08.21.2023 Community Local 7th to 12th grade students join Rescue Wing’s inaugural STEM camp If you were at the 106th Rescue Wing in Westhampton Beach earlier this month, you’d have seen something unusual: students from grades 7 to 12 in gray T-shirts and...
05.25.2020 News Col. Shawn Fitzgerald of Cutchogue to become new commander of 106th Rescue Wing New York Air National Guard Col. Shawn Fitzgerald will become the next commander of the 106th Rescue Wing based in Westhampton Beach, the Air Force announced last week. Col....
06.11.2018 Community Family of fallen airman follows through on posthumous surprise As a surprise for when his son returned home from his final combat tour, John Raguso purchased a new outboard engine for his son’s EdgeWater boat.
07.17.2016 Community Twenty years later, remembering TWA Flight 800 A large flash of light filled the night sky south of East Moriches just after 8:30 p.m. on July 17, 1996. In seconds, 212 passengers and 18 crew members...
09.03.2015 News When the levees broke, the 106th came to the rescue As Hurricane Katrina pummeled the Gulf Coast in late August 2005, Chief Master Sgt. Michael Kurtz and fellow National Guardsmen in the 106th Air Rescue Wing waited for the...
11.08.2012 News Cutchogue airman awarded high honors When Air National Guard Tech. Sgt. Rudolf Lonk returned to his Cutchogue home this summer after a seven-month deployment in Afghanistan, he couldn’t believe how self-reliant his family had...
09.18.2012 News Photos: Pararescue teams compete in ‘rodeo’ on the Peconic The threat of high winds and rain didn’t stop the Air National Guard from hosting its rescue rodeo in the Peconic Bay Tuesday morning. Six U.S. pararescue teams, known...
09.18.2012 News Air National Guard ‘rodeo’ takes on Peconic Bay Tuesday Seven teams of Air National Guard rescue squad members will show off their considerable skills Tuesday during an unusual “rodeo” involving an unusual race of inflatable Zodiac boats from...
