GEORGETOWN COUNTY -- The South Carolina Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team, or SC-HART, made its first rescue Friday.

Just before 3 p.m. Friday, the team launched a Blackhawk helicopter to a wooded swamp area near Winyah Bay in Georgetown County. A hunter had accidentally shot himself in the leg.

The crew lowered a basked to get the man out of the woods and brought him onto the helicopter, which flew him to Georgetown Airport where an ambulance was waiting.

"The outstanding and meticulous training our SC-HART personnel have completed paid off today," said Colonel Paul Horry, SCARNG state Army aviation officer, in a press release. "The entire mission was executed flawlessly. I'm really proud of what these professionals have committed themselves to, and how they completed the mission today."

SC-HART formed in September 2009. It's only the second program of its kind in the nation.

The team is a collaboration between Task Force 1 (Urban Search and Rescue Task Force - State Fire Marshal's office), Emergency Management Division and the South Carolina National Guard. The Army National Guard provides all the aviation assets and the hoist operators. Task Force 1 provides the trained rescue technicians who rescue the injured.