Combat Search And Rescue teams were involved in the Special Forces rescue of Private Jessica Lynch in Iraq.

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Air Force officials credit their Combat Search and Rescue teams with more than 750 saves in Iraq and Afghanistan since September 11, 2001.

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It's the same for the other members of the Combat Search And Rescue team, from the pilots and aircrews, to the Combat Rescue Officers and Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape (SERE) specialists.

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In July 1992, OSD effectively rejected the requirements established by the commands responsible for Special Operations Forces (SOF) and Navy Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) for an aircraft with the high speed and long range capabilities critical to their respective missions.

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In the process, the Navy was obliged to violate established DoD procedure concerning joint programs and to ignore the long-standing requirement of Special Operations Forces (SOF) and Navy Combat Search and Rescue (CSAR) for a system with the speed and range critical to their missions.

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They did so in the conviction that this extraordinary technology can and must be brought to bear so that untold thousands of their countrymen can perform dangerous combat, search and rescue, special operations and other missions in the future in greater safety and with greater likelihood of success than with helicopter alternatives.

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These include, notably: rapid movement of Marines and their materiel, special operations forces and combat search-and-rescue personnel.

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