Story by Staff Sgt. Sean Madden | 106th Rescue Wing | 02.07.2024
The 101st Rescue Squadron, assigned to the 106th Rescue Wing of the New York Air National Guard, won the Top Squadron award at a competition for combat search and rescue also known as CSAR, at Avon Park Air Force Range, Florida, November 2023....
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 06.05.2020
WESTHAMPTON BEACH, NY (06/05/2020) (readMedia)-- New York Air National Guard Colonel Shawn Fitzgerald, a graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, and an Army combat veteran, took command of the 106th rescue wing this afternoon, Friday June 5, during a ceremony at F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base. Fitzgerald, a Cutchogue resident, replaced Col. Michael Bank who has led the wing......
Story by Staff Sgt. Shawn Morris | 99th Readiness Division | 06.05.2020
JOINT BASE MCGUIRE-DIX-LAKEHURST, N.J. – Sixteen cadets from the City University of New York’s Reserve Officers’ Training Corps became Army second lieutenants during a virtual commissioning ceremony June 5....
Story by Maj. Michael O'Hagan | New York National Guard | 05.14.2020
WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y.--WESTHAMPTON BEACH, N.Y. (05/14/2020) (readMedia)-- In order to be seen by more Long Island residents, the New York Air National Guard's 106th Rescue Wing has expanded the route of the Salute Long Island flyover it will conduct on Friday, May 15. A search and rescue plane and two rescue helicopters assigned to the New York Air National Guard's 106th Rescue Wing will......
Story by Maj. Anthony Clas | 3rd Armored Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division Public Affairs | 09.20.2019
EL PASO, Texas – A single rose in the vase symbolizing the blood that service members have shed in sacrifice to ensure the freedom of the United States of America.…...
Story by Chief Warrant Officer Allyson Conroy | U.S. Coast Guard District 1 PADET New York | 05.17.2019
The Unified Command consisting of U.S. Coast Guard and New York State Department of Environmental Conservation has contracted Resolve Marine Group to conduct oil removal operations on the wreck of the tanker Coimbra 30 miles off the coast of Shinnecock, New York. The motor vessel Coimbra is a 422 foot tanker, built in 1937 that departed New York unescorted, met U-123 on Jan. 15, 1942, and was......
Story by Lin Miller | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers North Atlantic Division | 10.29.2018
At the same time the North Atlantic Division (NAD) has supported U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) response and recovery efforts following recent major storm events elsewhere in the United States, it has remained intensely focused on Superstorm Sandy repair, restoration and risk-reduction projects in the northeast six years since that major weather event....
Story by Eric Durr | New York National Guard | 04.06.2018
YPAHANK, N.Y.--The move from Camp Upton, Long Island to France was supposed to be secret, but when the U.S. Army’s 77th Division left in March and April 1918, everybody in New York City-- the hometown for most of the 23,000 men-- seemed to know about it. “Although the troops invariably left camp at night or very early in the morning, the racket the men made was quite indicative that a......
