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FORT BLISS, Texas -- An HH-60G Pave Hawk makes an approach during a live-fire training exercise here April 9. The exercise was part of the 57th Wing Weapons School intensive five and one-half month training program. The HH-60 is assigned to the 66th Rescue Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald)

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FORT BLISS, Texas -- An HH-60G Pave Hawk makes an approach during a live-fire training exercise here April 9. The exercise was part of the 57th Wing Weapons School intensive five and one-half month training program. The HH-60 is assigned to the 66th Rescue Squadron at Nellis Air Force Base, Nev. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Kevin J. Gruenwald)

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Combat rescue

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Airman 1st Class Melody Boates checks the main rotor on an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter. Airman Boates is a flight engineer with 64th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron here, and she is deployed from the 41st Rescue Squadron at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Prentice Colter)

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Combat rescue

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Staff Sgt. Scott Dickover inspects an HH-60 Pave Hawk helicopter. Sergeant Dickover is a crew chief with the 64th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron here, and he is deployed from the 41st Helicopter Maintenance Unit at Moody Air Force Base, Ga. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Prentice Colter)

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Helicopter secure

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- Airman 1st Class Melody Boates checks an HH-60G Pave Hawk here April 8 before a flight supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom. Airman Boates is a flight engineer with the 64th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Prentice Colter)

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MH-53J Pave Low IIIE

1960'S -- MH-53J Pave Low IIIE from the 20th Special Operations Squadron, 16th Special Operations Wing, Hurlburt Field, Fla., expends flares over the Atlantic Ocean to demonstrate its defensive capabilities. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Rose Reynolds)

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Exercise, exercise

HOHENFELS ARMY AIR FIELD, Germany -- Senior Master Sgt. Robert Henson jumps from an HH-60G Pave Hawk here April 1. Sergeant Henson is the operations superintendent for the 786th Security Forces Squadron at Sembach Air Base, Germany, and is participating in a joint combat search and rescue exercise. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Edward Braly)

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Drop zone

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- An Air Force pararescueman drops from an HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter assigned to the 64th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron on March 30. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon II)

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Secure zone

BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq -- An HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter from the 64th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron comes to pickup pararescuemen here March 30. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon II)

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To the rescue

NAVAL AIR STATION KEFLAVIK, Iceland- -- A HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter from the 56th Rescue Squadron provides heavy lift/sling load support to the fishing trawler, the Baldvin Thorsteinsson. The 56th Rescue Squadron, along with members of the 85th Maintenance Squadron, recently played a key role in the recovery efforts of the fishing trawler, which had been stranded on a sand bar off Iceland's southern coast for three days. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Anthony Iusi)

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MH-53 Pave Low helicopter

1960's -- MH-53 Pave Low helicopter, and Special Operations, 20 S.O.S. The Pave Low's mission is low-level, long-range, undetected penetration into denied areas, day or night, in adverse weather, for infiltration, exfiltration and resupply of special operations forces. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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Snow lift

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. -- A pilot is hoisted up into a HH-60 PaveHawk helicopter during winter survival extraction training here Feb. 7. The pilot and helicopter crew are from the Air Force Reserve’s 305th Rescue Squadron at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. David Neve)

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Cold-weather capture

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE, N.D. (AFPN) -- A UH-1N Huey helicopter from the 54th Helicopter Flight takes off after the termination of a recapture exercise Jan. 14 at a missile launch facility near here. The exercise tested the base's ability to handle intruders at the launch facility. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Jocelyn Rich)

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Exercise Patriot Coyote

1990's -- Members of a pararescue team leave an HH-3E Jolly Green Giant helicopter to begin a search and rescue mission during Exercise Patriot Coyote. (U.S. Air Force Photo by Staff Sgt. Steve McGill)

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Operation Provide Comfort

1990's -- Airmen and Kurdish refugees unload food supplies from a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter during Operation Provide Comfort, an Allied effort to aid the refugees who fled the forces of Saddam Hussein in Northern Iraq.

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UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters

UH-60A Black Hawk helicopters prepare to takeoff as the 82nd Aviation Brigade relocates in the desert during Operation Desert Shield.

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Vietnam War

MEKONG DELTA, Vietnam -- An Air Force crew from the 211th Helicopter Squadron fly on a combat assault mission July 18, 1970 in a UH-1 Helicopter over southeastern Asia. (Department of Defense photo by Sgt. Robert W. Ingianni)

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CV-22

FILE PHOTO -- Futuristic in its design, the CV-22 Osprey looks like a helicopter on the ground with two sets of propeller rotors on each wing tip. Once airborne, the rotors tilt forward so the aircraft resembles a dragonfly with turboprops. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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MH-53J Pave Low

FILE PHOTO -- The MH-53J Pave Low III heavy-lift helicopter is the largest, most powerful and technologically advanced helicopter in the Air Force inventory. The terrain-following and terrain-avoidance radar, forward-looking infrared sensor, inertial navigation system with global positioning system, along with a projected map display enable the crew to follow terrain contours and avoid obstacles, making low-level penetration possible. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Leslie D. Benito)

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Pave Low III

FILE PHOTO -- The MH-53J Pave Low III heavy-lift helicopter is the largest, most powerful and technologically advanced helicopter in the Air Force inventory. The terrain-following and terrain-avoidance radar, forward-looking infrared sensor, inertial navigation system with global positioning system, along with a projected map display enable the crew to follow terrain contours and avoid obstacles, making low-level penetration possible. (U.S. Air Force photo)

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