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By Andre Trinidad, 943rd Rescue Group / Published May 18, 2021
An HH-60 Pave Hawk takes off form a temporary Forward Operating Base as part of Exercise Northern Assessment. Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 943rd Rescue Group successfully completed training scenarios that incorporated highly mobile, temporary facilities in remote, austere locations while still performing combat search and rescue operations from 30 April through 3 May. Exercise Northern Assessment was safely conducted using current CDC protocols and all service members were fully vaccinated. (U.S. Air Force photo by Andre Trinidad)
920th Rescue Wing Commander and 943rd Rescue Group Commanders observe Exercise Northern Assessment activities from an HH-60 Pave Hawk. Reserve Citizen Airmen from the 943rd Rescue Group successfully completed training scenarios that incorporated highly mobile, temporary facilities in remote, austere locations while still performing combat search and rescue operations fro
Border deployment the latest in National Guardâs âroller coasterâ year
An Arizona National Guardsman direct visitors to the check-in at a COVID-19 testing site in Tonalea on the Navajo Nation in May, early in the pandemic fight. (Photo by Tech. Sgt. Michael Matkin/Air National Guard)
WASHINGTON â When Gov. Doug Ducey sent hundreds of National Guard members to help at the border last week, the move may have been unexpected â but it was not unusual for the troops that have spent a year shuttling from one crisis to another.
From stocking pandemic-depleted grocery shelves to fighting wildfires, from setting up vaccination sites to providing support in cities hit by civil unrest, the nearly 8,300 members of the Arizona National Guard have been constantly pulled in different directions.
Arizona PBS
April 27, 2021
WASHINGTON – When Gov. Doug Ducey sent hundreds of National Guard members to help at the border last week, the move may have been unexpected – but it was not unusual for the troops that have spent a year shuttling from one crisis to another.
From stocking pandemic-depleted grocery shelves to fighting wildfires, from setting up vaccination sites to providing support in cities hit by civil unrest, the nearly 8,300 members of the Arizona National Guard have been constantly pulled in different directions.
“I haven’t been bored one day since we started this,” said Col. Tom Leeper, who was charged with running the Arizona National Guard’s Task Force Medical last year.
Arizona Congressional Aide Found Dead on Steep Death Valley Ledge
An Arizona congressional aide has been found dead days after he and his girlfriend went missing while on a camping trip in Death Valley, officials have confirmed.
Alexander Lofgren, 32, an aide to Rep. Raul M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.), was pronounced dead and his girlfriend Emily Henkel, 27, was airlifted to a hospital on Thursday for medical treatment. The couple were found on a “very steep ledge” in a remote area of Death Valley National Park near Willlow Creek, the Inyo County Sheriff’s Office said in a release.
Inyo County search and rescue team members located the pair on Wednesday via aerial reconnaissance, and after a failed hoist operation due to the “extreme location,” were able to reach them at around 11:40 a.m. local time Thursday.