Part of the 347th Rescue Group, 23rd Wing, it is stationed at Moody Air Force Base, Georgia.

This squadron provides survivor contact, treatment, and extraction during combat rescue operations, and uses various fixed/rotary wing insertion/extraction assets and employs by any means available to provide combat and humanitarian search, rescue, and medical assistance in all environments.

The squadron provided light-lift helicopter operations east of the Mississippi River from 1978 to 1980.

During 1969–70, with US involvement in Vietnam winding down, other Detachments were moved or disbanded as follows:[3]: 113 On 1 July 1971 the entire 38th ARRS was inactivated.

[3]: 113 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency