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  • PJs bring calm to chaos

    The 38th Rescue Squadron conducted a Mass Casualty Full Mission Profile exercise at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, Jan. 19, 2023 to enhance PJ’s capabilities and test the critical skills they may find themselves needing.

  • Search and Rescue: taking survival skillsets to new heights

    U.S. Air Force members from the 563rd Rescue Group forward deployed to Camp Navajo, Arizona, from Jan. 24-28, 2022, to complete cold weather survival training while implementing agile combat employment by operating and flying out of a contingency location at a higher elevation of about 7,100 feet.

  • Air Force’s last serving POW retires

    “I thought to myself ‘this is it - I’m a dead man.’” As Lt. Col. Rob Sweet, the last serving Air Force prisoner of war, approached retirement on June 6, he recalled the moment during Operation Desert Storm when his A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft was shot down by enemy forces southwest of Basra, Iraq.

  • Becoming a SERE Augmentee

    Seymour Johnson Air Force Base Airmen on are on their way to become survival, evasion, resistance and escape augmentees, a title which allows them to help 4th Operations Squadron SERE specialist train hundreds of aircrew assigned to the base when their survival refresher training is due.

  • SERE-ious training

    Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape specialists are experts on how to survive in the most remote and hostile environments in the world. Along with teaching water survival courses, SERE specialists at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia, train aircrew personnel on an array of skills from making a