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  2. United States Air Force Pararescue - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. 38th Rescue Squadron - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. 720th Special Tactics Group - Wikipedia

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    The Group's Special Tactics Squadrons are made up of Special Tactics Officers, Combat Controllers, Combat Rescue Officers, Pararescuemen, Special Reconnaissance, Air Liaison Officers, Tactical Air Control Party personnel, and a number of combat support airmen which comprise 58 Air Force specialties.

  5. United States Air Force Combat Rescue Officer - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  6. List of United States Air Force rescue squadrons - Wikipedia

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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

  7. United States Air Force Pararescue Indoctrination Course

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    United States Air Force Pararescue trainees treading water during a pool session in an Indoctrination course. 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 ...

  8. Air Force Pararescue - Wikipedia

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  9. High-altitude military parachuting - Wikipedia

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    United States Air Force Pararescuemen jump at half the height of a typical HALO/HAHO insertion 2eme REP Legionnaires HALO jump from a C-160.. High-altitude military parachuting, or military free fall (MFF), is a method of delivering military personnel, military equipment, and other military supplies from a transport aircraft at a high altitude via free-fall parachute insertion.