Risk Mitigation and Critical Factors Affecting CSAR

<p>In October of 2004 a two-ship formation of Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopters departed Kandahar Afghanistan on a Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) mission in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM (OEF). The patient a host-nation gunshot victim was stranded in a remote location and required immediate medical treatment and evacuation. The lack of mission and weather details intelligence data and patient vitals were business as usual for Air Force rescue crews. Upon mission completion an airman's life had been lost a twenty million dollar aircraft had been destroyed and questions pertaining to the actual condition of the patient began to surface. As investigators combed over aircrew records maintenance documents and digital mission tapes they would discover in spite of the tragedy the doomed crew performed superbly. The crew executed the mission with a conservative and thorough approach to risk management and mitigated each aspect of the mission precisely as they had been trained.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>