Navy Rescue Swimmer "So Others May Live"
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- Опубликовано: 15 окт 2024
- When lives are on the line, Navy Aviation Rescue Swimmers (AIRRs) are exceptionally adept at answering the call. These brave men and women embody the courage of America’s Navy - readily going into harm’s way to complete their rescue missions in some of the most extreme environments imaginable. As part of the most elite helicopter emergency response team in the world, you’ll be tasked with saving the lives of people caught in the waves. Living by the motto, “So others may live,” rescue swimmers put their skills to the test for others each time they leap into the sea.
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Been there and done that old school, HS-7 Dusty Dogs onboard USS John F Kennedy, Beirut Lebanon 1983-84. Was a great gig, highly recommend it!
The definition of a strong swimmers
Been there done that. I was Helicopter Rescue Swimmer for launch and recover of aircraft aboard the USS Wasp and the USS Valley Forge. So long ago. Loved my job!
plan on going out for it next summer
God bless these Men 👍🏾🇺🇸❤️
God bless Rescue Swimmers.
If I was fitter than ordinary, I would have been one!
First woman helicopter rescue swimmer. Worked with Navy and Marine Corps.
lol, 1:56, dude stop making it look like fun! Awesome video, great stuff!!
I was a Sardog on the Big 5! USS BATAAN LHD-5! Best experience of my life! Graduated class 01004 HOO-YAH! Semper Fi!
Any one who tries to say American Military is all War Machine knows nothing of the extensive research and training that goes into keeping this part of it Top Notch
Awesome mate! Your tributes are soooo much better than mine! Keep on the grind 💯💯🤙
Thats how a man whos going to learn and become better speaks
I went to the school, and was ship board rescue swimmer during flight ops.
Is it something anybody can apply for or do i have to to be an aviation rate to apply? I see AIRR is a Rate but someone told SAR is a duty i can apply for but i can find no information.
@@JeanGaoRacine after 45 years I don't remember all of the details. But there was a Helo crash next to the ship right after takeoff and a lot of lives were lost. I wrote a letter to the captain explaining how someone with the right equipment, ready to hit the water could have saved more lives. We had a few conversations and when we got back stateside he sent me to training.
@@JeanGaoRacine you can do a normal rate and be a ships rescue swimmer. All ships have two on board trained swimmers at all times.
However if you wanna do this stuff you need to go to Rescue Swimmer School as an AIRR.
@@brandoncliff5653 I'm thinking about joining would I be able to run a lot? It's my one passion.
@@mitchruns9667 A lot of running..... A lot lol.
Class 90180 Pensacola. A great experience and memory. AW2 S. Colbert
5 and 15, tap on the shoulder, your whole perspective on life suddenly changes!!
Or 0 and 20!
"GO NAVY "
Nice
Is SAR now AIRRR or is it a duty anybody can apply for or specific rate like air crew or HM. Im new to the navy and would like to apply for this
"AIRR" is Navy Aviation Rescue Swimmer, a specific MOS. SAR stands for "search and rescue", a specific mission that anyone in the Navy may find themselves part of at any time. SAR is an AIRR's primary mission.
You’re gonna have to prequalify/“try out” to get a rescue swimmer contract before you can go to boot camp. Your recruiter will tell you just to go aircrew and you can apply for air rescue in boot camp or afterwards and that’s bullshit. Unless you wanna spend 4-5 years in the navy and then try and go after that when you’re all out of shape but I wouldn’t recommend it.
I was a Navy Air Rescue Swimmer.
The job rate is called AWS or AWR, depending what your given after completing Air Rescue Swimmer School. There is a difference between the rates that I’m not willing to discuss on RUclips.
No matter what, the job is actually all about flying in the back of a Seahawk (H-60) Helicopter, on an everyday basis.
Every Navy H-60 you see flying in the sky has two Rescue Swimmers flying as its helicopter crewmen for the cabin in the back.
The term Rescue Swimmer is just a qualification we carry, and just a title that Navy Recruiters are told to advertise the job by. As I have said, our rate is AWS or AWR, there’s no Rescue Swimmer rate or Rescue Swimmer job description we officially go by.
We do call ourselves Rescue Swimmers but at the end of the day our uniform is simply wearing a flight suit everyday.
And every few months we perform a quick Rescue Swimmer exercise scenario to maintain our Rescue Swimmer qualification.
Really, the job is about being an AW crewman for H-60s, hence AWS or AWR is our job rating. It’s well known in our job community that nearly all Air Rescue Swimmers will never be needed to perform any actual Rescue.
So you will know you will likely never work performing as a Rescue Swimmer in any real life scenario.
There was two squadrons that I knew about that were located in areas where many civilians required being rescued on a regular basis. At those squadrons you might perform an actual real life rescue. But, there are many that retired without ever doing any actual rescue.
The job is mainly performing as a helicopter crewman for the H-60s. The term Rescue Swimmer is simply what we are qualified to do. We were only required to swim in a pool every few months, to maintain our qualification as a Rescue Swimmer.
So you will be a helicopter crewman operating in a flight suit 99.9% of the time.
Which means you will spend most of your time sitting in a seat while flying in the back of a H-60 helicopter.
But I’d say it’s a great experience simply because you get to experience something different, such as learning everything about the H-60 helicopter.
While everyone else goes through life never knowing how a helicopter functions.
You also get pushed to learn complex information and you learn you are super intelligent and your co-workers are super intelligent as well.
So it builds confidence inside you for the rest of your life that you could do anything that requires high intelligence.
Many of my ex-Rescue Swimmer co-workers left the Navy and became medical doctors, Master and PhD graduates, Ivy League University Graduates, 6 figure income career earners, etc. Then some left and simply became a Police Officer.
Either way, the everyday helicopter tasks are not the reward, the confidence of your cerebral power this job demonstrates you actually have is the reward.
Some will say it was easy the entire time to pass the helicopter exams or tests, but they forgot about the few moments where they had to actually study hard at times in order to remember information. And the confidence it gave them by doing that.
No body could remember information for exams without studying and studying for exams is all we did during my Helicopter Crewman School.
This job also requires you to go through SERE School which also teaches you a life-long perspective and great knowledge.
So this job is worth doing if you want the most confidence you could get to start living life with your best foot forward.
In my opinion, the equivalent would be getting accepted to any Ivy League University and then qualifying as a pilot to fly an aircraft, whether helicopter or fixed wing aircraft.
Also, I never swim in pools or the beach. Just because I was a Rescue Swimmer (more of a qualification than job title) doesn’t mean I was passionate about swimming or being in a pool somewhere. In fact, I don’t know of any Rescue Swimmer who was or is that way.
Swimming to perform rescues was just a qualification and there never was a lifestyle around swimming.
I also don’t think any of us stayed in permanent contact with each other after exiting the Navy.
Do the job and get the experience. Or do the job and get the extra monthly flight pay, monthly Rescue Swimmer pay, and large re-enlistment bonuses usually well over $20k.
Most of the people who stayed in were those who started a family.
If you stay in for the long haul, the job could be fun if you are always asking to be sent to the specialty squadrons like the one assigned to Navy Seals or sent to the Rescue Swimmer squadron where they do cold ocean water training and other specialized training and tasks that not all Rescue Swimmers do.
Hope this helps.
Looks, Family
Can you do marine Corps vid?
Literally see my last video haha.
@@sarlife that's what I was gonna say🤣
Literally every rescue agency’s motto
I still hate flutter kicks
🤣🤣🤣
I was a Navy Air Rescue Swimmer.
The job rate is called AWS or AWR, depending what your given after completing Air Rescue Swimmer School. There is a difference between the rates that I’m not willing to discuss on RUclips.
No matter what, the job is actually all about flying in the back of a Seahawk (H-60) Helicopter, on an everyday basis.
Every Navy H-60 you see flying in the sky has two Rescue Swimmers flying as its helicopter crewmen for the cabin in the back.
The term Rescue Swimmer is just a qualification we carry, and just a title that Navy Recruiters are told to advertise the job by. As I have said, our rate is AWS or AWR, there’s no Rescue Swimmer rate or Rescue Swimmer job description we officially go by.
We do call ourselves Rescue Swimmers but at the end of the day our uniform is simply wearing a flight suit everyday.
And every few months we perform a quick Rescue Swimmer exercise scenario to maintain our Rescue Swimmer qualification.
Really, the job is about being an AW crewman for H-60s, hence AWS or AWR is our job rating. It’s well known in our job community that nearly all Air Rescue Swimmers will never be needed to perform any actual Rescue.
So you know you will likely never work performing as a Rescue Swimmer in any real life scenario.
There was two squadrons that I knew about that were located in areas where many civilians required being rescued on a regular basis. At those squadrons you might perform an actual real life rescue. But, there are many that retired without ever doing any actual rescue.
The job is mainly performing as a helicopter crewman for the H-60s. The term Rescue Swimmer is simply what we are qualified to do. We were only required to swim in a pool every few months, to maintain our qualification as a Rescue Swimmer.
So you will be a helicopter crewman operating in a flight suit 99.9% of the time.
Which means you will spend most of your time sitting in a seat while flying in the back of a H-60 helicopter.
But I’d say it’s a great experience simply because you get to experience something different, such as learning everything about the H-60 helicopter.
While everyone else goes through life never knowing how a helicopter functions.
You also get pushed to learn complex information and you learn you are super intelligent and your co-workers are super intelligent as well.
So it builds confidence inside you for the rest of your life that you could do anything that requires high intelligence.
Many of my ex-Rescue Swimmer co-workers left the Navy and became Medical doctors, Master and PhD graduates, Ivy League University Graduates, 6 figure income career earners, etc. Then some left and simply became a Police Officer.
Either way, the everyday helicopter tasks are not the reward, the confidence of your cerebral power this job demonstrates you actually have is the reward.
Some will say it was easy the entire time to pass the helicopter exams or tests, but they forgot about the few moments where they had to actually study hard at times in order to remember information. And the confidence it gave them by doing that.
No body could remember information for exams without studying and studying for exams is all we did during my Helicopter Crewman School.
This job also requires you to go through SERE School which also teaches you a life-long perspective and great knowledge.
So this job is worth doing if you want the most confidence you could get to start living life with your best foot forward.
In my opinion, the equivalent would be getting accepted to any Ivy League University and then qualifying as a pilot to fly an aircraft, whether helicopter or fixed wing aircraft.
Also, I never swim in pools or the beach. Just because I was a Rescue Swimmer (more of a qualification than job title) doesn’t mean I was passionate about swimming or being in a pool somewhere. In fact, I don’t know of any Rescue Swimmer who was or is that way.
Swimming to perform rescues was just a qualification and there never was a lifestyle around swimming.
I also don’t think many of us stayed in permanent contact with each other after exiting the Navy.
Do the job and get the experience. Or do the job and get the extra monthly flight pay, monthly Rescue Swimmer pay, and large re-enlistment bonuses usually well over $20k.
Most of the people who stayed in were those who started a family.
If you stay in for the long haul, the job could be fun if you are always asking to be sent to the specialty squadrons like the one assigned to Navy Seals or sent to the Rescue Swimmer squadron where they do cold ocean water training and other specialized training and tasks that not all Rescue Swimmers do.
Hope this helps
FYI:
I knew of a Navy Air Rescue Swimmer who became a SERE School Instructor. Because we are Air Rescue Swimmers who had to go through SERE School, we qualify to be SERE Instructors as well. It’s only if you keep asking to be a SERE Instructor, and then you pass their tests.
So, to summarize, you're more or less a medic in a helicopter?
AWS does more cargo transport and rescue swimming. AWR does more submarine hunting. You don't get to choose your Rate it's assigned to you. SRS- Surface Rescue Swimmer is on boats not everyone is EMT- Emergency Medical Technician certified they could just be C- SAR Combat Search & Rescue Certified a locator acting as a Flight Mission Observer that sits next to the Crew Chief who's responsible for the safety of the Swimmers .SRS- Surface Rescue Swimmer use RIB- Rubber Inflatable boats , if he's AWR he's limited to what he can say about his Rate because it's classified how they operate.
do they all go through EMT school still?
Rescue swimmers are no more than Cops/Firefighters etc...That go in when others are running out, no more, no less. I was one, and didn't put myself above anyone else. Where have we gone (Medal grabbers). Shame on you.
No one in the community puts themselves above anyone else, we’re ultimately just doing a job.
@@optrdocksidebars7106 I never had a RS that thought he was king shit. Most actually were laid back funny guys that happened to be adventurous and liked the challenge. In the end we were all part of a team doing something most would run in fear from.
Never let a navy boy do a Coastguard man's job. Greetings from the Washington coast. 💙⚓
I was at NAS Pensacola, when the Coastguard decided to send the first Coastguard Rescue Swimmers down to our school to get training in the 1980's. They then went back and created your school. Love my puddle pirate brothers and sisters!! Glad we could teach you how to do your job! All kidding aside, Much respect for all who do the job, no matter what branch. Best job I ever had! Stay Safe Washington Coast, and enjoy the job!!