Combat search and rescue

It's a really good breakdown, and then we'll go ahead and talk about it amongst ourselves.

The execution of this combat search and rescue, or CSAR, is nothing short of extraordinary.

Let's go back to where it all begins on Thursday, right? You have the lucky shot by Iranians, and they hit our F-15E strike eagle, and the plane goes

down.

So it's not a secret, uh, is the think it's called ghost murmur where they can track a person's heartbeat and that's what helped them locate this pilot because he was kind of hiding up in the mountains.

And then yeah, definitely PJs on there and combat rescue officers.

They, you know, if you look at some of the videos come in low and fast and that is a lot of what we train for specifically because you can get under some of the anti-air type of detection and it's harder for people to shoot at you when you're whizzing past them um but i'm sure they got lots of fire i think a couple of guys got injured but they ended up being successful which is you know like i said the original mission set of pj and one of the dream missions that we uh all wanted to have so they uh did a great job and i'm sure we'll be hearing a lot more of that i think they're just waiting for some of that stuff to obviously be declassified and do all that so No, it was awesome for the dudes for sure.

Yeah.

And, you know, it wasn't really until I slowed down after PA school, basically.

And I was just like seeing patients working a normal job ish.

um that that stuff really started to affect me and i thought about um all the situations that i was in and you know how uh lucky i was to be there and all the people that weren't and you know that's from what i've seen uh from You know, all of my peers that were in pararescue, combat rescue or doing similar jobs, you know, that's when the suicide rate starts to tick up is once you're everything, the dust settles and, you know, you just have time to think about that.

Then you try to drown it out with alcohol or whatever their flavor of, you know, medicine is at that point.

Yeah

... uh, you know, we, we've been rehearsing before w- while we were in stateside for CSAR missions, so.

How about Chalk 2? What did you guys get briefed on?

Yeah, it was the same thing.

Yeah.

That, that Neil had fallen out of an aircraft.

But all we had known was we, an individual had fallen out of an aircraft, and that we needed to stand up CSAR.

And so at that time, you know, they all woke us up.

And my team, I was battle captain for about six months on one of the rotations, and literally they asked for two things.

They wanted Pedro on medevac, which is the, you know, Air Force CSAR.

And they wanted marine Cobras on on on fixed wing close air support, because, you know, every asset has its own unique capabilities.

But it's hard to see and understand the battle space when you're at 5000 feet.

Play the tape.

This is, this is the pilot who was in the front seat getting rescued by the, uh, CSAR assets, HH-160s more than likely, which I believe...

I found they, I think they were us.

I think I saw the, the refueling probe.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Um, dude, [sighs] first of all, you gotta give credit to the CSAR community from-

Oh, yeah

Let me crap up in my crispy water here.

Let's talk CSAR.

Now, listen, we're going to do a bigger event.

We're going to do a bigger podcast.

This is a huge deal.

No hyperbole necessary.

The fact that you actually have Air Force special operators that are going on talking about PR and CSAR is shocking.

You should be absolutely shocked by the fact that you actually get to see PR SMEs and not just, you know, no shots of the SEALs, no shots of Green Berets, no shots of, you know, folks that have worked in the communities.

That's-

That's why the PJs took the entire CSAR-

That's so true

... or CASEVAC mission.