Search and Rescue: Survival--Training Edition. AF Manual 64-3

U.S. Department of the Air Force

Published by U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1978

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28 cm, approx. 400 pages, Illustrations. Maps. Figures. Index. This supersedes AFM 64-3, 16 July 1962, as amended. Broken at spine into two parts at pages 3-8 and 3-9. Held by a rubber band. Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people who are in distress or imminent danger. The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, typically determined by the type of terrain the search is conducted over. These include mountain rescue; ground search and rescue, including the use of search and rescue dogs; urban search and rescue in cities; combat search and rescue on the battlefield and air-sea rescue over water. The 336th Training Group is a United States Air Force group with the mission to provide Air Force survival training. The group is located at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington, with one subordinate unit at Naval Air Station Pensacola, FL, and one at Eielson Air Force Base, AK. The unit's historical lineage goes back to the 336th Bombardment Group which was a World War II United States Army Air Forces training organization. It served in the United States during World War II. This manual was published by the Air Training Command. Revised Edition, reprinted with Change 1 included.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Search and Rescue: Survival--Training Edition. AF Manual 64-3
• Publisher: U. S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC
• Publication Date: 1978
• Binding: Wraps
• Condition: Poor
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