As a Special Tactics pararescueman, Kraines was trained to conduct combat search and rescue and ... United States Air Force in March 2011 and immediately entered the two-year PJ training ...

These are just some of the missions of the Air Force Special Tactics -- the parajumpers, or PJs, and combat control technician, or CCT. The PJs are responsible for providing emergency and life ...

William Pitsenbarger’s heroics gained more recognition in the eyes of the general public thanks to the 2019 motion ...

The show chronicles an Afghanistan deployment for the Pararescuemen (a/k/a Para Jumpers a/k/a PJs), an elite Air Force Combat Rescue unit whose mission it is to extract and provide medical ...

PJs specialize in combat search and rescue, deploying anywhere in the ... both are critical to special ops success. Navy SARCs and Air Force PJ’s are both special operations forces medics ...

Actor Anthony Mackie, who plays PJ-turned-superhero Captain America, poses with pararescue specialists and combat rescue officers of the 58th Rescue Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.

If the U.S. Air Force sends a traditional combat search and rescue helicopter into that highly contested airspace, the chances are high it gets shot down, leaving the service with several more ...

Ohio — The U.S. Air Force is preparing a report to Congress detailing a major cost overrun that resulted from its decision to cut its HH-60W combat rescue helicopter procurement by 38 aircraft.

Airmen assigned to the 23rd Wing load an HH-60W Jolly Green II combat search-and-rescue helicopter onto a C-17 Globemaster III at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Sept. 19. This is the first ...

(Samuel King Jr./Air Force) The Air Force wrapped up the latest round of tests on its new combat rescue helicopter Tuesday, moving the Sikorsky-built HH-60W Jolly Green II a step closer to full ...

The Air Force awarded a contract Thursday that could be worth up to $8 billion to Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. to build as many as 112 combat rescue helicopters, the second major Pentagon helicopter ...