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Airmen assigned to the 210th and 212th Rescue Squadrons participate in a rescue exercise near Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, March 26, 2021. The 212th RQS provides elite pararescuemen, combat rescue officers and Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape specialists to carry out the 176th Wing's wartime and peacetime rescue missions. (Airman 1st Class Jose Miguel T. Tamondong/Air Force)

A snowstorm and a plane crash stranded 13 in the Alaskan wilderness. The Guardsmen who rescued them have won an award.

Search-and-rescue crews were trying to help sick mountain climbers when a crashed plane needed them, too.

By Rachel S. Cohen

4 years ago

Investigation: Pararescueman fell to death from cliff when anchor slipped

The deaths of Kraines and a combat controller in a separate incident prompted the Air Force to halt parachuting, diving and mountaineering training and operations for several months.

By Stephen Losey

5 years ago

AFSOC resumes jump, dive, mountain operations after deaths

AFSOC suspended those operations last December as it investigated the deaths of pararescueman Tech. Sgt. Peter Kraines and combat controller Staff Sgt. Cole Condiff.

By Stephen Losey

5 years ago

AFSOC suspends parachute, diving, mountaineering operations after loss of two airmen

Tech. Sgt. Peter Kraines died in October from injuries sustained while practicing mountain rescues in Idaho, and Staff Sgt. Cole Condiff was lost in the Gulf of Mexico in November after a parachute mishap.

By Stephen Losey

5 years ago

Air Force cadets honored for saving hikers lost on 14,000-foot mountain

The cadets put their training into action and rescued the hikers in whiteout conditions.

By Victoria Leoni

7 years ago

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