he Air Force search-and-rescue community marked the start of a new era last month when airmen with the 41st and 38th Rescue Squadrons based at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia carried out the branch’s first-ever rescue mission using an HH-60W Jolly Green II helicopter, the new aircraft that is meant to bring better range and 21st-century technology to the art of saving people in need. 

An HH-60W Jolly Green II lands during a simulated rescue mission Feb. 25, 2021, at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia. (Airman 1st Class Jasmine M. Barnes/U.S. Air Force) 

Airmen from the 38th Rescue Squadron transport a patient during the HH-60W Jolly Green II’s first official rescue mission in Tampa, Florida, Sept. 7, 2022. (Senior Airman John Crampton/U.S. Air Force)