Combat Rescue Officers, or CROs, and Pararescue Jumpers, or PJs, from the 58th Rescue Squadron at Nellis AFB, Nevada, conducted jump training over Echo Bay, Nevada, and Wendover Field, Utah on 10-11 January 2012. Freefall jumping is one of the ways CROs and PJs are trained to get to personnel who need to be rescued. An HC-130P King personnel recovery aircraft from the 102nd Rescue Squadron, the New York Air National Guard unit at Francis S. Gabreski Airport on Long Island, served as the jump platform during the exercise.
