In 1946 the Pararescue men also known as PJ’s were created. The Pararescue is the first branch of the military that’s based solely on rescue missions. They are the first of their kind in Americas military, they lead our nation in this area, even though they are part of the Air Force they are there to help save the navy seals, marines, army etc. there are no other branches of the military that are just for this purpose.
They have been to every corner of the world. They save our servicemen and women every day risking there lives “that others may live”. In the Korean war they evacuated over eight thousand wounded and casualty’s also nearly one thousand from behind enemy lines. The impact is not to the whole world or all of the united states it is to the people of America that there family members were wounded or killed and brought back to America to not be forgotten. it has only affected the ones that there family’s were affected by the war. …show more content…
They go in with the mind set that there only mission is to save the person that they went for. “august of 1943when 21 persons bailed out of a disabled c-46 over an uncharted jungle near the China-Burma bored (USAF pararesce). “So remote was the crash site that the only means of getting help to the survivors was by paradrop”(USAF pararescue). Lieutenant Colonel Don Fleckinger and two medical corpsmen volunteered for the assignment. This paradrop of medical corpsmen was the seed from which the concept of PARARESCUE was born (USAF pararescue). It gave the pararesue there start in Americas military. It makes it possible for our troops to come home safe. Also it gives more opportunities to the Americans they bring home where as with out them they could mave made the greatest sacrifice for there
They have been to every corner of the world. They save our servicemen and women every day risking there lives “that others may live”. In the Korean war they evacuated over eight thousand wounded and casualty’s also nearly one thousand from behind enemy lines. The impact is not to the whole world or all of the united states it is to the people of America that there family members were wounded or killed and brought back to America to not be forgotten. it has only affected the ones that there family’s were affected by the war. …show more content…
They go in with the mind set that there only mission is to save the person that they went for. “august of 1943when 21 persons bailed out of a disabled c-46 over an uncharted jungle near the China-Burma bored (USAF pararesce). “So remote was the crash site that the only means of getting help to the survivors was by paradrop”(USAF pararescue). Lieutenant Colonel Don Fleckinger and two medical corpsmen volunteered for the assignment. This paradrop of medical corpsmen was the seed from which the concept of PARARESCUE was born (USAF pararescue). It gave the pararesue there start in Americas military. It makes it possible for our troops to come home safe. Also it gives more opportunities to the Americans they bring home where as with out them they could mave made the greatest sacrifice for there