MOODY AIR FORCE BASE, Ga. –Approximately 45 members of the 71st Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base returned February 11 from a deployment.

The 71st Rescue Squadron maintains combat-ready status with 9 HC-130J aircraft. Provides rapidly deployable, expeditionary personnel recovery forces to theater commanders for contingency/crisis response operations worldwide. Specializes in the rescue of isolated personnel from austere, denied objectives using night vision goggle (NVG)/adverse weather low-level, airdrop, air land, helicopter air refueling (HAR), and forward area refueling point (FARP) operations.