Original photo caption:

The "survivor of an airplane crash" is placed aboard a Stinson L-5 Liason airplane in the Rocky Mountains during training of students by the Para-rescue and Land Survival School of the USAF. Although the six-week course begins at the school's home station, MacDill AFB, Tampa, Florida, USA, the last two weeks are spent in the desert of western Texas, USA and the mountainous areas of the western USA. Graduate students who have been trained in jungle, arctic and desert survival and parachute rescue techniques, are assigned to worldwide units of Military Air Transport Services's Air Rescue Service.