Tomorrow’s Downed Pilots May Be Rescued by an Osprey-Black Hawk Team
A U.S. Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter carrying combat search and rescue Airmen approaches a landing zone during an exercise Aug. 21, 2010, at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan.
By Marcus Weisgerber Read bio
September 20, 2016
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U.S. Air Force / Staff Sgt. Christopher Boitz
A U.S. Air Force chief of staff who was shot down over Serbia has reenergized the debate over the best way to do combat search and rescue.
U.S. Air Force officials have spent the better part of the past decade chewing over the best way to rescue pilots downed over a battlefield. But now the debate is kicking into high gear, thanks to an F-16 pilot who owes his life to combat-search-and-rescue crews: Chief of Staff Gen. David Goldfein.
CSAR units need “to be able to operate across the range of combat operations,” Goldfein told reporters Tuesday at the Air Force Association’s annual Air, Space and Cyber conference outside Washington, D.C.“We need to start the dialog there because if you get set in a particular scenario, it will lead you to one particular outcome and another scenario will lead you to a different outcome.”
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