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.

PJ Dive Ops

Tech. Sgt. Kevin Baum, 304th Rescue Squadron pararescueman, (right) inspects Master Sgt. Dave Armstrong's scuba gear before he practices underwater hazardous device searches May 11, 2006. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Ruby Zarzyczny)

PJ Dive Ops

Staff Sgt. Chris Uriarte, 306th Rescue Squadron pararescueman is secured to a safety line as he prepare to dive to the hull of a ship docked at Swan Island, Ore. with Tech. Sgt. Dave Anderson, 304th Rescue Squadron pararescueman to practice underwater hazardous device searches May 11, 2006. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Ruby Zarzyczny)

PJ Dive Ops

Capt. Chris Bernard, 304th Rescue Squadron combat control officer, (far right) operates one of the squadron's Zodiac boats while public safety divers search for hazardous devices on the hull of the Ocean Pensedor, a freighter ship docked at Swan Island, Ore. May 11, 2006. The Air Force and Oregon and Washington State public safety divers work together to practice the techniques they learned in a Homeland Defense sponsored Underwater Hazardous Devices Search Course hosted at the 304th Rescue Squadron May 8-12, 2006. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Ruby Zarzyczny)

PJ Dive Ops

Staff Sgt. Chris Uriarte (left) and Master Sgt. Paul Schultz, (center) 306th Rescue Squadron pararescuemen from Davis-Monthan AFB, Ariz. and Staff Sgt. Josh Johnston, 304th Rescue Squadron from Portland, Ore. prepare to dive into the Willamette River to practice inspecting ships for hazardous devices at the hull of the Ocean Pensedor a freighter ship docked at Swan Island, Ore. May 11, 2006. They are attending a five-day Homeland Defense sponsored Underwater Hazardous Device Search course hosted by the 304th Rescue Squadron in Portland, Ore. May 8-12, 2006. (U.S. Air Force Photo/Ruby Zarzyczny)

Hurricane Katrina

Senior Master Sgt. James Sanchez looks up for the hoist to be lowered from an AIr Force Reserve helicopter hovering over a roof top in New Orleans Sept. 10. Assigned to the 306th Rescue Squadron at Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Ariz., Sergeant Sanchez is a combat veteran of Afghanistan and has saved 98 lives during the AIr Force Reserve's recue operations. (Air Force Photo by Senior Master Sgt. Elaine Mayo)

Hurricane Katrina

Tech. Sgt. Keith Berry, an Air Force Reserve Command pararescueman from the 304th Rescue Squadron in Portland, Ore., checks for overhanging tree limbs near his HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter as it returns to the skies over southern Mississippi after checking on Hurricane Katrina survivors. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bill Huntington

Hoist rescue

NEW ORLEANS -- Tech. Sgt. Lem Torres and a young boy are lifted to safety from the roof of the child's flooded home. The pararescueman is from 38th Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Ga., and is deployed to New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina search-and-rescue operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Manuel J. Martinez)

View from a hoist

NEW ORLEANS -- Scanning for signs of survivors, Tech. Sgt. Andrew Canfield keeps a close watch as the sun sets on the flooded city of New Orleans. Sergeant Canfield is a Reserve pararescueman working with a team of reservists and active duty Airmen conducting rescue missions across New Orleans. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Bill Huntington)