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The Hidden Career of Search and Rescue
Search and rescue sounds like a single job—find the lost person, bring them home. But it's actually four completely different career paths with distinct training pipelines, operational tempos, and cumulative costs on the people doing the work. This episode explores military combat SAR (Pararescuemen, Unit 669), civilian urban USAR under FEMA, volunteer wilderness rescue, and Coast Guard maritime operations. We dig into what it takes to build and maintain these capabilities—the two-year pipeline with 80% attrition, the perishable skills that degrade in months without practice, the…
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