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The United States Air Force Combat Rescue School (for most of its existence, either Air Rescue Service or Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service), was an organization of the United States Air Force. The school was established in 1946 as Air Rescue Service' under Air Transport Command , little more than a year before the United States Air Force ...
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.
On 8 January 1966 the squadron was redesignated the 38th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron as part of the Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service, [1] and assigned to the 3rd Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Group. [3]: 75 A further 4 detachments were later organised as follows: [3]: 113 Detachment 11 Tuy Hoa Air Base
6th Air Rescue Group, 14 November 1952; Air Rescue Service, 18 February 1958 – 18 June 1960; Military Air Transport Service, 10 May 1961 (not organized) Air Rescue Service (later Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service), 18 June 1961; 39th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Wing (later 39th Special Operations Wing), 1 January 1970
The 39th Rescue Squadron is an Air Force Reserve Command unit of the 920th Rescue Wing (920 RQW) at Patrick Space Force Base, Florida.Until December 2019, it operated the Lockheed HC-130P/N Combat King aircraft conducting search and rescue and combat search and rescue/personnel recovery missions. [2]
The squadron, now the 48th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron was reactivated at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington in September 1972. It supported the 3636th Combat Crew Training Wing , which conducted the Air Force's advanced survival school at Fairchild, while continuing to fly search and rescue (SAR) missions.
Air Rescue Service, 18 Feb 1958 – 18 September 1960; Air Rescue Service (later Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service), 18 June 1961; Atlantic Rescue and Recovery Center (later 40 Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Wing), 1 April 1967 – 15 February 1970; 57th Operations Group, 14 June 2002 [1] 563d Rescue Group, 1 October 2003 – present) [3]
2d Air Rescue Group, 14 November 1952; Air Rescue Service, 24 June 1958 – 18 September 1960; Air Rescue Service (later Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service), 8 July 1963 (attached to Pacific Air Rescue Center (later Pacific Aerospace Rescue and Recovery) Center, until 31 March 1967)