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Prior to 1974, the Air Force divided the continental United States into three regions, each with a separate rescue center. In May of that year, the Air Force consolidated the three centers into one facility at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. This provided better coordination of activities, improved communications and economy of operations, and ...
Aerospace Rescue & Recovery Training Center, 7 February 1969 – 30 June 71; Air Force Rescue Coordination Center, May 1974 – c. 1 June 1989, unknown – c. 1 March 1993; Atlantic Air Rescue Center (later Atlantic Aerospace Rescue & Recovery Center, 40th Aerospace Rescue & Recovery Wing), 8 October 1961 – 30 June 1973
The United States Air Force Combat Diver Course—administratively known as the 350th Battlefield Airmen Training Squadron, Det 2—is held at the Navy Diving Salvage and Training Center, Naval Support Activity Panama City and trains Pararescuemen, Combat Rescue Officers, Combat Controllers, and Special Tactics Officers to conduct and participate in special operations diving missions.
Personnel who complete this training are awarded the basic parachutist rating and are allowed to wear the Parachutist Badge. Air Force Combat Diver School, Navy Diving and Salvage Training Center, Naval Support Activity Panama City, Florida (5.5 weeks) U.S. Air Force Rescue Operators (CRO/PJ) inserted via USMC CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter.
Civil Air Patrol performs search and rescue missions, directed by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center at Tyndall Air Force Base.Civil Air Patrol provides air and ground transportation and an extensive communications network during disaster relief efforts, and conducts aerial photography of damaged areas after natural disasters.
It performs continental US inland search and rescue missions and is credited by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center with saving an average of 70 lives annually.
The 210th is one of the busiest Air Force combat search and rescue squadrons in the world. with an average of one search and rescue mission a week in addition to regular training and mission. [1] To date, the 210th has launched on over 500 missions resulting in over 300 lives saved and over 100 lives assisted.
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.