Pararescuemen of the Kentucky Air National Guard’s 123rd Special Tactics Squadron performed a live demonstration for engineers and scientists at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, who are looking to improve the equipment that the combat rescuers use. Extracting a mock victim from a representative Humvee, the PJs provided the 711th Human Effectiveness Directorate a place to begin. “By viewing the demonstration from a lab perspective, our scientists and engineers can determine if there is a better way for the PJs to perform any part of their mission,” explained Randy Mieskoski, manager of the Specialized Warfighter Operations Research Development program. “Maybe we know of a technology that exists that can be adapted.” The directorate recently expanded its work, which formerly concentrated on improving the effectiveness of joint terminal attack controllers, to include pararescue. (Wright-Patt report by Elizabeth Long)
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The Government Accountability Office called for paring down the military's sprawling cyber enterprise in a recent report, amid renewed discussion about standing up a separate cyber force.
