TWO STORY JELLY JUMPERS SERIES
"Our medical training takes about seven months, with classes every day non-stop," said Senior Airman Asher Woodhouse, 64th ERQS pararescueman, who has spent the last two years accomplishing a series of tasks working toward his five-level certification. military special operations community.Īlong with the physical preparation, including ruck marches, mountaineering, scuba diving, rock climbing, all-terrain vehicle operations, hand-to-hand combat and land navigation, PJs participate in extensive medical-trauma training, which eventually rewards them with a nationally-recognized paramedic certification. Air Force Special Forces operatives, whose training program possesses the highest drop-out rate in the entire U.S. After completion of IFAM, and under supervision, they can perform all tasks civil, combat or any other situation that presents itself - they are ready to deploy. "Once our PJs are out of the pararescue pipeline, they are ready to start the initial familiarization training.
Bob "Scarecrow" Roberts, a pararescue jumper with the 64th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron at Joint Base Balad. "Readiness is a major Air Force term that a lot of conventional military folks strive for - to be combat-ready," said Tech Sgt. It's a crisis-action training scenario - one of the many exercises employed by Air Force pararescuemen, the only members of the Department of Defense assigned the primary mission of recovery and medical treatment of personnel in friendly and hostile environments.
The pararescuemen load their patient onto the litter, carrying her off to the safety of an awaiting vehicle.īut the mission isn't over this mission never really ends.
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