[MilCom] Air Force Hurrican Relief Support

[Ken]

PRESS RELEASE -- Secretary of the Air Force, Office of Public Affairs

Release No. 060805
August 31, 2005

Air Force supports FEMA; helps Hurricane Katrina victims



WASHINGTON - Units and people from across the Air Force are supporting
the Federal Emergency Management Agency and helping victims of Hurricane
Katrina from Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama.
Helicopters from the 920th Rescue Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Fla.,
flew to Jackson Miss., Aug. 30 carrying Federal Emergency Management
Agency assessment teams to areas affected by the hurricane.
A C-130J transport aircraft from the 403rd Wing at Keesler AFB, Miss.,
flying out of Asheville, N.C., returned home to the base delivering
supplies to the base hospital.
The 908th Airlift Wing at Maxwell AFB, Ala., geared up two C-130s,
aircrews and aeromedical evacuation people to help move people.
A C-5 Galaxy from the 60th Air Mobility Wing, Travis AFB Calif. and a
C-17 Globe Master III from the 305th AMW, McGuire AFB, NJ transported
tanker airlift control elements and contingency support groups to
Gulfport and New Orleans International Airports respectively. Another
C-5 from Travis helped search and rescue teams from California get to
the affected area.
Fifteen HH-60s helicopters and crews from the 347th Rescue Wing at Moody
AFB, Ga., and the 16th Special Operations Wing at Hurlburt Field., Fla
have been positioned near the affected area in Jackson, Miss., and crews
were credited with saving stranded survivors of the hurricane.
Additionally, Critical Care Air Transport teams and an obstetrics team
from Wilford Hall Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, helped patients
and expectant mothers evacuate Keesler AFB, Miss., on Tuesday. The
patients and pregnant women were evacuated to Wilford Hall. 
For more information, contact the Secretary of the Air Force Public
Affairs office at (703)-695-0640.