Portraits in Courage features pararescue specialist

Staff Sgt. Daniel Warren of the 308th Rescue Squadron, Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., flies on a mission in Afghanistan on April 11, 2010. Warren, one of 18 Airmen featured in the latest issue of Portraits in Courage, deployed to Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, in 2010 as a Guardian Angel team member of the 33rd Expeditionary Rescue Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo)

Air Force reservists train in Arizona for deployment to Afghanistan

A 920th Rescue Wing HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter pierces the desert sky over the mountains in southern Arizona. Air Force Reserve Command aircrews and maintainers from Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., worked day and night July 12-25, 2008, at Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz., to gain high-altitude experience prior to their upcoming deployment to Afghanistan. The country is known for having the roughest terrain with some of the highest mountains in the world. (U.S. Air Force photo/Capt. Cathleen Snow)

NASA Emergency Exercise

Air Force Reserve Pararescuemen from the 920th Rescue Wing exercise their medical skills with NASA firefighters during a Mode 7 Exercise February 13.

NASA Emergency Exercise

Air Force Reserve pararescuemen from the 920th Rescue Wing out of Patrick Air Force Base, Fla. receive astronauts from NASA emergency firefighters during a Mode 7 Egress Exercise at Cape Canaveral February 13. The exercise is one of eight possible space shuttle emergency senarios that rescue crews train for.

From Trainees to PJs

Pararescumen trainees from the 342nd Training Squadron on board a 920th Rescue Wing HC-130 wait for the order to jump during the water jump portion of Air Operations training at Patrick Air Forcc Base, Fla., Oct. 13. Twenty trainees and 13 instructors participated in this round of training

Rescue Wing prepares for Space Shuttle Launch

MSgt. Troy Long, 920th pararescueman, preps medical equipment on an HH-60G prior to suppoting the launch of Space Shuttle Atlantis.