United States Air Force Pararescue. Pararescuemen (also known as PJs) are United States Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) and Air Combat Command (ACC) operators tasked with recovery and medical treatment of personnel in humanitarian and combat environments. These special operations units are also used to support NASA missions and have been used to recover astronauts after water landings. They are attached to other SOF teams from all branches to conduct other operations as appropriate.
Of the roughly 2. Air Force Cross recipients, only 2. Pararescuemen. Part of the little- known Air Force Special Operations community.
Air Force Pararescue personnel assigned to Baghdad International Airport (BIAP), perform a hoist extraction of a survivor during an Urban Operations Training Exercise (UOTE) at the Maltz training site, in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, 2. Pre. In that year, Army Medical Corps doctor Colonel Albert E. Truby predicted that . However, it was another two decades before technology and necessity helped to create what would eventually become Air Force Pararescue. Even so, there were developments in critical technologies. In 1. 94. 0, two United States Forest Service.
Smokejumpers, Earl Cooley and Rufus Robinson, showed that parachutists could be placed very accurately onto the ground using the newly invented 'steerable parachute.' These parachutes and the techniques smokejumpers used with them were completely different from the techniques used by Army airborne units. It was in that year that Dr. Martin was trained by the U. S. Forest Service Smokejumper Parachute Training Center in Seeley Lake, Montana as the first 'para- doctor'.
World War II. As the war progressed, a U. S. While training, techniques and equipment varied, one rule was constant: . The CAP would usually send in ground crews after locating a crash site; however, they would sometimes land small aircraft and they did experiment with parachute rescue teams. With Canada's entry into WWII in 1. Canadian fighter ace. Wop May was put in charge of training operations and took over command at the No 2 Air Observer School in Edmonton, Alberta.
Edmonton was one of the common stops for A- 2. Boston, B- 2. 6 Marauder and especially B- 2. Mitchell bombers being flown to the Soviet Union as part of the lend- lease program.
When these aircraft went down, typically due to mechanical or navigational problems, the crew often survived only to die attempting to make it out of the bush. May's school was often asked to supply aircraft to search for downed planes, but even when one was spotted there was often little they could do to help. May decided to address this problem. In early 1. 94. 2 May asked for volunteers from his civilian servicing crew, and about a dozen agreed to join. With basically no equipment, the instruction consisted of . Early operations were comical, but in early 1. May sent two volunteers, Owen Hargreaves and Scotty Thompson to the smoke jumpers school in Missoula, Montana to be trained by the U.
S. After six weeks they returned home with borrowed steerable equipment to train two other volunteers, Wilfred Rivet and Laurie Poulsom. Soon the unit was conducting operational jumps, and by 1. May's persistence had paid off and an official para- rescue training program started. For his work, May was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom with Bronze Palm in 1. USAAF. Most flights were over enemy- occupied territory, where a landing meant immediate capture. In the UK area of the European Theatre, the British military was at the time creating its own Royal Air Force Mountain Rescue Service which would be based largely on civilian mountain rescue doctrine. The RAFMRS has rescued many American aircrew, or recovered remains, from USAF crashes over its UK territory.
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Crashes during over- water flights created a great many casualties, the Eighth Air Force initiated a 'sea rescue' group. From its creation in 1. In the vast reaches of the Pacific Theater, a plane crash meant almost certain death from exposure to the elements. The Army formed several squadrons in theater specifically to aid and rescue downed flyers. Here was a unique combination of long overland flights through territory that was loosely held by the enemy and survivable. Dominating the flying in the CBI was 'The Hump' route: cargo flights that left India carrying thousands of tons of vital war supplies had to cross the spine of the Himalayas to reach their destinations in China.
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Every day thousands of flight crews and their passengers risked their lives making this passage in C- 4. C- 4. 7 aircraft. Many of these flights never arrived at their destinations due to mechanical problems, weather and mistakes.
Crews forced to bail out or crash land faced weeks of hardship in tracing a path back to civilization, enduring harsh weather, little food, and the injuries they sustained during the crashes. Capt. One of their first rescue missions was the recovery of twenty people who had bailed out of a stricken C- 4. August 1. 94. 3 in the Naga area of Burma; an area that contained not just Japanese troops, but tribes of head hunters as well.
Among the twenty was CBS reporter Eric Sevareid. The men were located and supplies were dropped to them. The wing flight surgeon, Lt. Don Flickinger, and two combat surgical technicians, Sgt.
William Mac. Kenzie, parachuted from the search planes to assist and care for the injured. At the same time, a ground team was sent to their location and all twenty walked to safety. Although parachute rescues were not officially authorized at the time, this is considered by PJs to be the birth of Air Force pararescue.
Eric Sevareid said of his rescuers: . A few short months later, Capt. Porter was killed on a rescue mission when his B- 2. In 1. 94. 4, General William H. Tunner took command of Air Transport Command operations in CBI. Declaring the rescue organization to be a 'cowboy operation', he appointed Maj. Pricer commander of the 3.
Air Search and Rescue Squadron and assigned him several aircraft for the mission. In addition to fixed- wing aircraft, early helicopters were deployed to the CBI for use in rescue, marking the start of a long association between rotary- wing aircraft and air rescue. Officially established on 2. May 1. 94. 6, the ARS was charged with saving the lives of aircrews who were involved in aircraft disasters, accidents, crash landings, ditchings or abandonments occurring away from an air base, and with being world- deployable to support far- flung air operations. In the area around an air base, the air base commander had search and rescue jurisdiction through the Local Base Rescue (LBR) helicopter units. However, these were limited to a 1.
In order to reach beyond this limitation, Pararescue teams were authorized on 1 July 1. November. Each team was to be composed of a Para- doctor and four Pararescue technicians trained in medicine, survival, rescue and tactics. Pararescue was given the mission of rescuing crews lost on long- range bomber and transport missions and to support other agencies when aerial rescue was requested. A mission earlier in 1. Air Force Pararescue. His actions earned him the Bronze Star and made him another of Pararescue's early legends. Shortly after Pararescue teams were authorized, the 5th Rescue Squadron conducted the first Pararescue and Survival School at Mac.
Dill Air Force Base in Florida. The core of instructors were experienced officers and enlisted men who were recruited from all branches of service. The commandant of that first school was pilot 1st Lieutenant Perry C. Emmons, who had been assigned to the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) during World War II. At the close of the war, Emmons and six sergeants flew prisoners of war out of Thailand, earning his group the nickname .
After the war, Emmons completed Airborne School at Fort Benning, Georgia, becoming only the second jump- qualified Air Force pilot. Clobbered Turkey. Kinney, First Sergeant Santhell A.
London, premier Army Air Forces cold weather expert and T- 5 Leon J. The team encountered poor visibility, extreme temperatures and high winds on the site and as a result, all three perished. Casey's body was found seven miles (1. Two members of the crew of the . When civilian bush pilots William Munz and Frank Whaley finally arrived at the crash site two days later, they found that the remaining six members of the crew. Kinney's body was not located until July of the next year.
In 1. 94. 9, due to a shortage of available doctors, Medical Service Corps officers replaced Para- doctors on the teams, receiving the same training as the enlisted Pararescuemen. One of the first of these officers was John C.
Shumate, a pharmacist, who was appointed commandant of the Pararescue and Survival School. At this time the Air Rescue Specialist Course was created at the School of Aviation Medicine, Gunter Air Force Base, Alabama. Designed to teach Pararescuemen the skills needed to determine the nature and extent of injuries and to administer treatment, the course was taught by Medical Corps officers with previous Pararescue experience, including: Dr.
Pope B.'Doc' Holliday, Dr. Hamilton Blackshear, Dr.
Burt Rowan. Korean War. By 1. 95. 0, the unification of all the formerly independent Air Rescue Squadrons under the umbrella of the Air Rescue Service was complete. In 1. 95. 0, North Korea attacked across the 3. Korean War. This was an opportunity for Air Rescue to put training into practice and to develop theories into policies. One of the key new concepts was rescue of stranded personnel from behind enemy lines. This, along with evacuating critically wounded men from aid stations close to the front, were Air Rescue's primary missions. Pararescuemen were a normal part of Air Rescue crews for these missions.
Their medical and tactical skills made them invaluable for evacuation and rescue missions of this type. Pararescuemen were often called upon to leave the helicopters that carried them in order to assist the personnel they were sent to rescue.