Holloman officials host joint-service aircraft for testing

A CH-46E Sea Knight dispenses infrared countermeasures during a multiplatform countermeasure effective test conducted by the Army, Navy and Marine Corps at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. All aircraft used were hosted at Holloman Air Force Base, N.M, including the UH-1Y Venom, CH-53E Super Stallion, MV-22 Osprey, CH-47 Chinook, UH-60 Black Hawk and AH-64 Apache. More than 1,500 infrared countermeasures were dispensed from the aircraft under various test conditions, providing valuable information to be used in theater. (U.S. Marine Corps photo)

Flying a hawk home

An HH-60G Pave Hawk, secure on the C-17 Globemaster III, waits to take off Sept. 9, 2009, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The C-17 is transporting the helicopter back to home station for redeployment. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Felicia Juenke)

Flying a hawk home

Senior Airman Anthony Boone secures the tail rotors of the HH-60G Pave Hawk to ensure the aircraft doesn't get damaged in transit Sept. 9, 2009, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. The helicopter is being transported on a C-17 Globemaster III back to its home station. Airman Boone is a helicopter crew chief from the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, and a native of Newport News, Va. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Felicia Juenke)

Flying a hawk home

Staff Sgt. Elias Carlon uses heavy duty harnesses to ensure a HH-60G Pave Hawk doesn't get damaged in transit aboard a C-17 Globemaster III Sept. 9, 2009, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Sergeant Carlon is an electronic warfare technician from the 455th Expeditionary Aircraft Maintenance Squadron, and is deployed from Royal Air Force Lakenheath, England. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Felicia Juenke)

33rd Rescue Squadron wins 2009 Air Force's Verne Orr Award

A 33rd Rescue Squadron aircrew on an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter from Kadena Air Base, Japan, took part in a refueling operation exercise with the Navy on the USS John S. McCain practicing take off and landing from the vessel's flight deck while the ship was underway March 4 off the coast of Japan. (Courtesy photo)

33rd Rescue Squadron wins 2009 Air Force's Verne Orr Award

Pararescuemen assigned to the 31st Rescue Squadron at Kadena Air Base, Japan, fast rope from an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter during exercise Cope Angel 09-1 in Japan. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Chad Warren)