Services For 4 Military Heroes Killed In Crash - Riverhead, NY - The lives of 4 heroes from the NY Air National Guard's 106th Rescue Wing in Westhampton are celebrated as they are laid to rest.
LATHAM, N.Y. -- Four New York Air National Guard members assigned to the 106th Rescue Wing, stationed at F.S. Gabreski Air National Guard Base in Westhampton Beach, died in Iraq on March 15, the Department of Defense announced. Sergeant Briggs, 30, of the New York Air National Guard 106th Rescue Wing, was one of seven service members killed when a United States military … WESTHAMPTON BEACH - It was a solemn and somber homecoming Tuesday as the bodies of three of the 106th Rescue Wing airmen who were killed in a helicopter crash … Forty years later, current and former members of the New York Air National Guard’s 106th Rescue Wing, the successor to the 1978 unit, gathered at VFW Post 1505 in Keeseville, to remember the men killed in the crash of “Jolly 85”. The 106th Rescue Wing has assisted the state in battling the 1995 "Sunrise Wildfires" in the Hamptons, they were first on the scene after the crash of TWA Flight 800, and the recovery of the wreckage from the plane flown by John F. Kennedy, Jr., which crashed into the Atlantic Ocean in 1999. The four New York Air National Guard Airmen were part of a seven-member team who died when the HH-60G Pave Hawk rescue helicopter they …