Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

1st Lt. Nicholas Adagio, 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron combat rescue officer, conducts a pre-jump check, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 03, 2016. The 83rd ERQS provides the only U.S. personnel recovery assets in Afghanistan. In order to maintain readiness and skill level, they participate in real world scenario exercises. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Pararescuemen from the 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron conduct checks before a jump, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 03, 2016. Airmen from the 83rd ERQS, 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, and 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, conducted a first of its kind mission rehearsal. The mission rehearsal integrated the various units to conduct an aerial insertion of an Air Force personnel recovery team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

1st Lt. Nicholas Adagio, 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron combat rescue officer, looks across the flightline, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 03, 2016. The 83rd ERQS provides the only U.S. personnel recovery assets in Afghanistan. In order to maintain readiness and skill level, they participate in real world scenario exercises. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Pararescuemen from the 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron listen to a pre-brief before a jump, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 03, 2016. Airmen from the 83rd ERQS, 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, and 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, conducted a first of its kind mission rehearsal. The mission rehearsal integrated the various units to conduct an aerial insertion of an Air Force personnel recovery team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Crucial capabilities unite: personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Staff Sgt. Benjamin Cole, 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron pararescueman, prepares to jump off a C-130J Super Hercules ramp during a recovery exercise, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 03, 2016. The 83rd ERQS participates in a real world scenario exercises in order to maintain readiness standards and demonstrate theater personnel recovery capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Pararescuemen from the 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron carry a simulated wounded patient during a recovery exercise, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 03, 2016. Airmen from the 83rd ERQS, 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, and 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, conducted a first of its kind mission rehearsal. The mission rehearsal integrated the various units to conduct an aerial insertion of an Air Force personnel recovery team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

An HH-60G Pave Hawk from the 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron comes in for a landing during an rescue exercise, Bagram, Afghanistan, Sept. 03, 2016. Airmen from the 83rd ERQS, 774th Expeditionary Airlift Squadron, and 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron, conducted a first of its kind mission rehearsal. The mission rehearsal integrated the various units to conduct an aerial insertion of an Air Force personnel recovery team. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Capt. Antonio Stone, 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Critical Care Air Transport Team nurse, checks vitals of a simulated wounded patient, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 03, 2016. If servicemembers must be moved from the battlefield to a medical facility outside of Afghanistan, the airmen assigned to the 455th EAES will be the link between them getting from the combat zone to higher-level medical care. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Capt. Antonio Stone (left), 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Critical Care Air Transport Team nurse, and Maj. Johnathan Henderson (right), 455th EAES CCATT doctor, puts in a chest tube for a simulated wounded patient, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 03, 2016. If servicemembers must be moved from the battlefield to a medical facility outside of Afghanistan, the airmen assigned to the 455th EAES will be the link between them getting from the combat zone to higher-level medical care. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Staff Sgt. Roderick Campbell, 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron, has an intravenous needle placed into his arm, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 03, 2016. Airmen from the 83rd ERQS, paired with airmen from the 455th Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron to increase interoperability with each other and demonstrate theater personnel recovery capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

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Crucial capabilities unite: personnel recovery, airlift, aeromedical evacuation

Published Sept. 6, 2016
By Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman
455th Air Expeditionary Wing Public Affairs

BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan -- 1st Lt. Nicholas Adagio, 83rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron combat rescue officer, conducts a pre-jump check, Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, Sept. 03, 2016. The 83rd ERQS provides the only U.S. personnel recovery assets in Afghanistan. In order to maintain readiness and skill level, they participate in real world scenario exercises. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Justyn M. Freeman)

Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Crucial capabilities unite: personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation

Crucial capabilities unite: Personnel recovery, airlift, and aeromedical evacuation