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3.1 Pararescue Creed. 3.2 Green Feet. 3.3 Origin of term "Para Jumper" 3.4 Maroon Beret. 3.5 Pararescue Flash. ... Pararescuemen (also known as Pararescue Jumpers or ...
Combat Rescue Officer (CRO) / Pararescue (PJ) Indoctrination Course, Lackland Air Force Base, Texas (9 weeks) [4] The mission of the Indoctrination Course is to select and train future CRO and PJs. At this school, participants undergo extensive physical conditioning with swimming, running, functional weight training and calisthenics .
Squadron Emblem Location Status Notes: 17th Special Tactics Squadron: Fort Moore, Georgia: Active [2]21st Special Tactics Squadron: Pope Field, North Carolina: Active [3]22nd Special Tactics Squadron
The emblem was selected by the government to be used as the official logo for Air Rescue Service until the branch had disestablished and Pararescue was created. The guardian angel and Latin phrase Ut Alique Viva, (trans) That Others May Live, are still used in the current logo for the United States Air Force Pararescue. [1]
The squadron consists of pararescue and support personnel, using the HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters of the 210th Rescue Squadron and the HC-130P Hercules transports of the 211th Rescue Squadron. All three squadrons are assigned to the 176th Operations Group.
Pararescue Jumpers [6] 1st Expeditionary Rescue Group: 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing: Previously at Diyarbakır Air Base: 59th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron: N/A: HH-60: Previously at Kandahar Airfield until Feb 2013 (451 AEW). [7] 64th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron: Palm Trees: N/A: HH-60G: 1st Expeditionary Rescue Group
The 210th possesses state-of-the-art "force multipliers". Its Pararescue officers and men are all highly trained in all manner of combat insertion and recovery, including SCUBA and military freefall parachute; all the men are Paramedics and even the officers are Emergency Medical Technicians.
At that time, rescue units were organized as fixed-wing, helicopter, or pararescue units. The squadron, now the 58th Rescue Squadron , was activated at Nellis Air Force Base , Nevada, in June 2002 as a pararescue squadron, often called a "Guardian Angel" squadron.