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A SAR cruiser of the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service. Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger. The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, typically determined by the type of terrain the search is conducted over.
Search and rescue in the United States. Search and rescue in the United States involves a wide range of organizations that have search and rescue responsibilities. In January 2008, the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released the National Response Framework (NRF) which serves as the guiding document for a federal response ...
1st Arctic Search and Rescue Squadron. Bluie West One. Constituted and activated on 25 Jun 1943 at Buckley Field. 2d Arctic Search and Rescue Squadron. Buckley Field. Constituted and activated on 18 Sep 1943. 3d Arctic Search and Rescue Squadron. Buckley Field.
Urban search and rescue. Urban search and rescue (abbreviated as USAR[1] or US&R[2]) is a type of technical rescue operation that involves the location, extrication, and initial medical stabilization of victims trapped in an urban area, namely structural collapse due to natural disasters, war, terrorism or accidents, mines and collapsed trenches.
A few short months later, Capt. Porter was killed on a rescue mission when his B-25 was shot down. [citation needed] A Sikorsky HH-53B refueling during the Vietnam War. During the Vietnam War the costly rescue of Bat 21 led the US military to find a new approach to high-threat search and rescue. They recognized that if a SAR mission was ...
Survival handbook of the United States Army Air Forces (USAAF) from 1944. Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) is a training concept originally developed by the United Kingdom during World War II. It is best known by its military acronym and prepares a range of Western forces to survive when evading or being captured.
Search and rescue missions include a variety of missions: searches for lost hunters, hikers, or Alzheimer's patients, sources of emergency locator transmitter signals, and missing aircraft. The center frequently dispatches rescue assets to provide aid and transportation to people needing medical attention in remote or isolated areas, for ...
The International Cospas-Sarsat Programme is a satellite -aided search and rescue (SAR) initiative. It is organized as a treaty -based, nonprofit, intergovernmental, humanitarian cooperative of 45 nations and agencies (see infobox). [2] It is dedicated to detecting and locating emergency locator radio beacons activated by persons, aircraft or ...