Combat Rescue Afghanistan

A slideshow of pics from the 129ERQS summer in Afghanistan providing MEDEVAC to US/Coalition forces and local Afghani personnel. In 4 months we had 631 missions for 397 saves. The US Air Force Rescue motto is "These things we do so that others may live..." See more of my pics and full res versions of these at my Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/mwenthe/ or follow me on twitter @mwenthe - Thanks for all the positive comments!

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• Pedros
• Combat
• Rescue
• Afghanistan
• Air
• Force
• Helicopter
• Jolly
• Green
• Helmand
• Valley
• photography
• travel log
• caminophoto
• mwenthe

[friendlyhostile]

SPECTACULAR slideshow!!!!

o and not to be rude but, would anybody mind giving me the name of that first music track?

[mwenthe]

@friendlyhostile Thanks for the props. The first song is called "Things I've Seen", by the SPOOKS. I love it...

[dloghin]

whats the name and artist of the tune of the first song of the vid?... its def not kings of leon lol.

good vid and mad respects to all the people who feel called to do these kind of things for a living

[mwenthe]

@dloghin First song is called "The Things I've Seen" by the S.P.O.O.K.S., the middle song is Johnny Cash covering Tom Petty, and the last song is the Kings of Leon!

[Crujones16]

Great Clip. You guys are amazing. I worked with you first hand on Aug 26 in Nawa when some of my fellow Marines from A1/5 got hit. thanks for the great work!!

[mwenthe]

@Crujones16 Great work in Nawa. I spent a couple hours on the phone with the producer of the upcoming documentary about you guys called "Jaker". He wanted to talk about the events of the 26th and a couple other events. Some of the pics in the slideshow are from the 26th.

[kryptsonatifosi]

hahaha yea we were. just cause we were injurede doesnt mean that we couldnt train for the world thumbwrestling championship. all the guys that were on the hello with me are all fully healed up now. but do you have any video or pics of us that you could send me? thanks for saving me:)

[MrDocdiggler]

I personally can't stand the AF CSAR. Ya'll fly reckless, pop flares over the FARP, dump your patients on me and my crew then only take the missions that bring you glory and publicity. Bad experiences, and I hate that......DUSTOFF!

[1990jakr]

What is music ?

[RainbowNLD]

Who else wasnt paying much attention at 1.21 and thought it was a RC Blackhawk flying very low above water xD

[ResQSlick]

@TheCarlious That's funny cuz if u read ANY blog comments from Pedro dudes, all u see is admiration for Army and other assets like ours. We can't do it without rockin as a team. When u turn 20, you'll understand.

[TheCarlious]

Good ole Pedro's...

When my crew crashed in Nuristan Valley Oct '09 looking for a MIA C12, you guys said we were too high to reach and ignored the Fallen Angel... Yet the next day you guys somehow managed to make it up the valley to retrieve the C12 wreckage. Y'all are so freaking gun shy it isn't funny. Better luck next round Night Stalker posers...

Honcho 62

MH-60M

1-160th

A Real Night Stalker

[kausinrukus]

i was there with you at that time, i was weapons, myself and two others. hope the .50s sang and the minis were flawless. !

[FederalQsiren]

Great video alot of Danish and British troops in this video! :)

[DeepSoldier]

4 : 12 what's this ?

[davidbeavermosley]

8:13 home from home :) ......big big respect to you guys.