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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 ...
The United States Air Force Pararescue Indoctrination Course was a 9 week long mandatory selection course that United States Air Force airmen must pass in order to attend the USAF Pararescue training course. This course has since been phased out with PJ hopefuls attending the AFSPECWAR Assessment & Selection Course at Chapman Annex, Joint Base ...
As the Air Force's Tier 1 unit, the 24th STS provides special operations airmen to the Joint Special Operations Command, including Pararescuemen, Combat Controllers, Special Reconnaissance, and Tactical Air Control Party personnel. 24th STS members are also trained to conduct classified and clandestine operations such as direct action, counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, hostage rescue, and ...
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 .
The 58th Air Rescue Squadron was activated at Wheelus Air Base, Libya, where it assumed the mission and took over the resources of Flight E, 6th Air Rescue Squadron. The 58th flew search and rescue in parts of the Middle East, Africa, and Southern Europe , especially at the El Uotia Gunnery Range in Libya.
Then-Commander Colonel Michael Martin at a dedication ceremony honoring 24th STS Staff Sgt. Andrew Harvell who was killed in Afghanistan the previous year.. The 724th Special Tactics Group is one of the special operations ground components of the 24th Special Operations Wing, assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC).
The 26th Special Tactics Squadron is one of the Special Tactics units of the United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC). It is garrisoned at Cannon Air Force Base, New Mexico. From 1991 to 1992, the squadron's predecessor, the 7026th Special Activities Squadron was stationed in Europe.
Staff Sgt. Richard Hunter, a combat controller with the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron, received the Air Force Cross for his actions during a battle in Kunduz Province, Afghanistan on 2 November 2016. Hunter was embedded in a joint US Special Forces/Afghan unit that was engaged in a fierce firefight in a village near Kunduz Province ...