Fallen US pararescueman honoured
Members of the 920th Rescue Wing, 308th Rescue Squadron teammates, loved ones and friends paid their respects to Staff Sgt. Carl Enis at Arlington National Cemetery on 21 May.
Members of the 920th Rescue Wing, 308th Rescue Squadron teammates, loved ones and friends paid their respects to Staff Sgt. Carl Enis at Arlington National Cemetery on 21 May.
The pararescueman had been deployed in the Anbar Province, Iraq, on 15 March when he and his fellow teammates were called upon to provide combat rescue support for Inherent Resolve, when the HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter he was in crashed, killing him and six other airmen.
Members of the Guardian Angel team – a triad of combat rescue officers and SERE or survival specialists who are expert swimmers, SCUBA divers, mountain climbers, parachutists, marksmen and trauma medics who rescue injured combatants on the battlefield – performed the tradition of pounding their pararescue flash from their beret into the lid of Staff Sgt. Carl Enis’s casket.
“Staff Sgt. Enis was an outstanding citizen Airman and a phenomenal operator doing an incredible mission; he was also a great individual,” said Col. Kurt Matthews, 920th Rescue Wing commander. “You can be proud knowing Staff Sgt. Enis gave his last full measure performing the mission and serving our most noble Pararescue creed: ‘These things we do, that others may live.'"