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Pararescue Indoctrination Course Training Gear aircrew taking the Combat Team Member Course aim their weapons during training at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona Pararescuemen from the 48th Rescue Squadron prepare to extricate a simulated patient from between two vehicles during Razor’s Edge 2018 at the Northwest Fire District Training ...
Pararescuemen performing a hoist extraction during a training exercise Combat Controllers guiding a C-130 while taking off at a remote airfield A Special Operations Weather Tech pilots an RQ-11B UAV in Afghanistan
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 .
Guardian Angel is an USAF non-aircraft weapon system program designed to execute USAF Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) and Personnel Recovery (PR) across the full spectrum of military operations. [3] Currently, Guardian Angels can reach casualties by parachute or helicopter.
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.
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.
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. The squadron possesses no aircraft; its rescue personnel fly on the helicopters of the 66th Rescue Squadron .
Name Type Versions Picture Ammunition Used by Mounted Weapons GAU-8 Avenger: Seven-barrelled Rotary cannon: 30 mm A-10/OA-10 Thunderbolt II: GAU-22/A: Four-barrelled Rotary cannon