Aviation Rescue Swimmer

Job Summary:

As an Aviation Rescue Swimmer (AIRR), you will be ready to enter challenging conditions to provide recovery and relief for rescue missions, humanitarian assistance, and operational support.

AIRRs may help anyone in nearly any environment; they may be called upon to save people around the globe during natural disasters or assist injured mountain climbers on inaccessible cliffs.

Duties:

• Serving as part of an aircrew on an SH-60 helicopter
• Coordinating with pilots to ensure mission success
• Saving pilots from downed aircraft
• Rescuing people from stranded or capsized vessels
Rescuing civilians during natural disasters working alongside other forces like Coast Guard Delivering aid supplies humanitarian operations Supporting Naval Special Warfare Operations Conducting surveillance anti-submarine warfare drug interdiction operations Operating radar Forward Looking Infrared FLIR sensors missile systems door guns in antivessel surface operating Transporting troops cargo shipsWORK ENVIRONMENTAviation Rescue Swimmers duty anywhere world They typically deploy aboard aircraft carriers ships shore stations TRAINING & ADVANCEMENT AIRR training physically mentally demanding programs Navy Candidates undergo two years training advanced swimming lifesaving techniques helicopter equipment crew weapons Throughout testing challenging scenarios Water land survival flight safety weeks Aircrew Candidate School Pensacola fourSearch Rescue Swimming Skills fiveRescue Swimmer SchoolPensacola basicNaval Aviation skills fourteenClass Technical School PetersburgMSEREvocation Resistance Escape SERESchool Island Portsmouth Advanced Education Training Based performance Navy needs select additionalE bandSwift water high seas cave cliff rescue Senior Enlisted selected instructors weapons master rappellers promotion opportunities competitive valuable credential fields qualifications education requirementsNo degree required becoming Enlisted but tough highly qualified candidates meet eyesight requirementuncorrected vision no worse than 20/100 correctable uncorrectable Armed Services Vocational Battery ASVAB score VE AR MK MC = 210 pass Physical Screening Test PST DEP Boot Pass Class Flight Be years younger U.S citizen eligible security clearance General maybe varying depending previously existingTime advising consulting physician before starting physical fitness program appropriate young healthy athletes;