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A rescue squadron's main task is to provide both combat, and peacetime search and rescue operations. Which involve the search for and the provision of aid to those in danger or distress, in combat the role may overlap somewhat with casualty evacuation operations.
8th Flying Training Squadron: 8 Ballers [646] Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 71 FTW: 1 February 1942 Vance AFB, Oklahoma [647] T-6A [648] VN: 23rd Flying Training Squadron: Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 58 SOW: 15 January 1941 Fort Novosel, Alabama [649] TH-1H [650] 25th Flying Training ...
Rescue 8 is a syndicated American action adventure drama series about Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACFD) Rescue Squad 8. It premiered in 1958 and originally ran for two seasons with syndicated reruns continuing for almost a decade thereafter.
That Squadron which has become HSC-8 was established on 1 November 1969. HS-8 squadron insignia. The first squadron designated HS-8 was established at Naval Auxiliary Air Station Ream Field, Imperial Beach, California on 1 June 1956. The first helicopters employed by the command were the HSS-1N Seabat.
Curtiss C-46 'Commando' over the Himalayas Pararescuemen with the 301st Rescue Squadron return with a downed pilot from a successful rescue mission 8 April 2003 at a forward deployed location in southern Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. A pararescueman from the 66th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron provides medical attention to a wounded Afghan.
57th Air Rescue Squadron (later 57th Air Recovery Squadron), 24 June 1958 – 8 January 1966; 58th Air Rescue Squadron (later 58th Aerospace Rescue & Recovery Squadron), 8 December 1956 – 18 September 1960 (attached to United States Air Forces in Europe), 18 June 1961 – 1 April 1967 [25] 64th Air Rescue Squadron, 20 June 1958 – 18 June 1960
In June 1995, the group, now designated the 1st Rescue Group, was activated at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida as the command element for the 41st Rescue Squadron, flying Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopters and the 71st Rescue Squadrons, flying Lockheed HC-130 Hercules tankers, although the group was not manned until the middle of July. [21]
The 305th Rescue Squadron is part of the 943rd Rescue Group at Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona, a subordinate of the 920th Rescue Wing at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida. It operates Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk and HH-60W Jolly Green II aircraft conducting peacetime and combat search and rescue missions.