PERSONNEL RECOVERY

SAVING LIVES BEHIND ENEMY LINES

Special Tactics teams conduct personnel recovery missions, from rapid mission planning to technical rescue, treatment, and ex-filtration. With in-depth medical and rescue expertise, along with their deployment capabilities, Special Tactics Airmen can perform rescue missions in the world’s most remote areas.

PERSONNEL RECOVERY CAPABILITIES

TECHNICAL RESCUE

BATTLEFIELD TRAUMA CARE

SPECIAL OPERATIONS FORCES (SOF)-TAILORED RECOVERY

MOUNTAINEERING AND HIGH-ANGLE RESCUES

PERSONNEL RECOVERY IN ACTION

PAST TRAINING AND MISSIONS
  • July 2018, Thailand

  • Airmen from the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) conducted a combined land survey with Royal Thai Army partners at Chiang Rai, Thailand. The United States, through USINDOPACOM, sent a search and rescue team to Tham Luang cave in Northern Thailand at the request of the Royal Thai government to assist in the rescue of the missing Thai soccer players and their coach.