55th Rescue Squadron, US Air Force
55TH RESCUE SQUADRON, US AIR FORCE
History: Constituted as 55 Air Rescue Squadron on 17 Oct 1952. Activated on 14 Nov 1952. Discontinued, and inactivated, on 18 Jun 1960. Activated on 10 May 1961. Organized on 18 Jun 1961. Redesignated as: 55 Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron on 8 Jan 1966; 55 Special Operations Squadron on 1 Mar 1988. Inactivated on 11 Nov 1999. Redesignated as 55 Rescue Squadron on 22 Jan 2003. Activated on 14 Mar 2003.
Trained and performed rescue and recovery missions, 1952–1960. Supported manned spacecraft recovery operations, Jun 1961–Jan 1966. Provided rescue coverage for Apollo missions to the moon in the early 1970s. Special operations missions, Mar 1988–Sep 1999. Combat search and rescue in Panama, 20 Dec 1989–14 Jan 1990, Southwest Asia, Jan–Mar 1991, and again in Southwest Asia and Kosovo, 1998-1999. Provided rapidly deployable combat search and rescue forces to theater commanders worldwide; deployed aircraft and crews in response to national disasters, domestic search and rescue, and MEDEVAC missions, 2003-.
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The Emblem was approved on 12 December 1988.
Literature: Image from Wikimedia Commons. Information from https://www.afhra.af.mil/
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