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This article is a list of United States air force rescue squadrons both active, inactive, and historical. A rescue squadron's main task is to provide both combat, and peacetime search and rescue operations.
It covers special operations forces units assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command in the United States Air Force. Special Tactics Squadrons consist of Special Tactics Officers, Combat Controllers, Combat Rescue Officers, Pararescuemen, Special Reconnaissance, Tactical Air Control Party operators, and a number of combat support airmen ...
The United States Air Force Combat Rescue School (for most of its existence, either Air Rescue Service or Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service), was an organization of the United States Air Force. The school was established in 1946 as Air Rescue Service' under Air Transport Command , little more than a year before the United States Air Force ...
1st Airborne Command Control Squadron: Air Force Global Strike Command: Eighth Air Force: 595 C2G: 25 September 1917 Offutt AFB, Nebraska: E-4 [116] 12th Airborne Command and Control Squadron: Air Combat Command: Fifteenth Air Force: 461 ACW: 18 October 1942 Robins AFB, Georgia: E-8 [117] GA: 16th Airborne Command and Control Squadron: Air ...
0–9. 1st Air Rescue Squadron; 2d Air Rescue Squadron; 3d Air Rescue Squadron; 10th Air Rescue Squadron; 22nd Crash Rescue Boat Squadron; 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron
The 41st Rescue Squadron maintains combat-ready status as an HH-60W combat search and rescue (CSAR) squadron. This squadron specializes in combat rescue of downed aircrew behind enemy lines, using night vision goggles (NVG), low-level formation, air refueling, weapons employment, medevac, casevac, CAS (close air support) and survivor recovery.
The 210th is one of the busiest Air Force combat search and rescue squadrons in the world. with an average of one search and rescue mission a week in addition to regular training and mission. [1] To date, the 210th has launched on over 500 missions resulting in over 300 lives saved and over 100 lives assisted.
The squadron moved to MacDill Air Force Base, Florida in September 1949 and was assigned to Air Rescue Service. [1] Despite the move, the squadron's area of responsibility (the Caribbean and eastward in the mid-Atlantic to Bermuda) remained the same. [17] At MacDill the squadron became the 1st Air Rescue Squadron. [1]