Jumping to conclusions

Survival evasion resistance and escape specialists unload parachute equipment before they perform static-line jumps at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Nov. 6, 2012. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ryan Zeski)

Jumping to conclusions

Senior Airman Timothy George prepares a parachute for a static-line jump at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Nov . 6, 2012. Each step is essential in preparation as the smallest error could be fatal. George is a survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialist with the 22nd Training Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ryan Zeski)

Jumping to conclusions

Staff Sgts. Ryan Kutch and Justin Wilkins wait inside a CH-47 Chinook helicopter moments before they perform a static-line jump above Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Nov. 6, 2012. A static line is a cord attached at one end to an aircraft and the other to the parachutist. As they fall from the aircraft, it causes the line to deploy their parachute. Kutch is a survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialist with the 22nd Training Group and Wilkins is a SERE specialist with the 66th Training Squadron. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ryan Zeski)

Jumping to conclusions

Before executing static-line jumps, Tech. Sgt. Jason Martinez gives instructions regarding the static-line jumps at Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., Nov. 6, 2012. Static line and free-fall jumps are mandatory training courses to become a SERE specialist. Martinez is a survival, evasion, resistance and escape specialist with the 336th Training Group. (U.S. Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Ryan Zeski)

Take time, get to know your people

Last month, Fairchild Air Force Base, Wash., lost Airman 1st Class Adam Lassiter in a tragic off-duty accident. Lassiter was a Survival Evasion Resistance Escape specialist candidate, assigned to the 336th Training Group for technical training. (Courtesy photo)

Deployed members from the 336th TRG at Fairchild participate in rescue in Afghanistan

Staff Sgt. Jonathan Hill, an Mi-17 helicopter engineer from the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Squadron, who is deployed from the 36th Rescue Flight at Fairchild, directs villagers to his helicopter Jan 24. American and Afghan Airmen conducted a rescue mission in the Badakshan Province, Afghanistan after an avalanche trapped and injured members of Shewa Village. (U.S. Air Force photos by Master Sgt. Shane A. Cuomo)