Title: Combat search and rescue in Desert Storm
First published: 2007
Description: Budgetary, political, and organizational changes left the USAF unprepared for the combat search and rescue (CSAR) mission going into Desert Storm. Colonel Whitcomb relates his and others₂ experiences from CSAR in Southeast Asia and examines the organization that was established to provide CSAR services in the Iraq-Kuwait theater of operations. He traces each incident from beginning to end along with the tactical and sometimes strategic implications. Scores of interviews, e-mails, and published works provide a compendium of lessons learned and recommendations gleaned from those who flew the missions and made the decisions in Iraq.
Subjects: Armed Forces, Persian Gulf War (1991), Persian Gulf War (1991) fast (OCoLC)fst01058380, Persian Gulf War, 1991, Golfkrieg, Search and rescue operations, Military, HISTORY, Militär, Rettung
LC classification: DS