Air Force combat search and rescue joins AFSOC team

Air Force combat search and rescue joins AFSOC team

(EXCERPT) by Lt. Gen. Paul Hester Air Force Special Operations Command
commander

9/30/2003 - HURLBURT FIELD, Fla. (AFPN) -- On Oct. 1, the Air Force
Special Operations Command patch will adorn the uniforms of nearly
7,000 additional airmen as we welcome Air Force combat search and
rescue forces to the AFSOC family.

With the addition of CSAR units based in the continental United
States, we welcome a team of selfless professionals dedicated to a
credo “That Others May Live.”

Air commandos have long worked side-by-side with many of these
professionals in peacetime and combat operations. HH-60 Pave Hawk
crews have flown our special tactics teams into battle, while HC-130
Hercules have provided the fuel to get them there. The pararescuemen
and combat rescue officers have...

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