33rd Rescue Squadron launches operation with the HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter

Airman 1st Class Timothy Hall, a crew chief with the 33rd Rescue Squadron, prepares to conduct the launch of a HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter during Beverly High 11-03, a local operational readiness exercise at Kadena Air Base, Japan, March 3. The 33rd RQS trains, equips and employs combat-ready pararescuemen who are experts in medical care and small-unit tactics providing survivor contact, treatment and extraction during combat rescue operations in hostile or denied territory. The unit uses various fixed and rotary wing insertion and extraction assets providing combat and humanitarian search, rescue and medical assistance in all environments. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Jarvie Z. Wallace)

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