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                <div class="image-caption">An HH-60W Jolly Green II assigned to the 33rd Rescue Squadron arrives at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Jan. 26, 2024. The HH-60W is designed from the ground up with integrated mission systems and features new multi-function displays to provide pilots with critical flight information. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jonathan R. Sifuentes)</div>
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                <div class="image-caption">U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Erik Nestor, left, 718th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron HH-60 avionics craftsman and U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Anthony Aguon, 718th AMXS HH-60 avionics journeyman, conduct offloading procedures on an HH-60W at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Jan. 26, 2024. The 718th AMXS is a vital component to HH-60 operations, performing routine maintenance operations to ensure HH-60 operators are safe and capable of conducting emergency response operations. (U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jonathan R. Sifuentes)</div>
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                <div class="image-caption">A pulley system is rigged to offload an HH-60W Jolly Green II, assigned to the 33rd Rescue Squadron, at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Jan. 26, 2024. The HH-60W is designed for mission critical operations to include personnel recovery, humanitarian missions, civil search and rescue, disaster relief, medical evacuation, and non-combatant evacuations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jonathan R. Sifuentes.)</div>
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                <div class="image-caption">U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Julio Mejia Larez, 718th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron HH-60 avionics apprentice, assists in the offloading of an HH-60W Jolly Green II at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Jan. 26, 2024. The 718th AMXS is a vital component to HH-60 operations, performing routine maintenance operations to ensure HH-60 operators are safe and capable of conducting emergency response operations. (U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jonathan R. Sifuentes)</div>
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                <div class="image-caption">Service members with the 33rd Helicopter Maintenance Unit and 718th Aircraft Maintenance Unit offload two HH-60W Jolly Green IIs at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Jan. 26, 2024. The HH-60W is designed from the ground up with integrated mission systems and features new multi-function displays to provide pilots with critical flight information. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Jonathan R. Sifuentes)</div>
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                <div class="image-caption">U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Heinrich Hermann, 718th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron HH-60 avionics apprentice, offloads an HH-60W at Kadena Air Base, Japan, Jan. 26, 2024. The 718th AMXS is a vital component to HH-60 operations, performing routine maintenance operations to ensure HH-60 operators are safe and capable of conducting emergency response operations. (U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jonathan R. Sifuentes)</div>
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    <div><b>By Airman 1st Class Jonathan R. Sifuentes,</b> <span class="date">/ Published Jan. 29, 2024</span></div>
    <span class="dateline-text">KADENA AIR BASE, Japan, </span>
    <p><span style="font-size:larger;">The HH-60W Jolly Green IIs from the 55th Rescue Generation Squadron, Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, arrived at their new duty station, Kadena Air Base, Japan, January 26, 2024.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:larger;">The HH-60W is the successor to the HH-60G “Pave Hawk” and built on the established framework of the UH-60M “Black Hawk” production model.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:larger;">Alternatively known as the “Whiskey” model, the HH-60W is designed from the ground up with integrated mission systems that improve situational awareness for aircrews conducting the combat search and rescue missions in contested environments.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:larger;">“The new avionics systems and multifunctional displays provide the pilots with critical flight data,” said U.S. Air Force Senior Airman Anthony Canlas, 718th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron HH-60 dedicated crew chief. “These new models will improve our continued search and rescue missions throughout the Pacific.”</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:larger;">The HH-60W is intended for a variety of mission critical operations to include recovering isolated personnel from hostile or denied territory, day or night, in adverse weather, and in a variety of threat environments from terrorist to chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:larger;">Its capabilities also include humanitarian missions, civil search and rescue, disaster relief, medical evacuation, and non-combatant evacuations.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:larger;">With water rescues being an ever-present reality for Okinawa, these new aircraft will allow Kadena Airmen to be better equipped to save not just American lives, but also Okinawan lives.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:larger;">“These models are the new standard for combat search and rescue operations for PACAF and nationwide,” said U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Bryan Donnelly, 718th AMXS, 33rd Helicopter Maintenance Unit production superintendent. “All HH-60G models will be replaced on Kadena.”</span></p>

<p><span style="font-size:larger;">The name “Jolly Green II” designated to the HH-60W was coined in a ceremony in February of 2020. It honors Jolly Green crews of previous generations who set the precedent for the AF combat rescue crews who operate today.</span></p>
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