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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      Davis-Monthan Air Force Base Airmen deployed Aug. 29, 2017, to southeast Texas, for Hurricane Harvey rescue efforts.48th RQS provides Hurricane Harvey rescue support
                        
                        
                        Airmen from Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Ariz. deployed Aug. 29, 2017, to southeast Texas to support Hurricane Harvey rescue efforts. Approximately 20 members of the 48th Rescue Squadron are providing their special skills of swiftwater and technical rescue to victims. (U.S. Air Force/Courtesy photo)
                
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48th RQS provides Hurricane Harvey rescue supportPublished Aug. 31, 2017
                    
                    By Senior Airman Ashley N. Steffen
                    
                    
                    355th Fighter Wing Public Affairs
            **DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, Ariz. (AFNS) --**Airmen from the 48th Rescue Squadron responded to recovery operations for Hurricane Harvey, arriving at Easterwood Airfield, College Station, Texas, with approximately 20 members, Aug. 29, 2017.
The mission is to provide boat-based rescue support in addition to current efforts in southeast Texas.
“Our four, three-man boat teams are currently in Port Arthur and Beaumont, Texas, to provide their special skills of swiftwater and technical rescue,” said Maj. Scott Diehl, the 48th RQS director of operations. “When we forward deployed this morning we were some of the first rescue forces to arrive to what is currently ground zero for Hurricane Harvey flooding and rain.”
The Airmen are grid searching areas with swift water and providing confined space, extrication, and collapsed structure rescues.  
“In the first few hours our forces have been employed they have already been executing rescues,” Diehl said.
In addition to combat rescue officers and pararescuemen, the 48th RQS also supplied a survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialist, an aircrew flight equipment specialist, an intelligence analyst, a squadron aviation resource manager, an independent duty medical technician and a communications Airman.
“Our Guardian Angel and support personnel were eager and happy to support,” Diehl said. “The coordinated rescue effort from what I understand has been massive and hugely successful.”Air Force 



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