An Idaho Army National Guard helicopter crew from Detachment 1, Golf Company, 1st Battalion, 168th Aviation Regiment executed the IDARNG Aviation Group’s eighth successful search and rescue mission of 2025 on Wednesday. The unit responded with an HH-60M Black Hawk and crew to a request from Air St. Luke’s for a helicopter with hoist capability. The Air St. Luke’s aircrew had located the patient, a 55-year-old male with a broken leg on a ridgeline near Fiddle Lake on Trinity Mountain east of Boise. An initial assessment indicated that no suitable landing zone was available near the patient. However, by the time the HH-60 crew arrived on scene, the Air St. Luke’s team had located a suitable LZ, landed and hiked to the patient to assess him and provide first aid. Sgt. First Class Jade Parsons, the crew’s senior flight medic, was hoisted down and made contact with the Air St. Luke’s team at the patient’s location. After conferring, the joint team determined that with the landing zone and ...