U.S. Air Force aircrew members and pararescuemen with the 26th Expeditionary Rescue Squadron perform preflight inspections on medical equipment aboard an Air Force HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter at Camp Bastion in Helmand province, Afghanistan, May 25, 2013.
Airmen assigned to the squadron deployed from Moffett Federal Airfield, Calif., with the 129th Rescue Wing, which recorded its 1,000th save May 18, 2013, when members of the unit rescued an Afghan National Police officer who had suffered a gunshot wound in southern Afghanistan. (DoD photo by Senior Airman Scott Saldukas, U.S. Air Force/Released). Original public domain image from Flickr