It employs by any means available to provide combat and humanitarian search, rescue, and medical assistance in all environments.

The squadron was inactivated in February 1969[1] and ite mission transferred to the Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Training Center.

It supported the 3636th Combat Crew Training Wing, which conducted the Air Force's advanced survival school at Fairchild, while continuing to fly search and rescue (SAR) missions.

[1] The 48th was reactivated at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico in 1993 and for the next six years flew combat search and rescue missions.

[1] This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency