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  • 621 CRW Airmen help support weapon school

    More than 60 Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing got a chance to hone their skills and help train Weapons School students at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., Dec. 2, 2012.The 621st CRW from Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J., helped support the Mission Employment Exercise 12B of weapon

  • Joint base, EC Airmen combine efforts to repair storm-damaged comms

    Airmen from the 87th Communications Squadron teamed up with U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center technicians here Wednesday to bring phone services back online after an electrical surge during Hurricane Sandy destroyed the center's phone switch. The surge caused more than $1.5 million in damage and

  • Hurricane Sandy knocks EC down, not out

    The U.S. Air Force Expeditionary Center was prepared for Hurricane Sandy when the super storm made landfall on Oct. 29 in southern New Jersey. What the organization was not expecting was the level of damage the storm caused to the building or the impact the damages would have on courses and programs

  • From coast to coast, the Contingency Response Wing answers Sandy's call

    The mobility Airmen in the 621st Contingency Response Wing are no strangers to the chaos of a disaster area, nor the destruction of a flood; it is the siren song of their role as Air Mobility Command's 9-1-1 force.But when Hurricane Sandy came to the New Jersey Shore Oct. 29, it brought that peril

  • 621st CRW supports AZANG with Hurricane Sandy relief efforts

    The 621st Contingency Response Wing (CRW) sent a Contingency Response Element (CRE) to work closely with Arizona Air National Guard's 161st Air Refueling Wing to support them in their efforts to help restore power to the East Coast since Nov. 2.The CRE from Travis Air Force Base, Calif., helped

  • Air mobility response team deploys to maintain alert capability during storm

    A rapid-response team of U.S. Air Force air mobility specialists here are repositioning ahead of the landfall of Hurricane Sandy. Airmen from the 621st Contingency Response Wing moved alert equipment and approximately 65 personnel to MacDill Air Force Base near Tampa, Fla. early today to maintain

  • CRW hones skills during Soaring Angel

    When the call comes for support, the men and women of the 621st Contingency Response Wing continue to respond effectively to crises in some of the most remote and austere areas of the globe. But what if that call is a request to open up a forward-operating base in the Middle East to assist follow-on

  • Travis AFB holds Viking Challenge 2012

    Even though the top two teams finished tied for the number of miles run - 115 miles each, the 60th Maintenance Squadron no. 2 team claimed first place by being less than a quarter mile ahead of 570th Global Mobility Squadron as the second place team. The 60th Logistic Readiness Squadron #2 team