Search and Rescue
Another Hornet in Davy Jones’ Locker
Another Fighter Jet Tumbles from Truman Carrier Deck into Red Sea By Konstantin Toropin The USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier lost another F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jet on Tuesday — the third since it deployed to the Middle East — this time amid a landing incident that caused the jet to go overboard, defense […]
Valor Friday
Where last we left Lieutenant Colonel Iceal “Gene” Hambleton and 1st Lieutenant Mark Clark they were trapped in South Vietnam, amidst the largest North Vietnamese Army (NVA) combined arms offensive of the war. It was April 5, 1972, and Hambleton had been alone on the ground for three days after being the lone survivor from […]
When Pigs Fly
SH-2F Sea Sprite That time a helo crew dropped greased pigs onto an aircraft carrier By Claire Barrett What’s faster than a greased apple down a drainpipe? A greased pig, apparently. In 1986, members of a U.S. Navy helicopter crew stationed aboard the USS America sought to bring a moment of levity to the conclusion […]
Even Thieves Get Rescued
PO3 John “Branch” Walton, USCG Great account of SAR from the wet perspective. Coast Guard Swimmer Recounts Dramatic Rescue of Alleged Oregon Yacht Thief and ‘Goonies’ Prankster By Aimee Green “They all could have got it done, but they let me go,” Walton said. “I was kind of in disbelief, like, ‘Oh, is this really […]
SAR Community Remembers Pedro 66
HH-60 Pave Hawk Eggs sends us this sober reminder that for the SAR community, you have to go. You don’t have to come back. Rescue community remembers fallen Pedro 66 Airmen By Senior Airman Michael Charles | Nellis Public Affairs The 66th Rescue Squadron held a ceremony for the crew of Pedro 66 June 9 […]
Rescue Swimmer School Claims Another
A 30-year-old sailor died Tuesday, more than a week after he became unresponsive while training to become a helicopter rescue swimmer on board Naval Air Station Pensacola. Airman Nathan Burke of Lubbock, Texas, died at Baptist Hospital in Pensacola, Florida, Navy officials announced. He’d been attending Aviation Rescue Swimmer School and was training in a […]
Navy, Air Force continue search and rescue operations for missing Nimitz sailor
Over the weekend a sailor has gone missing from the USS Nimitz, deployed to the North Arabian Sea. He/she went missing on Sunday. After scouring the ship and not locating the sailor, a man overboard was called. Since then, Navy and Air Force resources have been engaged in search and rescue ops in the area. […]
Navy helicopter team rescues hiker…
An MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island prepares to land during an Alpine Search and Rescue training mission in the Olympic Mountains. (MC2 Marc Cuenca/Navy) …hurt in Olympic Mountains MOUNT TOWNSEND, Wash. — A helicopter crew from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island rescued a hiker who was severely injured in a […]
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