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At a Kuwait air base we see “That Others May Live” written on the ground. This is the motto of the Pararescuemen (or ‘PJs’), an elite team whose duty it is to rescue downed pilots – often behind enemy lines. They also perform civilian recoveries when the only suitable form of rescue is someone jumping out of a plane to save you.
Beside the motto they’ve also painted bigfoot’s footprints, perhaps the logo for an elite team of Pararescue Yeti?
Thanks: James Turnbull
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Were these two hangers bombed?
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It looks like precision bomb craters in their roofs.
There’s a bunch of buildings with spots that look like they’ve been bombed.
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Jack, Those look like covers/roofs under which they park the airplanes. The sun must be pretty brutal there in Kuwait.
That, I believe, is actually United States Air Force pararescues. The big green feet a symbol for the “Jolly Greens.” Not sure why they call them Jolly Greens though. Some of the pilots and flight crew have the Green Giant on one of there arm patches. I was stationed at a base that had a rescue squadron of those.
This is very kewl. The Jolly Green is the nickname of the HH-53 Helicopter that the PJs predominatley use for Search and Rescue.
“That Other may Live” is the “motto” of Pararescue units throughout the U.S. Air Force. The green feet is the symbol for the Sikorsky HH-3E Rescue Helicopter, affectionately known as the “Jolly Green Giant” to it’s crew members. The active Air Force no longer flies them, so this may be a reserve unit.
The name “Jolly Green” has been passed on to the HH-60G Pavehawk helicopter. I fly as a flight engineer on the 60’s, the green feet and the motto are shared throughout the combat search and rescue community.