hours

    The men and women of the 821st Contingency Response Support Squadron, or CRSS, stand ready 24/7/365, on a 12-hour deployment notice, to support Air Mobility Command, the Air Force and United States Transportation Command with highly qualified and versatile contingency response Airmen.  As one of

  • Airman spends life building planes

    When someone explains their love for aircraft, you expect to hear stories of their first experience of an F-22 Raptor roaring down the runway or an A-10 Thunderbolt screeching through the sky, not an F-4 Phantom soaring through the air with a tight grasp of the hand and the smacking of the lips to

  • Devil Raiders assist Soldiers returning from 9 month deployment

    Airmen assigned to the 921st Contingency Response Squadron assist Soldiers assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 4th Aviation Regiment, offload UH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from a C-5 Galaxy at the Fort Carson Air Terminal, Colorado, Sept. 11, 2016. The Soldiers returned from a nine month deployment to

  • Aerial porters set airlift record

    The 721st Aerial Port Squadron, which is part of the 521st Air Mobility Operations Wing at Ramstein Air Base, Germany, set a record July 27 for the heaviest cargo loaded onto a commercial aircraft in support of a channel mission. The aerial porters planned and packed 120 tons construction material

  • CRW, RAF exchange CR knowledge

    The intensity of the music was matched by the images in a video that was on display in the conference room of a squared windowless building that is the headquarters for the 621st Contingency Response Wing.At the conclusion of the three-minute 621st CRW mission video shown to the members of the

  • En route unit guides transient aircraft on joint missions

    Any aircraft that flies into Pope Army Airfield, Col. Kelly Holbert will know about it. But Holbert’s unit, the 43rd Air Mobility Operations Group, has no aircraft of its own. As the only en route operations group in the continental U.S., the unit manages transient aircraft and the joint missions

  • Travis Airman continues family tradition

    Growing up as a child, one Airman from the 349th Aerospace Medicine Squadron, watched her father as he prepared his Air Force flight suit and luggage for a trip, and knew he was going somewhere important to make a difference. She wanted to ensure she did the same one day.Senior Airman Heather

  • Devil Raiders support Exercise Northern Strike

    Airmen from the 821st Contingency Response Group here participated in Exercise Northern Strike Aug. 7-20, 2016, at Grayling Army Airfield and Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center in Michigan.