Download or read book Pararescue Jumpers written by Lee Slater and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2016-01-01 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title introduces readers to Pararescue Jumpers. Engaging text exploresthe Pararescue Jumpers's history, key missions, role in the US military, major accomplishments, required training, weapons, gear, technology, and other fascinating information. Qualifications needed to become a Pararescue Jumper, training such as the Pararescue Physical Ability and Stamina Test and the Pipeline, the life of a Pararescue Jumper, andcutting-edge technology and weapons are covered.Sidebars, infographics, action photos, maps, and a glossary enhance readers' understanding of this topic. Additional features include a table of contents, an index, a timeline and extreme facts.Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard Library is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.
Download or read book Pararescue Jumper written by Nancy Robinson Masters and published by Cherry Lake. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn what it takes to become a pararescue jumper in the U.S. military.
Download or read book None Braver written by Michael Hirsh and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-09-07 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From award-winning journalist and combat veteran Michael Hirsh comes the thrilling inside story of the Air Force’s pararescue operations in Afghanistan. The first journalist to be embedded with an Air Force combat unit in the War on Terrorism, Hirsh flew from Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, with the 71st Rescue Squadron to their expeditionary headquarters at a secret location in Central Asia. Unparalleled access to the PJs, as well as to the courageous men and women who fly them where they have to go, often under enemy fire, allowed Hirsh to uncover incredible stories of courage.
Download or read book Never Quit Young Adult Adaptation written by Jimmy Settle and published by St. Martin's Griffin. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young adult adaptation of Never quit: from Alaskan wilderness rescues to Afghanistan: firefights as an elite Special Ops PJ.
Download or read book Guardian Angel written by William F. Sine and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A fabulous read, filled with heroism, history, and hi-jinks, as author William F. Sine recounts his life as an Air Force Pararescue Jumper” (Readers’ Favorite). US Air Force Pararescue is the most skillful and capable rescue force in the world, taking on some of the most dangerous rescue missions imaginable. PJs (short for para-jumpers), are members of an elite unit whose commando skills are so wide-reaching they often seem like something out of science fiction. They routinely tackle perilous operations that are beyond the capabilities of other rescue organizations, and sometimes dare the seemingly impossible. Since their inception in 1947, PJs have saved more than thirty thousand lives. They can pluck near-frozen climbers off jagged mountaintops and recover shot-down jet pilots stranded deep in hostile territory. In the dead of night, the PJs parachute into ominous, black, twenty-foot-tall waves to save distressed seamen, and they brave the cruelest and most desolate deserts to recover victims. US Air Force pararescuemen have played a prominent role in every armed conflict since the Korean War, rescuing thousands of soldiers from behind enemy lines. Guardian Angel provides a rare glimpse at a PJ’s mind-blowing adventures. You follow Sgt. Sine’s trek across exotic lands and share his encounters with mysterious cultures. Learn what it takes to lower from a helicopter onto the slippery decks of storm-tossed ships to rescue dying sailors. Feel what it’s like to be caught in the middle of a bomb blast so powerful that it tears high-rise buildings in half, and flattens armored vehicles hundreds of yards away. Soar high above towering jungle trees and experience the danger of swinging on a slim cable below a helicopter, while performing a mid-air rescue of a pilot, dangling from his chute a hundred feet above a mountain slope. Go to war in Afghanistan and parachute onto a nocturnal battlefield, surrounded by land mines, to help a mortally wounded soldier. This is a deadly serious business: When things go wrong, they can go terribly wrong. Aircraft crash into mountainsides, killing all onboard, while some PJs live through horrendous helicopter crashes only to struggle with freezing temperatures, snapped limbs and torn flesh in a desperate fight for survival. This book presents true stories of uncommon courage told from the perspective of the actual men in the arena. PJs belong to an exclusive brotherhood and forge unbreakable bonds of loyalty, commitment, and sacrifice. They do these things for their country, to protect their brothers in arms, and to honor their motto: “That Others May Live.”
Download or read book That Others May Live written by Jack Brehm and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2001 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book One Month Twenty Days and a Wake Up written by Chuck Jackson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-18 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Month, 20 Days, and a Wake-Up, follows a young man's account of his four years serving in the Air Force. This novel follows him and his best friend as they volunteer to cross train into the elite career field of Pararescue. They spend 14 months of grueling training where only the best and those with the desire to push themselves to the limit, become a PJ. When he graduates and proudly wears the burgundy beret, he knows they will deploy him Vietnam. The book follows his 13 months in Vietnam where he learns the horror of war and how he must adapt to not only keep his sanity, also return alive. His story has several of the rescue missions he and his PJ brothers complete where not all the rescued return alive. When he faces personal bereavement, he must reach deep to restore his integrity, and keep his oath, "These things I do, that others may live."
Download or read book Pararescue It S a Fine Madness written by Martin F. Caldwell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-02-25 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the earliest days of the earliest wars, there have been those Who would place themselves in harms way to save the lives of both comrades and total strangers. None of them, however, have been as dedicated to saving others pararescue jumpers. In the mid 1960s, airmen Joe Garvy and Lee Davis have entered training, along with many other recruits, to become pararescue jumpers. Being a PJ will mean constantly putting themselves into life-or-death situations in the jungles of Vietnamand thats assuming they can even make it through the training. This novel follows a group of young men as they make the journey into the career field of pararescue. During this all-consuming time, they discover how far they can push themselves as they complete eighteen months of training and become members of the pararescue brotherhood. They graduate from training dedicated to the simple creed: these things we do that others may live.
Download or read book Pararescue Jumpers written by Sarah Eason and published by Mission: Special Ops. This book was released on 2021 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Air Force pararescue jumper Keith Berry and his team fly into New Orleans and save those trapped by Hurricane Katrina in this graphic adventure. Includes information on pararescue jumpers and their equipment.
Download or read book Pararescue Jumpers written by Sarah Eason and published by Bear Claw Books. This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: U.S. Air Force pararescue jumper Keith Berry and his team fly into New Orleans and save those trapped by Hurricane Katrina in this graphic adventure. Includes information on pararescue jumpers and their equipment.
Download or read book Never Quit written by Jimmy Settle and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The epic memoir of an Alaskan pararescue jumper, Special Forces Operator, and decorated war hero. “That Others May Live” is a mantra that defines the fearless men of Alaska’s 212th Pararescue Unit, the PJs, one of the most elite military forces on the planet. Whether they are rescuing citizens injured and freezing in the Alaskan wilderness or saving wounded Rangers and SEALS in blazing firefights at war, the PJs are the least known and most highly trained of America’s warriors. Never Quit is the true story of how Jimmy Settle, an Alaskan shoe store clerk, became a Special Forces Operator and war hero. After being shot in the head during a dangerous high mountain operation in the rugged Watapur Valley in Afghanistan, Jimmy returns to battle with his teammates for a heroic rescue, the bullet fragments stitched over and still in his skull. In a cross between a suicide rescue mission and an against-all-odds mountain battle, his team of PJs risk their lives again in an epic firefight. When his helicopter is hit and begins leaking fuel, Jimmy finds himself in the worst possible position as a rescue specialist—forced to leave members from his own team behind. Jimmy will have to risk everything to get back into the battle and bring back his brothers. From death-defying Alaskan wilderness training, wild rescues, and vicious battles against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, this is an explosive special operations memoir unlike any that has come before, and the true story of a man from humble beginnings who became an American hero.
Download or read book Inside Pararescue written by Howard Phillips and published by 'The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc'. This book was released on 2021-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No matter how advanced a military is or how intelligent its members are, the reality is that missions will sometimes fail. The Pararescue units of the U.S. Air Force are responsible for extracting soldiers who are gravely injured or trapped behind enemy lines. Pulled from the Air Force’s Special Warfare division, these elite soldiers are not only skilled medics, they’re also accomplished survivalists. In this title, readers get a glimpse of what it takes to become a member of a Pararescue squad. The accessible text is paired with engaging sidebars to explain the history and modern operations of this unit.
Download or read book Special Ops Search and Rescue Operations written by Carol Hand and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2014-12-15 with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroic combat search and rescue work of the United States Air Force’s pararescue jumpers, or PJs, is something worth knowing about. After all, these courageous PJs are the first in line to find and rescue fallen soldiers and civilians in the most dangerous of war zones—often risking their own lives in the process. In these pages, the basic principles, history, and structure of American combat search and rescue teams is thoroughly covered, with particular focus on true stories of PJ rescue missions and the equipment, vehicles, and weapons they use.
Download or read book Pararescue Operations Techniques and Procedures written by United States Air Force and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONTENTS Introduction Operational/Training Restrictions Airmanship Static Line Parachute Operations Military Freefall Parachute Operations Rigging Alternate Method-Zodiac (RAMZ) Procedures Tree Climbing and Letdown Procedures Rescue Jumpmaster Procedures Alternate Insertion and Extraction Methods Cargo Aerial Delivery Procedures Dive Operations Land Navigation Individual Combat Tactics Small Team Tactics Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) Operations Mission Planning Medical Communications Procedures Attachments Glossary of References and Supporting Information -- D-Ring Threading -- Riser Tie-Off -- Fixed Target Procedures -- Moving Target Procedures -- Crosswind Procedures
Download or read book Taking Fire written by Kevin O'Rourke and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2013-09-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American military special operations forcesÑRangers, SEALs, and othersÑhave become a well-recognized and highly respected part of our popular culture. But whom do these elite warriors look to in their times of greatest need: when wounded on the battlefield, cut off deep behind enemy lines, or adrift in the expanse of the worldÕs oceans? They look skyward, hoping to catch a glimpse of their own personal guardian angel: a U.S. Air Force pararescue jumper (PJ) who lives, and sometimes dies, by the motto that others may live. Taking Fire provides an up-close look into the heroism and mystique of this little known segment of the Air Force Special Tactics community by focusing on one of the most dramatic rescues of the Vietnam War. It was June 1972 and Capt. Lynn Aikman is returning from a bombing mission over North Vietnam when his F-4 Phantom is jumped by an enemy MiG and shot down. He and his backseater Tom Hanton eject from their crippled aircraft, but Hanton lands near a village and is quickly captured by local militia. Badly injured during the ejection, Aikman lands some distance from the village, and there is a chance that he can be recovered if American rescuers can reach him before the enemy does. Now on the ground and drifting in and out of consciousness, Captain Aikman looks up and suddenly sees his guardian angel in the form of USAF Pararescue Jumper Chuck McGrath. As Sergeant McGrath is preparing to hook the downed pilot to a hoist line, he sees it fall to the ground. Hostile fire on the hovering Jolly Green Giant rescue helicopter has damaged the hoist mechanism causing the operator to cut the line. While circling A-1 Skyraiders strafe the militia to keep them away from Aikman and McGrath, the helicopter crew races to come up with a plan. ItÕs getting dark, and theyÕll only have one chance. Taking Fire is an exciting, highly dramatic story of life and death over North Vietnam. Much more than a chronicle the events of 27 June 1972, the book gives the reader an up-close look at the little known world of the U.S. Air ForceÕs elite aerial rescue force.
Download or read book Cover Me written by Catherine Mann and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Nobody writes to-die-for military heroes like Catherine Mann!" — Suzanne Brockmann, New York Times bestselling author of Tall, Dark and Devastating It should have been a simple mission... Pararescueman Wade Rocha fast ropes from the back of a helicopter into a blizzard to save a climber stranded on an Aleutian Island, but Sunny Foster insists she can take care of herself just fine... But when it comes to passion, nothing is ever simple... With the snowstorm kicking into overdrive, Sunny and Wade hunker down in a cave and barely resist the urge to keep each other warm... until they discover the frozen remains of a horrific crime... Unable to trust the local police force, Sunny and Wade investigate, while their irresistible passion for each other gets them more and more dangerously entangled... "When you read Catherine Mann you... get nonstop action, nail-biting suspense, and heart-stopping romance." —The Romance Studio
Download or read book Apollo s Warriors written by Michael E. Haas and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998-05 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a fascinating insider's view of U.S.A.F. special operations, this volume brings to life the critical contributions these forces have made to the exercise of air & space power. Focusing in particular on the period between the Korean War & the Indochina wars of 1950-1979, the accounts of numerous missions are profusely illustrated with photos & maps. Includes a discussion of AF operations in Europe during WWII, as well as profiles of Air Commandos who performed above & beyond the call of duty. Reflects on the need for financial & political support for restoration of the forces. Bibliography. Extensive photos & maps. Charts & tables.
