Pararescueman Research Paper

A call comes in at three in the morning saying a soldier has been hurt in battle and is facing a life-threatening injury, the timer starts now. With shots being fired at sometimes all hours of the night and this can be a very real event to people facing war, soldier or civilian. Pararescuemen are trained to risk their lives on the battlefield to save others which is such a noble act and they do it every single day. Time is of the essence when trying to save someone from a life-threatening injury occurring on the battlefield. Training to be a pararescueman consists of many combat scenarios that the troops can encounter on the battlefield while rescuing someone. The training somewhat works as team building activities that help draw the team closer together which will help tremendously out in the field. “This training is paying off, too. Since arriving in August, the current rotation of 83rd ERQS combat rescue pilots and PJs have completed 149 combat sorties, saving nearly 20 lives.” (Burks). The combat scenarios include but are not limited to running through the current fire-fight going on to help the MASH unit that could be in the area get bodies to the hospital and flying
helicopters in mountain ranges to help individual soldiers, teams, units, and/or sometimes even civilians. Once the call comes in that three soldiers are down on the battlefield, it is go time. The same idea applies to when the last alarm in the morning rings and it is time to get up and start the day except in the pararescue line of work it means you now have one hour to go save this human life by risking the lives of the members of the team. "If we can get someone back to the combat support hospital within sixty minutes of the injury, they have an extremely good chance of surviving" (Burks). However, the pararescue team may not get there in that golden hour of time because they had to travel very far distance to recover the injured solider or soldiers. All the training in the world and all the experience on the battlefield cannot compare to the feeling of knowing that just doing a job had saved a mother, father, sister, or brother.
All because a pararescueman team got to an injured Soldier or soldiers in that golden hour they get to live the rest of their life granted it may not be the best but they're still alive. More often than not a pararescueman should be given things for preventing a soldier coming home in a casket versus just coming home from being injured on the battlefield. Not all people realize how great pararescuemen truly are, in helping our soldiers continue to fight for the freedoms that some enjoy and that some are fighting to start enjoying. These great servicemen and women's contributions should not ever be
overlooked.