Kev wrote:

wrote:
Blush, I was one of the search and rescue pilots.

Good for you! Did you fly out of Ft Collins or ?

Thank you! I flew out of FNL - Fort Collins / Loveland Airport.
We flew 1.0 hours to Colorado Springs/Peterson Air Force Base
for tasking, then flew the first half our our sortie, searching
2 of our 4 grids before lunch. Lunch/fuel at Pueblo (PUB),
then our 3rd and 4th grid, then back to FNL. 8.5 hours total time.
Our find was in grid #3.

I believe
Colorado Wing is credited with 20 finds and 4 saves.

What's the diff between a "find" and a "save" ? If there's a person
involved or ??

A find is when the target is located. The people may not
be there, or had self-recovered, or may be deceased.
A "save" is where a life is saved that would otherwise have
been lost if that particular "find" had not happened.

My crew found a jack-knifed 18-wheeler about 25 miles south of
La Junta, Colorado on Colorado Highway 109. We coordinated with a
national guard helicopter and they flew the trucker to a nearby
hospital.

One of the crew took a picture of the rig and the SOS stamped out
in the snow.

Best regards,

Jer/ "Flight instruction and mountain flying are my vocations!"
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