USAF 48th RQS / Night Riders / Black version Patch
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Saturday, September 29, 2012
Sikorski Military Search & Rescue Patch
Sikorski Military Search & Rescue Patch
Sikorsky helicopters have helped save an estimated 2 million lives since the first civilian helicopter rescue occurred on Nov. 29, 1945, using an R-5 Sikorsky aircraft.
Sikorsky salute the extraordinarily courageous men and women who endanger their own lives to save others wounded in combat, trapped by hurricanes, mud slides, earthquakes, avalanches or other natural disasters, and imperiled by accidents such as shipwrecks. For this reason, Sikorsky initiated the Winged-S Rescue Award Program in 1950 to honor all those who perform rescues flying a Sikorsky helicopter. Through this award, they gratefully acknowledge the humanitarian efforts of all pilots and crewmembers who put themselves in harm's way to save others and fulfill company founder Igor Sikorsky's vision of the helicopter as a unique and powerful life-saving instrument.
Sikorsky Military Rescue Patch. Patch is 4" length and 4" in width features the Winged-S award surrounded by a red cross shown in this patch. Very nice compliment to any Jacket, helmet or flight suit.
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Friday, September 28, 2012
USAF Pararescue / Cheshire Cat Patch
USAF Pararescue / ¨A Strange Situation, a Wild Occupation¨ - ¨We're All MAD, you know... ¨ Cheshire Cat Patch
This is a great and new version of the famous Pararescue Cheshire Cat patch, possible circa 2009/11. The Cheshire Cat is a fictional cat popularized by Lewis Carroll's depiction of it in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Due the crazy behavior of this character in this depiction, the PJ's adopted this cartoon as a logo for this patch to represent the dangerous nature of their missions which not everyone would be capable to go; only someone MAD...
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USAAF 7th Air Force / Land Rescue Team Patch
WWII USAAF 7th Air Force / Land Rescue Team Patch
Established on 19 October 1940 as the Hawaiian Air Force at Fort Shafter, Territory of Hawaii, the 7 AF was a United States Army Air Forces combat air force in the Pacific Theater of World War II, providing air defense of the Hawaiian Islands and engaging in combat operations primarily in the Central Pacific AOR. It was assigned units engaging enemy forces in the Gilbert Islands; Marshall Islands; Caroline Islands; Mariana Islands and in the last major battle of the Pacific War, the Battle of Okinawa. Returning to its defense role in Hawaii after the war, 7 AF became the primary USAF command and control organization in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
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Thursday, September 27, 2012
USAF 39th RQS Challenge Coin
USAF 39th Rescue Squadron / ¨Passin' Gas - Kickin' Ass¨ Challenge Coin
The 39th Rescue Squadron (39 RQS) is part of the 920th Rescue Wing at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida. It operates HC-130 Hercules aircraft conducting search and rescue missions.
The 39th conducted search, rescue, and escort missions in Japan and Korea during and following the Korean War and in Southeast Asia from, January 1967-April 1972. It also flew missions included refueling rescue helicopters and performing airborne command, control, and communications functions during combat rescue operations. The 39th again flew search and rescue in and around Japan from, 1992-1994. It has trained for combat search and rescue, performed search and rescue missions, and refueled rescue helicopters since 1997.
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USAF 551st FTS / Spec.Ops. & CSAR Training Challenge Coin
USAF 551st Flying Training Squadron / ¨The Best Teach the Rest¨ / Special Operations & Combat Rescue Training Award Challenge Coin
The 551st Special Operations Squadron (551 SOS) is a squadron of the United States Air Force. It is assigned to the 27th Special Operations Wing at Cannon AFB, New Mexico. The 551st had been based at Kirtland Air Force Base from 15 March 1976 until its deactivation on 10 May 2007. It was reactivated in 2009 and currently is assigned to the AFSOC and trains aircrews on the MC-130 and AC-130.
The 551st conducted helicopter training until it was inactivated in 2007. It is also responsible for special operations contingencies, exercises and humanitarian rescue missions. The Squadron conducted training on the Pave Low helicopter, but suspended these operations due to the looming retirement of the helicopter.
Friday, September 21, 2012
USAF 347th Rescue Wing / Maintenance Award Medal
USAF 347th Rescue Wing / Maintenance Award Nominee 2003 Medal
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Wednesday, September 19, 2012
USAF 56th RQS / Jolly Green / RAF Lakenheath Patch
USAF 56th RQS / Jolly Green / RAF Lakenheath Patch
The Royal Air Force station is located near the town of Lakenheath in Suffolk, England located 4.7 miles (7.6 km) north-east of Mildenhall, Suffolk and 8.3 miles west of Thetford, Norfolk. Although an RAF station, it hosts United States Air Force units and personnel. The host wing is the 48th Fighter Wing (48 FW), also known as the Liberty Wing, assigned to United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE). In addition to supporting three combat-ready squadrons of F-15E Strike Eagle and F-15C Eagle fighter aircraft, the Liberty Wing houses the 56th Rescue Squadron's HH-60G Combat Search and Rescue helicopters.
Monday, September 17, 2012
USAF 58th RQS Patch
USAF 58th RQS ¨Courage and Honor¨ Patch
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Friday, September 14, 2012
USAF PACAF / Western Pacific Rescue Coordination Center Patch
USAF PACAF / Western Pacific Rescue Coordination Center Patch
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Tuesday, September 11, 2012
USAF 347th Rescue Wing Gaggle Patch
USAF 347th Wing Gaggle Patch
This is the color version of the wing gaggle patch for the 347th Rescue Wing located at Moody AFB, GA. This patch depicts the Rescue Squadrons located there.
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USAF 66th RQS Patch
USAF 66th RQS / ¨Who's Your Buddy Now!!!¨ Patch
This is the color version of the FRIDAY squadron patch for the 66th Rescue Squadron.
USAF 66th RQS Patch
USAF 66th RQS Patch
A great version of the original patch with the ¨green feet¨ below the crest.
USAF 4460th Helicopter Squadron Patch
USAF 4460th Helicopter Squadron Patch
This is the small squadron patch for the 4460th Helicopter squadron that performs rescue missions. This squadron belongs to the 57th Wing (57 WG) is an operational unit of the USAF Warfare Center, stationed at Nellis AFB (gunnery range), Nevada; as well as support for the Mercury test site. It was located in Indian Springs, NV. The squadron was de-activated in 1988.
The 57 WG's mission is to provide well trained and well equipped combat forces ready to deploy into a combat arena to conduct integrated combat operations, including CSAR missions.
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Monday, September 3, 2012
TOML Foundation / PJ Support Poker Chip
That Others May Live Foundation / PJ Support Poker Chip
This is beautiful Poker Chip (The new generation of the famous challenge coins) related with the USAF Pararescue. Nice details, colors but the best is that with the purchase of this chip, you support the TOML endeavors in order to help children and families of fallen rescue heroes to have the opportunity for success in their lives, providing scholarships, career guidance and many more!
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USAF High-Altitude Airdrop Mission Support Center Patch
USAF High-Altitude Airdrop Mission Support Center Patch
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USAF 33rd RQS / Jolly Green Black Patch
USAF 33rd RQS / Jolly Green Black Patch
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USAF 40th Helicopter Flight Patch
USAF 40th Helicopter Flight Patch
Lineage. Constituted as 40 Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron, activated, and organized, on 21 Mar 1968. Inactivated on 31 Jan 1976. Activated on 1 Jul 1978. Inactivated on 31 Dec 1987. Redesignated as 40 Rescue Flight on 1 Apr 1993. Activated on 1 May 1993. Redesignated as: 40 Helicopter Flight on 1 May 1998; 40 Helicopter Squadron on 11 Oct 2005.
Assignments. 3 Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Group, 18 Mar 1968; 41 Aerospace Rescue and Recovery (later, 41 Rescue and Weather Reconnaissance) Wing, 20 Aug 1972-31 Jan 1976. 39 Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Wing, 1 Jul 1978-31 Dec 1987. 341 Operations Group, 1 May 1993-.
Operations. Search and rescue operations during the war in Vietnam. Participated in the evacuation of Phnom Penh, Cambodia, and Saigon, South Vietnam, when those cities fell to communist forces in 1975. After hostile forces seized the American merchant ship Mayaguez that same year, took part in an assault on Koh Tang Island, Cambodia. Rescue missions and exercises, 1978-1987 and 1993.
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USAF / Yankee - Air Pirate Patch Set
USAF / Yankee - Air Pirate Patch Set
An amazing patch set of the famous Air Pirate flag used by both pilots and PJ's since the early South East Asia conflicts. Actually used by the 33rd. RQS. Great set!
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USAF 33rd RQS / Green Feet Patch
USAF 33rd RQS / Green Feet Patch
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USAF 33rd RQS / Kermit The Frog / Jolly Green Patch Set
USAF 33rd RQS / Kermit The Frog / Jolly Green Patch Set
Computer made by Tiger Embroidery, Okinawa, Japan.
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USAF SERE School / Class 2012-02 Patch
USAF SERE School / Class 2012-02 Patch
The 336th Training Group, U.S. Air Force Survival School at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., provides Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (SERE) training primarily to aircrew members. Instruction concentrates on the principles, techniques, and skills necessary to survive in any environment and return with honor. Instructors assigned to the Survival School teach seven different courses to approximately 6,500 students annually. Five of the seven courses are taught at Fairchild. The other two courses are conducted at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla., and Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska.
The 22nd Training Squadron conducts combat Survival Training, which all Air Force aircrew members must attend. Forty-nine classes are taught per year, with each class lasting 19 days. The majority of the course is taught at Fairchild; however, six days are spent in the mountains of the Colville and Kaniksu National Forests, approximately 70 miles north of Fairchild. Instruction at Fairchild begins with classroom training on the physical and psychological stresses of survival. This is followed by hands-on training in post ejection procedures and parachute landing falls, various life supports of equipment procedures, survival medicine, and recovery device training. Students then transition to the mountains where they receive additional training including shelter construction, food procurement and preparation, day and night land navigation techniques, evasion travel and camouflage techniques, ground-to-air signals, and aircraft vectoring procedures. Finally, students are returned to Fairchild and given training in conduct after capture.
The SERE Training Instructor Course, conducted by the 66th Training Squadron, is also taught at Fairchild. This is a five-and-one-half-month program designed to teach future survival instructors how to instruct aircrew members to survive in any environment. The course includes instruction in basic survival, medical, navigation skills, overland travel, evasion, arctic survival, teaching techniques, rough land evacuation, coastal survival, tropics/river survival, and desert survival. Basic survival, navigation skills, overland travel, evasion, and teaching techniques are taught in the Colville National Forest; arctic training is conducted on Calispell Mountain near Cusick, Wash; desert training is conducted in an arid sand dune area near George, Wash.; rough land evacuation is conducted near Tum-Tum, Wash.; tropics/rivers survival is taught in the Olympic National Park, Wash.; and coastal survival is conducted on Tillamook Bay off the Oregon coast.
The third course conducted at Fairchild is the non-ejection water survival course, which trains aircrew members of non-parachute-equipped aircraft. The course lasts two days and includes instruction in signaling rescue aircraft, hazardous aquatic life, food and water procurement, medical aspects of water survival and life raft procedures. Group and personal survival are stressed throughout the course.
The fourth course is the resistance training orientation course. The 66th Training Squadron conducts the five-day course for U. S. Air Force SERE training instructors and designated Department of Defense personnel. The course covers the theories and principles needed to conduct Level C Code of Conduct resistance training laboratory instruction. Established by 1993 Year of Training initiatives and the new career field education and training plan for SERE training instructors, course graduation is mandatory for upgrade to the 5 skill level.
The final course conducted by Fairchild is the SERE training instructor, 7-level upgrade course. This 19-day course, conducted annually, provides 5-level instructors with advanced survival training in barren arctic, barren desert, jungle, and open-ocean environments. Training is conducted at Eagle Summit, Alaska (arctic); Yuma Proving Grounds, Arizona (desert); Schofield Barracks Military Reservation, Oahu, Hawaii (jungle); and the Gulf of Mexico based out of Pensacola NAS, Florida (open ocean). Instructors spend three to four days in each environment learning and applying skills required for surviving with minimum gear and support.
Detachment 1, 66th Training Squadron at Eielson AFB, Alaska, teaches Arctic Survival Training. This is a five-day course conducted from October through March, and it is designed for aircrews assigned to flying duties in the northern regions. Instruction concentrates on food and water procurement, thermal shelter construction, firecraft, and various signaling techniques. This course prepares individuals to cope with the harsh arctic environment and familiarizes the student with cold weather survival equipment and procedures.
Detachment 2, 66th Training Squadron at NAS Pensacola, Florida, conducts a second water survival course offered by the Survival School. This course lasts four days and simulates in-flight over water emergency. The course centers it's training on aircrews, which utilize parachuting as the primary means of escape. Instruction includes initial academic training, parachute equipment procedures, parachute drag training, post egress and recovery training which includes a deep water landing, and a one to two hour raft familiarization exercise.
Each summer, the group also supports the United States Air Force Academy in the conduct of their survival and evasion training program. Additionally, survival instructors train approximately 2,200 Air Force Reserve Officers' Training Corps cadets at different field training encampments throughout the United States each summer. Approximately 1,200 Air Force Academy cadets are instructed in three 21-day programs.
Survival personnel also conduct survival presentations to hundreds of civilian organizations including Boy and Girl Scouts; Civil Air Patrol, and local schools. In 2003, Survival School instructors performed more than 100 public appearances and tours, taking the survival message to more than 15,000 civilians.
"RETURN WITH HONOR," the motto of the Survival School, is symbolic of the school's dedication to providing lifesaving training.
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USAF 4440th TFTG Search & Rescue / Aggressor Patch
USAF Search & Rescue / Aggressor Patch
I think it was used while the Exercise ¨Cope Thunder¨ conducted in 1976 until Clark AB. Other resources told me is from Nellis AFB. It is the 4440th Tactical Fighter Training Group used by Aggressors in the Search and Rescue phase of Red Flag. Anyways, looks theatre made in the early 70's.
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USAF 33rd RQS / Jolly Green Patch
USAF 33rd RQS / Jolly Green Patch
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USAF TAC Sea Survival School / Life Support Equipment Patch
USAF TAC Sea Survival School / Life Support Equipment Patch
80th Flying Training Wing at Sheppard AFB, Texas.
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USAF 40th ARRS / Aerial Recovery Patch
USAF 40th ARRS / Aerial Recovery Patch
Probably the Fulton Recovery System "SKYHOOK" on C-130s during Vietnam era.
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USAF Military Airlift Command Patch
USAF Military Airlift Command Patch
The Military Airlift Command (MAC) is an inactive United States Air Force Major Command of the USAF which was headquartered at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. It was constituted on 1 January 1966 and active until the end of the Cold War, when the Air Force table of organization was revised. Inactivated on 1 June 1992, its personnel and equipment were reassigned to the new Air Mobility Command.
In addition MAC continued the missions of the former MATS Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service (ARRS); Air Weather Service (ARS).
The ill-fated Operation Eagle Claw Iranian rescue mission in April 1980 led to a resurgence of emphasis on long-range special operations teams whose mission would be primarily to conduct operations such as the rescue of hostages. A new special operations force was created under the Ninth Air Force, and based at Hurlburt Field, Florida, but the mission soon transferred to the Military Airlift Command where it became the Twenty-Third Air Force on February 10, 1983.
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USAF ARRS / Pregnant Angel Patch
USAF Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service / Pregnant Angel Patch
Issued circa 1967, worn in SEA, RFU OG Shirt. Made in Japan or Taiwan.
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USAF ARRS / King Patch
USAF ARRS / Callsing ¨King¨ Patch
Made in Japan. Circa 1960's.
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TOML Foundation Patch
That Others May Live Foundation Patch
A great way to support TOML Foundation.
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USAF 563rd RQG Patch
USAF 563rd Rescue Group Patch
Patch for the 563 RQG flying the HC-130P and HH-60G out of Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.
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USAF 39th ARRW Patch
USAF 39 Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Wing / Dedicated to Life Patch
Probably from early 70's.
USAF 66th RQS / Jolly Green Patch
USAF 66th RQS / Jolly Green Patch
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USAF AFSOC / PJ / TOML Angel Patch
USAF AFSOC / PJ / TOML Angel Patch
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USAF 33rd RQS / TGIF Patch
USAF 33rd RQS / ¨More Dudes, Less Chicks¨ Patch
Also called ¨TGIF (Thanks God is Friday) Patch¨, this is a very hard to find patch. Made in Korea
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