03.23.2018 Community Riverhead native earns posthumous promotion; funeral arrangements set Dashan Briggs, the Riverhead native who died last week in a helicopter crash in Iraq, earned a posthumous promotion to the rank of technical sergeant, according to the New...
03.22.2018 Community Friends, family remember Staff Sgt. Dashan Briggs From an early age, Dashan Briggs accepted the fact that anything he wanted in life had to be earned. Instilled with a strong work ethic by his grandfather, Eli...
03.22.2018 Columns Column: A ‘great one’ in Riverhead gone too soon To celebrate his 30th birthday, Dashan Briggs and his wife, Rebecca, planned a trip to Mohegan Sun in Connecticut. The couple share the same birthday: Dec. 28.
03.20.2018 Community GoFundMe started for family of Riverhead native who died in Iraq crash As the family of Riverhead native Dashan Briggs makes his funeral arrangements, community members are looking for ways to help his widow and their young children.
03.17.2018 News Four 106th Rescue Wing airmen killed in Iraq officially identified The Department of Defense released the names Saturday evening of the four New York Air National Guard members assigned to the 106th Rescue Wing in Westhampton Beach who were...
03.16.2018 News Riverhead native Dashan Briggs killed in Iraq helicopter crash A Riverhead native was among the seven service members killed aboard a military helicopter in Iraq Thursday, a family member confirmed to the News-Review.
04.25.2017 Health PBMC donates medical supplies to assist in ship explosion rescue effort The Westhampton Air National Guard responded to a deadly ship explosion off the coast of Cape Cod Monday armed with medical supplies donated by Peconic Bay Medical Center in...
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...