56th Rescue Squadron, US Air Force

56TH RESCUE SQUADRON, US AIR FORCE

History: Constituted as 56 Air Rescue Squadron on 17 Oct 1952. Activated on 14 Nov 1952. Discontinued, and inactivated, on 18 Mar 1960. Activated on 8 Jul 1972. Redesignated as 56 Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron on 10 Jul 1972. Inactivated on 15 Oct 1975. Activated on 1 May 1988. Redesignated as: 56 Air Rescue Squadron on 1 Jun 1989; 56 Rescue Squadron on 1 Feb 1993.

Official blazon
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Origin/meaning

The Emblem was approved 31 March 1989; latest rendering, 30 April 2007.

Literature: Image from Wikimedia Commons

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