Sept. 17, 2025 40th Helicopter Squadron Conducts its first Rescue with the MH-139 The 40th Helicopter Squadron located a lost hiker Aug. 25-26, 2025, in the Stillwater Plateau region of the Beartooth Mountains, Mont. It was the squadron’s first full search and rescue operation using an MH-139 Grey Wolf helicopter.
Nov. 22, 2022 Montana Airmen rescue ailing man from snow-bound home Thick white snow flurried in a heavy wave through the northern sky, nearly concealing the green belly and graphite blades of a UH-1N Huey helicopter slicing through the snowstorm.
Jan. 31, 2020 40th HS rescues missing snowmobilers in MT mountains A UH-1N Iroquois with a five-man air crew rescued A UH-1N Iroquois with a five-man air crew rescued two missing snowmobilers south of Neihart, Montana Jan. 29.
Oct. 24, 2018 Heroic, hazardous rescue by 40th Helicopter Squadron An Air Force helicopter crew located and extracted a missing hunter Monday near Hamilton, Montana, concluding a search by ground and air search and rescue groups that began Saturday night.The 40th Helicopter Squadron received a request Sunday to assist a Ravalli County search and rescue ground party