The Unit 669 is a heliborne combat search and rescue extraction unit, subordinate to 7 Wing of the Israeli Air Force. It is the Israeli equivalent to Pararescue of the US Air Force.
Unit 669 heliborne MEDEVAC display during IAF cadet graduation ceremony.
669 operative in cliff rescue display
Unit 669 rescue divers training in the Mediterranean.
Combat search and rescue (CSAR) are search and rescue operations that are carried out during war that are within or near combat zones.
An HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter comes in for a landing during a combat rescue training exercise.
Richard Bell-Davies conducted the first combat S&R mission in his aircraft during the First World War.
A Sikorsky HH-53B refueling during the Vietnam War.
Pararescuemen return with a downed pilot from a successful rescue mission in southern Iraq (2003).