ENTRY DESCRIPTION
Air rescuers of the 15th Wing, a special and exclusive Italian Air Force unit: just a little over 200 have been trained in the last 50 years. The department is operative 24/7, with intervention times ranging between 30 and 120 minutes. “We intervene by helicopter", they say. "Once we arrive, we locate the victims, we descend, we rescue and secure them and then we bring them up. We expect no thank-you; it's our job, but we often read their gratitude in a gaze or a gesture. And this really makes us proud”. Climbers and frogmen keep going when others stop.

AUTHOR
Through his photos, he has told the reality behind the scenes of news stories and social and sports events for a decade. Being keen on anything one can drive fast on the roads or fly fast in the sky, over the last few years he has specialized in the auto and aviation industries. A photographer and a journalist, Alessandro was born in Rome 34 years ago. Today he lives in Milan.

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