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Air Force Airmen get a shot at making commercials

December 11th, 2008 Comments off
A video contest for every Airman began December 1 providing an opportunity for Airmen to develop and produce videos to capture their vision of an effective Air Force recruiting and retention TV commercial. The videos should be a mission-documentary format, in which Airmen talk about what they do for the Air Force and our Nation. Entries are due to the US Air Force Public Affairs agency by Jan. 9. Contact your local PA Office for submission guidelines and legal conditions.




All videos submitted will be posted to Air Force Blue Tube, www.youtube.com/afbluetube where anyone can view and download them.

Posted by Captain David Faggard, Air Force Public Affairs.

US Air Force Airmen perform daring rescue at sea

December 11th, 2008 Comments off
U.S. Air Force Airmen and aircraft were part of an international effort over the Atlantic Ocean late Wednesday that saved the life of a crew member who suffered a life-threatening head injury onboard a cargo ship over 320 miles west of Cork, Ireland.



The Burmese crew member was injured at sea on a Liberian-flagged cargo vessel when he fell 40 feet from a container, sustaining injuries that couldn’t be properly treated on board the ship.

In coordination with British rescue officials, a U.S. Air Force command and control hub in Germany orchestrated numerous assets from the United Kingdom to rescue the crew member in little more than 12 hours.

The British Ministry of Defense realized the need for longer distance air-refuelable helicopters in order to reach the sea-going vessel and called on a UK-based U.S. Air Force unit for assistance.





As the Royal Air Force launched a Nimrod maritime surveillance aircraft from RAF Kinloss in Scotland to monitor the situation and provide communication support, the U.S. Air Force began quickly putting a plan into action.

The 603rd Air Operations Center, Personnel Recovery Coordination Cell, at Ramstein, Germany, provided coordination for all necessary players making the mission possible.

The 56th Rescue Squadron out of the 48th Fighter Wing at RAF Lakenheath, UK, put highly-trained pararescuemen on two HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters who medically attend to the injured man.

The 352nd Special Operations Group out of RAF Mildenhall provided their 67th Special Operations Squadron’s MC-130P Combat Shadow aerial refueler to refuel the helicopters given its specific capability to do so. Because the distance was so far, the 100th Air Refueling Wing at RAF Mildenhall, UK, provided a KC-135 to refuel the Combat Shadow.
At approximately 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, the Air Force PJs reached the patient and were able to stabilize the crew member sufficiently to be safely hoisted to an HH-60G and flown to dry land.

At approximately 10:30 p.m. the helos touched down in Shannon in the Republic of Ireland, where an ambulance was waiting to transport the patient to a local hospital. The patient was admitted and is now in stable condition.






Posted by Captain David Faggard, Air Force Public Affairs