(Jerusalem Post) Anna Ahronheim - The Israel Air Force's elite Airborne Combat, Search and Rescue Unit 669 has just completed a 10-day international rescue exercise together with units from the U.S., Italy, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Canada and the Netherlands, a senior air force officer said Tuesday. The unit is trained in combat medicine, parachuting, scuba diving, counter-terrorism, rappelling, rescue under harsh conditions and navigation. Initially charged with extracting Israeli pilots who were shot down in enemy territory, it later began undertaking rescue missions of injured or stranded Israelis, both at home and abroad.
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