Members of the California Air National Guard’s 129th Rescue Wing at Moffett Federal Airfield last week rescued two fishermen requiring medical attention aboard an Ecuadorian vessel located about 1,400 miles off the coast of Acapulco, Mexico. “This mission demonstrates the adaptability of the Air National Guard to fight wildfires in California one moment, and then save the lives of civilians in the Pacific the next,” said Col. Steven Butow, 129th RQW commander, in the wing’s release. Two of the wing’s HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters, escorted by an MC-130P refueler, departed Moffett on Sept. 3 to insert several pararescuemen aboard the fishing boat. The PJs attended to the fishermen and helped extract them on the following day to the Coast Guard cutter Morgentha, which was steaming towards the Mexican coast. The HH-60s returned on Sept. 5 with a pair of MC-130s to extract the patients and PJs from the cutter for transport to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, where the fisherman received further medical treatment in a hospital, states the release.
JADC2 Spurring Changes to Fighter Jets, Ops Centers
Dec. 2, 2020
Aerospace experts offered a peek into how joint all-domain command and control might begin changing the Air Force over the next few years, during RAND Corp.’s West Coast Aerospace Forum on Dec. 2. Expect the upcoming fiscal 2022 and 2023 budgets to majorly accelerate combat networking demonstrations and related technology…