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The 505th Search and Rescue Group; so "That Others May Live", PAF Angels
Topic Started: Dec 2 2004, 05:34 PM (13,475 Views)
saver111	Jun 8 2009, 12:25 PM Post #31
PDFF Moderator Posts: 7,682 Group: PDFF Mod Group Member #408 Joined: March 23, 2005	Personnel of the 5053rd Search and Rescue Squadron of the 505th Search and Rescue Group, the “Angels of the Southern Skies” (photos left to right, clockwise) airlifted a total of twenty-one (21) injured survivors, nineteen (19) cadavers, forty-four (44) paramedics and media personnel and sixteen (16) military security during the rescue and retrieval operations in Compostela Valley last May 19. Left lower photo shows the extent of the landslide taken aboard a search and rescue helicopter. http://www.paf.mil.ph/HQ/PIO/pio_index.html
	Justice for Daniel Lorenz Jacinto HELP END PIRACY NOW!: http://www.itfseafarers.org/petition.cfm


fatbat_mca	Aug 8 2009, 12:56 PM Post #32
Member Posts: 700 Group: Regulars Member #5,317 Joined: December 22, 2008	SAR dudes rescue Typhoon Kiko victims :thumb:
	oh my sofie!


MSantor	Aug 10 2009, 08:32 AM Post #33
Posts: 4,291 Group: PDFF Mod Group Member #516 Joined: August 6, 2005	More details: Quote: Air Force Pilots show heroism August 8, 2009, 9:11pm http://www.mb.com.ph/articles/215010/air-f...ts-show-heroism Daring Philippine Air Force (PAF) helicopter pilots once again revisited their heroic acts performed right after the 1991 eruption of Mount Pinatubo last Friday with search and rescue missions in Botolan, Zambales and in the mountains around the crater lake of Central Luzon’s most destructive volcano. PAF spokesman Lt. Colonel Gerardo M. Zamudio Jr. said that less than an hour upon receipt of information from Capas, Tarlac Mayor Rey Catacutan that mountaineers were trapped in the slopes of Mt. Pinatubo, PAF’s 1st Air Division commander Major General Horacio Lapinid ordered the deployment of Huey helicopters from the headquarters of the AFP Northern Luzon Command in Tarlac, Tarlac. Capas is the gateway of adventurous tourists to the crater of Mt. Pinatubo, a popular tourist destination in the region. As of lunchtime Friday, Zamudio said, the PAF has accounted for the 12 tourists and their Filipino guides. The remains of a Filipino guide and a Canadian national were recovered, including the injured Korean and Canadian mountaineers who were sent to Central Luzon Hospital Capas in Capas, Tarlac. In another development, Zamudio revealed that as early as 4 a.m. Friday, the PAF search and rescue teams at Villamor Air Base in Pasay City were already being briefed for deployment to the flooded Zambales town of Botolan. Two Huey II helicopters of the 505th Search and Rescue Group headed by its Group Commander, Col. Andre Tanyag with pararescuers on-board, lifted off for Zambales via Clark Air Base. By Friday noon, the PAF has rescued 123 children and two adults who were plucked by PAF helicopters from their rooftops as Botolan suffered its biggest flooding since the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo. It was learned that typhoon Kiko’s heavy rains triggered a lahar flow that breached a barrier dike, destroying the Bucao Bridge and flooding all the barangays of Botolan. Zamudio added that the PAF will continue with its operation in Botolan until typhoon “Kiko” and the emerging weather disturbance has subsided or until the safety of the residents has been ensured by the responding government agencies.



saver111	Aug 11 2009, 04:49 PM Post #34
PDFF Moderator Posts: 7,682 Group: PDFF Mod Group Member #408 Joined: March 23, 2005	TOG 6, ILO - ILO - Cebu-based 5052nd Search and Rescue Squadron were immediately dispatched to a remote barangay in Iloilo following reports of devastating mud flow last August 9, 2009. Photo shows rescue team members carry an old woman from the chopper as they land in an evacuation site in Tubungan, Iloilo. The old woman was one of 104 residents rescued after mud flow caused by torrential rains brought by Typhoon Kiko threatened to bury their barangay (Inset photo). (TOG 6 photos)
	Justice for Daniel Lorenz Jacinto HELP END PIRACY NOW!: http://www.itfseafarers.org/petition.cfm


saver111	Sep 8 2009, 10:34 PM Post #35
PDFF Moderator Posts: 7,682 Group: PDFF Mod Group Member #408 Joined: March 23, 2005	In this Monday, Sept. 7, 2009, photo released by the Philippine Air Force 505th Search and Rescue Squadron based at the 3rd Air Division in Zamboanga city, Lita Casumlum, a ferry survivor, prepares to be hoisted by an air force rescuer after she was spotted in shark-infested waters off Zamboanga peninsula in southern Philippines after bobbing with a life-jacket for more than 30 hours. Casumlum, 39, drifted into the sea after the passenger ferry, Superferry 9, with 968 passengers and crew onboard, listed and sank off Zamboanga peninsula. Nine passengers perished. (AP Photo/Philippine Air Force) In this Monday, Sept. 7, 2009, photo released by the Philippine Air Force 505th Search and Rescue Squadron based at the 3rd Air Division in Zamboanga city, Lita Casumlum, a ferry survivor, is carried to a waiting helicopter at Sirawai following her rescue from shark-infested waters off Zamboanga peninsula in southern Philippines after bobbing with a life-jacket for more than 30 hours. Casumlum, 39, drifted into the sea after the passenger ferry, Superferry 9, with 968 passengers and crew onboard, listed and sank off Zamboanga peninsula. Nine passengers perished. (AP Photo/Philippine Air Force) Lita Casumlum, a ferry survivor, recuperates in a military hospital in Zamboanga city in southern Philippines Tuesday Sept. 8, 2009. Casumlum was rescued from shark-infested waters off Zamboanga peninsula in southern Philippines after bobbing with life-jacket for more than 30 hours Monday Sept.7, 2009 when the passenger ferry, Superferry 9, with 968 passengers and crew onboard, listed and sank off Zamboanga peninsula. Nine passengers perished. Beside her is her husband Pepito, also a ferry survivor. (AP Photo/Al Jacinto)
	Justice for Daniel Lorenz Jacinto HELP END PIRACY NOW!: http://www.itfseafarers.org/petition.cfm


saver111	Oct 13 2009, 09:09 PM Post #36
PDFF Moderator Posts: 7,682 Group: PDFF Mod Group Member #408 Joined: March 23, 2005	AIR EVACUATION. Two Philippine Air Force 505th Search and Rescue Group pararescuers, in bright orange shirts, are shown evacuating rescued flood victims towards using a rescue helicopter. This scene was taken last Saturday on the second day of the troops’ search and rescue operation. The Philippine Air Force once again provided its search and rescue capability to support national and local residents respond to the flooding in Pangasinan following the reentry of Typhoon Pepeng in the country. (PAF, PIO Photo) AIRBORNE RESCUE. No matter how heavy the load is, a Philippine Air Force 505th Search and Rescue Group pararescuer, in bright orange shirt, was photographed winching as he loads a rescued flood victim towards an airborne rescue helicopter. This scene was taken last Saturday on the second day of the troops’ search and rescue operation. The Philippine Air Force once again provided its search and rescue capability to support national and local residents respond to the flooding in Pangasinan following the reentry of Typhoon Pepeng in the country. (PAF, PIO Photo) ROOFTOP RESCUE. A Philippine Air Force 505th Search and Rescue Group pararescuer, in bright orange shirt, was photographed herding a trapped Pangasinan family in a rusty roof before initiating an air evacuation procedure towards a rescue helicopter. This scene was taken last Friday at the height of Typhoon Pepeng. The Philippine Air Force once again provided its search and rescue capability to support national and local residents respond to the flooding in Pangasinan following the reentry of Typhoon Pepeng in the country. (PAF, PIO Photo)
	Justice for Daniel Lorenz Jacinto HELP END PIRACY NOW!: http://www.itfseafarers.org/petition.cfm


Valdore	Nov 21 2009, 01:27 PM Post #37
Member Posts: 177 Group: Regulars Member #5,683 Joined: May 22, 2009	The Men of the 505th Rescue Wing should be given highest award befitting such a Deed!.. And should deserve to the best equipments they need..



Coldfire1	Nov 23 2009, 12:47 PM Post #38
Recruit Posts: 15 Group: Recruits Member #5,331 Joined: December 31, 2008	hmmm those guys in orange of the 505th. they're very nice and friendly. and i must say na bagay talaga sila sa trabaho nila. especially after ondoy's wrath, i've seen some 505th guys who were evidently exhausted (i heard one guy na sinabi nya na 3 araw na syang walang tulog) and yet, he and his buddies still got some smiles on their faces and are more than willing and happy to serve our disaster stricken nation. the feeling was just overwhelming. ganon pala ang pakiramdam pag may mga bayani kang kasama. for the men and women of 505th SRG, saludo ako sa inyo! btw, masarap tumambay dun sa angel's box sa harap ng building nila sa cjvab.
	The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.


Blue Maxxx	Jan 2 2010, 03:34 PM Post #39
Member Posts: 1,039 Group: Regulars Member #5,799 Joined: December 10, 2009	They should be given new SAR equippments and Helicopters..
	Per Ardua ad Astra "Through Adversity to the Stars"! We Filipinos should always aim High! to the Stars! and Beyond them blue yonder!.


saver111	Jan 4 2010, 05:55 PM Post #40
PDFF Moderator Posts: 7,682 Group: PDFF Mod Group Member #408 Joined: March 23, 2005	Villamor Air Base, Pasay City - Air Force Commanding General Lt Gen Oscar H Rabena AFP (center) inspects a Bambi bucket, a fire-fighting gadget as Col Andre P Tanyag, 505th SRG Commander (left), explains its use. Lt Gen Rabena was Guest of Honor and his lady, Ms. Jocelyn Rabena was Special Guest during the formal program marking the 53rd Founding Anniversary of the 505th SRG. The event was held in 505th Hangar on 11 Dec 2009. (Photo by Sgt Tombado)
	Justice for Daniel Lorenz Jacinto HELP END PIRACY NOW!: http://www.itfseafarers.org/petition.cfm


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