1. Short title This Act may be cited as the U.S. Air Forces Escape and Evasion Society Recognition Act of 2017 . 2. Findings The Congress finds the following: (1) During nearly all foreign wars, members of our Air Force have been forced to eject, crash land, or abandon their aircraft in an occupied country or territory (referred to in this Act as downed aircrew members ). (2) Those downed aircrew members had to evade capture by enemy forces, often times while suffering from critical injuries. (3) Of the downed aircrew members that were captured, many escaped from the enemy force that was holding them. (4) Many times, downed aircrew members were aided in evasion and escape by resistance organizations and patriotic nationals in those occupied countries. (5) Thousands of brave, ordinary people in the occupied countries took extraordinary risks at huge costs to help these aircrew members. (6) Each downed aircrew member’s story is different