"This was a complex rescue mission, but our Airmen were up for the task... This is the third successful long-range, overwater mission we have executed within the past nine months. Saving lives beyond the capability of others is what we do best."
Source: Col. Steven J. Butow, 129th RQW commander, in statements that followed the 129th Rescue Wing's successful completion of a complex, overwater rescue of an injured ship hand from a Marshall Islands flagged merchant vessel approximately 300 miles off the coast of Mexico on Nov, 29. The rescue mission increases the wing's total lives saved to 957.