Search and Rescue Careers

[KiwiBird]

I am applying to USAFA, USCGA, and USNA this year. What are some jobs and their descriptions for officers that would be directly involved with search and rescue?

 

[HueyNation]

Air Force:

Combat Rescue Officer (CRO)

Combat Rescue Officer - Requirements and Benefits - U.S. Air Force

Responsible for organizing and strategizing recovery operations, Combat Rescue Officers provide the insights and skill essential for rescue missions to succeed.

www.airforce.com

Rescue Pilot (11H)
https://afreserve.com/rescue-pilot (website is from AF Reserve, but the Active Duty side has plenty of the same thing)

 

[bopper]

What military search and rescue jobs are there besides USAF Pararescue?

Answer (1 of 3): Navy runs CSAR operations, as does the Air National Guard, and of course the Coast Guard does more rescue ops than other services combined every year.

www.quora.com

 

[retiredradar]

Coast Guard does Search and rescue via air and sea.

 

[UHBlackhawk]

Wartime SAR is primarily an Air Force job though we did do some in the 160th.
The Air Force also handle some peacetime. Some Air Guard units specialize in it.
Peacetime over water the Coast Guard.
The Navy use to have two dedicated Special Ops units that did this, one on each coast, but I believe they were disbanded.

 

[Devil Doc]

Here’s a short article on the Marine’s Pedro SAR 46s who closed up shop in 2015.

MCAS Cherry Point conducts final DoD H-46 flight

With the heavy thump-whump of spinning rotors, the end of an era was signaled at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, with the take-off of the Department of Defense’s last flying

www.marines.mil

 

[LineInTheSand]

Anything around the U.S. is Coast Guard, war or peace. In the Coast Guard, any ship your on COULD be involved in SAR. Air assets do a lot of it. Even on land, there are SAR controllers directing the SAR patterns from districts.

 

[LineInTheSand]

We should remember the best scene in Top Gun was a Coast Guard SAR scene.