International Rescue Symposium
Welcome to your week.
Capability exchange, interoperability, and partnership across the Pacific.
13 to 18 July 2026
Waikiki Beach Marriott Resort & Spa, Honolulu
Capability exchange, interoperability, and partnership across the Pacific.
You are here as a participant in the inaugural International Rescue Symposium, hosted by United States Pacific Air Forces and led by the U.S. Air Force Pararescue community. This week brings rescue operators, planners, senior leaders, and industry partners from across the Pacific together in Honolulu for exchange, exercise, and teamwork.
Personnel recovery is the mission of finding and bringing back people in trouble: downed aviators, mariners in distress, and communities struck by disaster. Across a region as vast as the Pacific, no nation does that alone. Over the week you will share how your teams organize, train, and equip for rescue, and put it into practice through live exercise and team events, building the relationships that make combined rescue operations succeed when the call comes.
This is a working symposium built on operator-to-operator exchange, not a spectator event. Share everything you can, take note of anything that would strengthen the next one, and leave with people across the community you can call. The goal is simple: recover more people, in more places, faster.
Exchange how your teams run search and rescue, personnel recovery, and humanitarian response across ocean, jungle, mountain, and urban terrain.
Work through common procedures, communications, and trust so partner forces can operate together from day one of a crisis, not week three.
See it live at the capabilities exercise off Waikiki Beach, and put teamwork to the test at the Monster Mash and team events.
Note what would strengthen future iterations and share it on the feedback page. Your input shapes the next symposium.
Symposium activities are planned and executed in coordination with federal, state, and local agencies to keep participants, the public, and waterways safe.
