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Guardian Angel - Life and Death Adventures with Pararescue, the World's Most Powerful Commando Rescue Force (Hardcover)
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Guardian Angel - Life and Death Adventures with Pararescue, the World's Most Powerful Commando Rescue Force (Hardcover)
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U.S. Air Force Pararescue is the most skilful and capable rescue
force in the world, taking on some of the most dangerous rescue
missions imaginable. PJs (short for para-jumpers), are members of
an elite unit whose commando skills are so wide-reaching they often
seem like something out of science fiction. They routinely tackle
perilous operations that are beyond the capabilities of other
rescue organisations, and sometimes dare the seemingly impossible.
Since their inception in 1947, PJs have saved more than thirty
thousand lives. They can pluck near-frozen climbers off jagged
mountaintops as well as recover shot-down jet pilots stranded deep
in hostile territory. In the dead of night, the PJs parachute into
ominous black waves that loom twenty feet tall to save distressed
seamen, and brave the cruellest and most desolate deserts to
recover victims. U.S. Air Force pararescuemen have played a
prominent role in every armed conflict since the Korean War,
rescuing thousands of soldiers from behind enemy lines. Guardian
Angel provides a rare glimpse at a PJ's mind-blowing adventures.
You follow Sgt. Sine's trek across exotic lands and share his
encounters with mysterious cultures. Learn what it takes to lower
from a helicopter onto the slippery decks of storm-tossed ships to
rescue dying sailors. Feel what it's like to be caught in the
middle of a bomb blast so powerful that it tears high-rise
buildings in half, and flattens armoured vehicles hundreds of yards
away. Soar high above towering jungle trees and experience the
danger of swinging on a slim cable below a helicopter while
performing a mid-air rescue of a pilot, dangling from his chute a
hundred feet above a mountain slope. Go to war in Afghanistan and
parachute onto a nocturnal battlefield surrounded by land mines to
help a mortally wounded soldier. This is a deadly serious business:
when things go wrong, they can go terribly wrong. Aircraft crash
into mountainsides, killing all onboard, while some PJs live
through horrendous helicopter crashes only to struggle with
freezing temperatures, snapped limbs and torn flesh in a desperate
fight for survival. This book presents true stories of uncommon
courage told from the perspective of the actual men in the arena.
PJ's belong to an exclusive brotherhood and forge unbreakable bonds
of loyalty, commitment, and sacrifice. They do these things for
their country, to protect their brothers in arms, and to honour
their motto:"That Others May Live."
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