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A mission earlier in 1947 was the final impetus for the formal creation of Air Force Pararescue. In May, Dr. (Capt) Pope B. 'Doc' Holliday parachuted out of an OA-10 Catalina into the Nicaraguan jungle to aid a crewmember who had parachuted from a crippled B-17 Flying Fortress.
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Muwaffaq Salti Air Base: HH-60G: 1st Expeditionary Rescue Group: 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing: Previously at Camp Bastion until 30 January 2013 (451 AEW). [5] 52d Expeditionary Rescue Squadron: Owl: Muwaffaq Salti Air Base: Pararescue Jumpers [6] 1st Expeditionary Rescue Group: 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing: Previously at Diyarbakır Air Base
The 38 RQS trains, equips, and employs combat-ready pararescue and supporting personnel worldwide in support of U.S. national security interests and NASA.This squadron provides survivor contact, treatment, and extraction during combat rescue operations, and uses various fixed/rotary wing insertion/extraction assets and employs by any means available to provide combat and humanitarian search ...
The 347th Rescue Group directs flying and maintenance of the one of two USAF active-duty groups dedicated to combat search and rescue. Responsible for training/readiness of 1,100 personnel, including a pararescue squadron, two flying squadrons (Lockheed HC-130J/HH-60W Jolly Green II), and an operations support squadron.
In 1999, members of United States Air Force Pararescue along with Air Force Special Operations recovery aircraft successfully rescued the pilot of an F-117 "stealth" attack aircraft (see 1999 F-117A shootdown) and also the pilot (David L. Goldfein) of an F-16 fighter aircraft.
The 212th Rescue Squadron (212 RQS) is a unit of the Alaska Air National Guard 176th Wing stationed at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Anchorage, Alaska. The squadron has no assigned aircraft; personnel assigned use aircraft of the 210th and 211th Rescue Squadrons of the Wing.
511th Air Force Base Unit (Air Rescue Flight), 16 May 1948 – 3 June 1948; 512th Air Force Base Unit (Air Rescue Flight), 1 May 1948 – 3 June 1948; 1050th Air Rescue Unit (later 2152d Rescue Unit), 1 June 1948 – c. 1 September 1949; 2150th Rescue Unit, 26 August 1948 – 1 September 1949; 2151st Rescue Unit, 26 August 1948 – 1 September 1949