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Edward Rittberg has not had much time to spruce up his new office, so only the essentials are present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among them are a small rock one of his daughters painted with the word \u201clove,\u201d a historic firefighter\u2019s badge a former commander bought for him at the New York City Fire Museum<\/a> and various challenge coins he earned throughout his 29 years in the United States Air Force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since April, when the 46-year-old Mattituck resident was promoted to command chief of the 106th Rescue Wing<\/a> at Francis S. Gabreski Airport in Westhampton Beach, this office is where he\u2019s spent the first half of most days. Like office duty anywhere, his is awash in emails and memos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But during the afternoon hours, he puts on his cap and tours the grounds of the 106th. He gathers the information he needs to perform his primary duty as command chief: advising Col. Shawn Fitzgerald<\/a>, Commander of the 106th Rescue Wing, on matters influencing the health, morale, welfare, quality of life and professional development of all enlisted personnel assigned to the wing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI may advise the Wing Commander on how we need to tweak different policies,\u201d he explained. \u201cEssentially, I don\u2019t stick my hand in the cookie jar. I have squadron chiefs that handle their business, and then there\u2019s group chiefs.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chief Master Sgt. Rittberg first joined the New York Air National Guard at the 106th Rescue Base in 1997. When discussing the wing\u2019s mission with a reporter from The Suffolk Times last week, he broke it down between federal and state responsibilities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The base\u2019s federal mission is combat rescue, for which they have a Guardian Angel unit. This collective of combat rescue officers, pararescuemen and specialists in survival, evasion, resistance and escape, known as SEREs, rescue personnel around the globe during peacetime and war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chief Master Sgt. Edward Rittberg sits in his new office at the 106th Rescue Wing. (Credit Nicholas Grasso)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Civilians are more likely aware of the 106th\u2019s New York State mission, which entails domestic rescues during crises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLet\u2019s say there\u2019s a hurricane, or there\u2019s flooding somewhere, or a snowstorm,\u201d Chief Master Sgt. Rittberg said. \u201cWe have to send the pararescuemen out with the technical rescue equipment that they have to go facilitate rescues anywhere in New York.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt can go beyond New York as well,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe\u2019ve been tasked to very different environments, [such as] Louisiana [during] Hurricane Harvey, so we can be tasked to go anywhere in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There are four groups on the base: operations, mission support, medical and maintenance. These are the cookie jars in his kitchen that the new command chief doesn\u2019t touch, but he knows what is involved in each of them. After all, he has worked in each of these groups during his nearly three decades of experience, and he believes this diverse background helped him secure his latest promotion. His tenure at the 106th has included time as a rescue loadmaster aboard an HC-130 aircraft in charge of cargo and personnel drops as well as sequential duties as senior enlisted leader of the mission support, medical and maintenance groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In between these tasks, he served as chief of the Air Expeditionary Force at the ANG Readiness Center at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland from 2011 to 2014. There, he was responsible for the deployment of 105,000 airmen worldwide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The chief master sergeant joined the Air Force after graduating from Bellport High School in 1994, enlisting as a life support specialist in charge of life-saving equipment. After completing technical training at Sheppard Air Force Base in northern Texas, he served the 335th Fighter Squadron at the Seymour Johnson Air Force Base in Goldsboro, N.C., where he became a survival instructor assigned to the 4th Fighter Wing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As his time in active duty was coming to an end, his father, Alan Rittberg, turned him on to where he worked as a vehicle maintenance chief: the 106th. Mr. Rittberg said he and his father often crossed paths as they performed different duties on the flight line for the same deployments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs he was proud of me, I was proud of him,\u201d he said. \u201cThere were different events we got to do together as father and son, and it was an amazing feeling, being able to work with your father at the end of his career.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he is not on duty serving his nation, Edward Rittberg serves his community as a volunteer with the Mattituck Fire Department, where he was chief throughout 2021 and 2022. His wife of 21 years, Carrie, is a Mattituck native and a physical education teacher at Commack Road Elementary School in Islip. He said he and Carrie have raised \u201ctwo incredible young women that I\u2019m proud of\u201d \u2014 daughters Rylie, 19, and Paige, 15. \u201cThey\u2019re my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When asked what he\u2019s been most proud of throughout his career \u2014 the end of which he said remains far in the distance \u2014 he did not ponder long on his answer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWorking at the 106th Rescue Wing,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s an incredible feeling, it\u2019s an incredible mission and I\u2019m very proud to be here.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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