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.
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...
03.20.2018 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.
07.17.2016 News 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...
