Operational Medicine Alliance

US Defense Secretary Outlines 'State of DOD'...
defpro
Ramstein Air Base, roughly 10 miles from Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, is home to troops who manage much of the work in getting patients from medevac flights to the hospital for treatment, and from the hospital to onward movement after treatment, ...

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All-AF critical care, air evac team makes historic first flight
Air Force Link
This speed of response combined with the higher level of in-flight care provided by the CCAT team brings a much-needed MEDEVAC capability to the fight. "When we first started flying these types of missions, we flew with an Air Force pararescue team, ...

Flight engineer plays vital role in medevac missions in Afghanistan
DVIDS
Martinez is responsible for preflight, in-flight and post-flight checks of the aircraft. The flight engineer plays a vital role in the only fixed-wing medical evacuation missions flown for Operation Enduring Freedom. CAMP BASTION, Afghanistan - The job ...

Medivac company temporarily shut down
Royal Gazette
By Sam Strangeways Photo by Tamell Simons Ready to fly; Eloise Bell VP and chief flight nurse of Bermuda Air Medivac Bermudaís only air ambulance a Cessna Citation S-II. Bermuda's only resident air ambulance has stopped operating due to the low number ...

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Royal Jet adds to its Medevac fleet
Arabian Aerospace (blog)
The entire process begins with the Royal Jet Medevac team conducting high precision coordination starting with pre-flight assessment of the patient followed by necessary equipment coordination, ground transportation and in-flight medical care.

Missionary Aviation Fellowship's Dave Forney flies in Indonesia
Waynesboro Record Herald
Dave Forney, a Greencastle-Antrim High School graduate, is a Mission Aviation Fellowship medevac bush pilot in Indonesia. By Rachel Bryson Living in the jungle and facing the elements may seen like the stuff of movies, but it is everyday life for one ...

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101st Combat Aviation Brigade supports 82nd Airborne Division at Joint ...
Clarksville Online
A flight medic of 6th Battalion, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, lowers himself to the ground by a hoist mechanism installed on the UH-60A Black Hawk medevac helicopter to retrieve a medical patient of the 1st Battalion, 82nd Infantry Regiment, ...

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Army responds to medevac criticism
Fort Leavenworth Lamp
By Anonymous Recent news items about the use of Army medical evacuation, or medevac, helicopters in Afghanistan contain troubling information. The reporting suggests that putting red crosses on medevacs, and not arming them somehow, is putting injured ...
Debate on arming medevacs spills into CongressThe Virginian-Pilot

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Air ambulance looking to take flight
The Coloradoan
Poudre Valley Hospital Health System is launching a medevac program in a week, which will supplement other ones already in operation, like this North Colorado Med Evac flight run by NCMC. / V. Richard Haro/Coloradoan Library Tim Hutchison, Medical ...

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US Army rejects argument to arm medevac helicopters
msnbc.com
Those medevacs require an armed escort, which can lead to delays because of the high demand for helicopters. “Any policy commitment that would impede even a single wounded soldier or Marine from receiving medical care in the least amount of time ...

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