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Provide Comfort II . The squadron deployed three HH-60G Pave Hawks and 95 personnel and accomplished 315 combat sorties during this deployment. It trained for combat search and rescue and
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in the mountains east of Bagram, Afghanistan. Upon its return to the United States in August, the unit deployed to
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306th Rescue Squadron PJs evacuate simulated casualty to 305th Rescue Squadron
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Citizen Airmen: a History of the Air Force Reserve, 1946–1994
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1247:. Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program.
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960:Stamford
661:Aircraft
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415:Gulf War
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