The Search and Rescue exercise for the HH212 crews of the 21st "Tiger" Group of the 9th Wing of Grazzanise (CE) in collaboration with the CNSAS (National Alpine and Speleological Rescue Corps - Campania).
After a preliminary preparation phase for the activity, a crew of the 21 ° Group Tiger of the 9 ° Stormo took off to carry out the rescue and rescue activity of the personnel by means of a winch. The activity falls within the periodic maintenance of the SAR capabilities of the 21 ° Flight Group which intervenes from time to time at the request of Air Operations Command of Ferrara in coordination with the local prefectures.
These exercises aim to refine the ability to integrate and interoperability between the different components called to contribute to the complex and delicate research activities and first intervention, on the occasion of any natural disaster that occurs on national soil.
"Sharing experiences and procedures with relief organizations and teams on land is always an important opportunity to develop and increase those fundamental synergies to be ready at all times to intervene when we are asked, often in prohibitive conditions, at night, with the bad weather, in particularly inaccessible and isolated areas ” - underlines the commander the 9 ° Stormo Colonel Pasquale Di Palma - “In this sense this activity is certainly a great opportunity to perfect more and more techniques and procedures for air rescue, a sector which is complex by nature, which requires perfect integration between the military and civilian realities in the delicate task of rescuers".
