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Pararescuemen are embedded with Special Operations Command assets to provide personnel recovery capability and life-saving medical treatment as expert combat medical professionals in hostile environments. Approximately 40 percent of pararescuemen are in special operations and receive additional special operations training to better support teammates in the U.S. Navy SEALs and U.S. Army Special Forces. Pararescuemen are among the most highly trained tactical rescue and emergency trauma specialists in the U.S. military. They must maintain an Emergency Medical Technician - Paramedic qualification throughout their careers. With this medical and rescue expertise, along with their deployment capabilities, PJs are able to perform life-saving rescue missions in the world's most remote areas. PJs do all this, with the intensity of a special operations mission set. Pararescuemen provide emergency and life-saving services for the most dangerous missions the U.S. military performs and frequently deploy with U.S. Navy SEALs and Army Special Forces. Their motto, "These Things We Do, That Others May Live," affirms Pararescue's dedication and commitment to saving lives and self-sacrifice. PJ Pipeline BMT Special Warfare Preparatory Course Assessment and Selection Initial Skills Course Pre Dive U.S. Air Force Dive School U.S. Army Airborne School U.S. Air Force Basic Survival School U.S. Air Force Underwater Egress Training U. S. Army Free Fall Parachutist School PJ Apprentice Course Advanced Skills Training Proceed to First Duty Assignment

The Special Operations Weather (SOWT) Career Field will change to Special Reconnaissance (SR) in April 2019. SR will emphasize skills associated with airpower-minded reconnaissance and surveillance and will maintain some of the important environmental reconnaissance (ER) tools developed by SOWT. A transition training program is currently being developed in conjunction with initial skills training updates. Special Operations Weather Team (SOWTs) are special operators with advanced meteorological and oceanographic skill sets. They are Air Force Special Tactics members assigned to the 24th Special Operations Wing, 320th Special Tactics Squadron, and 321st Special Tactics Squadron – all units under Air Force Special Operations Command. Operating in all climates, day or night, special operations weathermen maintain the highest standards of physical fitness and proficiency in the use of light weapons. Special operations weathermen are among the most highly trained personnel in the U.S. military. They maintain the same weather weapon system qualifications as all Air Force weathermen in addition to advanced special tactics skills. Their 61 weeks of training and unique mission skills earn them the right to wear the gray beret. SOWTs can establish weather networks in austere combat locations, giving battlefield commanders real-time ground truth weather information that may impact deployment, movement and engagement decisions. Their motto, "Coela Bellatores," or "Weather Warriors," reaffirms the commitment to deploy into restricted environments by air, land or sea to observe and analyze all weather data from “mud to sun.” BMT Special Warfare Preparatory Course Assessment and Selection Initial Skills Course U.S. Army Airborne School U.S. Air Force Basic Survival School U.S. Air Force Water Survival School U.S. Air Force Underwater Egress Training Special Operations Weather Course Advanced Skills Training Special Tactics Training Combat dive and military free-fall qualifications, as well as recon-specific training, are being added to the pipeline. Proceed to First Duty Assignment