With nearly 450 Airmen on a 24-hour operations schedule at Evers Field, the 347th ERG in Jackson, Miss., has pulled more than 2,700 people to safety in less than a week, said Maj. Todd Worms, a 347th ERG operations officer also from Moody.

"The mission we're providing is absolutely critical to ... all those we've pulled from harm's way," Major Worms said. "And there are many left."

"We're not going home until we've lifted everyone we can," Callahan said.

Twenty-three HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter crews are rotating eight day and four night missions.