Rescues. (People Planes Places).On 26 January the Boston Coast Guard command center dispatched an HH-60 Jayhawk The HH-60 Jayhawk is a twin-engine medium-range search and rescue (SAR) helicopter, based on the airframe of the SH-60 Seahawk. Besides SAR, it is used for drug interdiction, cargo lift, and special operations. helicopter and HU-25 Falcon jet in response to a distress call from five fishermen in a life boat after their vessel Tara M.J. sank in the North Atlantic. The Falcon crew spotted the life raft 125 miles east of Portland, Maine Portland is the largest city in the U.S. state of Maine, with a 2004 population of 63,882. Portland is Maine's cultural, social and economic capital. Tourists are drawn to Portland's historic Old Port district along Portland Harbor, which is at the mouth of the Fore River and part . Kastner, a 170-foot cargo ship in the area, retrieved the unharmed crewmen and took them to Lockporte, Nova Scotia. LCpl. Ernest Rancel rescued a Sailor while on liberty during a deployment to Tumon Bay, Guam, in February. An ordnance technician with VMFA-212, Rancel witnessed the Sailor in a jet ski accident and was able to bring him ashore on a floating backboard back·board n. 1. A board placed under or behind something to provide firmness or support. 2. A board placed beneath the body of a person with an injury to the neck or back, used especially in transporting the person in such a way . Rancel then provided the Sailor first aid for a broken leg and shock while awaiting emergency personnel. An HC-11 CH-46 Sea Knight The Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight is a medium-lift tandem rotor assault helicopter, used by the United States Marine Corps (USMC) to provide all-weather, day-or-night assault transport of combat troops, supplies and equipment. acting as the search and rescue helicopter for flight deck qualifications on Tarawa (LHA A popular freeware compression program developed by Haruyasu Yoshizaki that uses a variant of the LZW (LZ77) dictionary method followed by a Huffman coding stage. It runs on PCs, Unix and other platforms as its source code is also free. 1) was called into action when an Harrier II crashed during a landing attempt. The pilot of the Harrier ejected safely, landed in the water and was picked up and in medical care aboard Tarawa within 15 minutes. |
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