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Tag Archives: combat search and rescue
Air Force struggles to keep Pave Hawks in air
SAN ANTONIO — It’s more difficult than ever to keep the 30-year-old Pave Hawk flying, and Air Force officials estimate only 57 percent of the combat search-and-rescue fleet will be available for missions at any given time this year.
AF budget request calls for 48 new Reapers
The Air Force avoided the budget ax it fell under last year and increased its investment in unmanned aircraft, according to fiscal 2011 budget recommendations laid out Monday by Defense Secretary Robert Gates.More MQ-9A Reapers will be bought than any … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Air, combat search and rescue, Comptroller. The, Iraq, Maj. Gen. Alfred K, Marilyn M. Thomas, Robert Gates
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If needed, nearly all airmen could go to war
About this time last year, Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz huddled with his war planners to figure out how to get more medical evacuation helicopters to Afghanistan.Schwartz offered up the aircraft used to teach pilots to fly the HH-60G … Continue reading
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Tagged Afghanistan, Camp Bastion, Chief, Col. Marc Reece, combat search and rescue, Denmark, Great Britain, Lt. Col. Mick Harper, Nev., Reece, South Korea
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Combat search, rescue highlighted in new ad
A commercial highlighting combat search and rescue airmen began airing Monday in television markets and select movie theaters across the country.The flashy 30-second spot shows two airmen parachuting from a helicopter and locating a downed comrade under cover of darkness.The … Continue reading