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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.
8th Flying Training Squadron: 8 Ballers [646] Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 71 FTW: 1 February 1942 Vance AFB, Oklahoma [647] T-6A [648] VN: 23rd Flying Training Squadron: Air Education and Training Command: Nineteenth Air Force: 58 SOW: 15 January 1941 Fort Novosel, Alabama [649] TH-1H [650] 25th Flying Training ...
Rescue 8 is a syndicated American action adventure drama series about Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACFD) Rescue Squad 8. It premiered in 1958 and originally ran for two seasons with syndicated reruns continuing for almost a decade thereafter.
That Squadron which has become HSC-8 was established on 1 November 1969. HS-8 squadron insignia. The first squadron designated HS-8 was established at Naval Auxiliary Air Station Ream Field, Imperial Beach, California on 1 June 1956. The first helicopters employed by the command were the HSS-1N Seabat.
Curtiss C-46 'Commando' over the Himalayas Pararescuemen with the 301st Rescue Squadron return with a downed pilot from a successful rescue mission 8 April 2003 at a forward deployed location in southern Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom. A pararescueman from the 66th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron provides medical attention to a wounded Afghan.
OA-10A Catalina at the National Museum of the United States Air Force [note 1]. The 582nd Helicopter Group was first activated in mid December 1943 as the 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron at Hamilton Field, California, but remained a cadre only until the end of the month, when the squadron was brought up to full strength.
57th Air Rescue Squadron (later 57th Air Recovery Squadron), 24 June 1958 – 8 January 1966; 58th Air Rescue Squadron (later 58th Aerospace Rescue & Recovery Squadron), 8 December 1956 – 18 September 1960 (attached to United States Air Forces in Europe), 18 June 1961 – 1 April 1967 [25] 64th Air Rescue Squadron, 20 June 1958 – 18 June 1960
The 563rd Rescue Group directs flying operations dedicated to personnel recovery and is part of Air Combat Command.The group is responsible for training, readiness, and operations of one Lockheed HC-130J Combat King squadron, two Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk squadrons, two "Guardian Angel" squadrons, and an operations support squadron.