[MilCom] Medevac C-17 program on Nightline tonight

[Ken]

This was an outstanding tribute to the tiredless efforts that the combat 
support hospital personnel as well as the aerovac crews put in on those 5 
hour flights to Germany aboard the C17 aircraft carrying for some very 
seriously injuried military personnel.  BTW I think it was a joint AFRES & 
Active AF crew..  Interesting to see all the high tech portable medical gear 
that could be used with the patient.   Also interesting was the downward 
trend in mortality level (9%) as compared with Vietnam, Korea, & WWII.  Of 
course any death is tragic!!!

>From my past life attendance at the Joint Service Combat Casualty Care 
Course (C4) at Camp Bullis Tx, TShirt Motto  "There are no winners in wars, 
only survivors!!!"  -- It must be hell for those medics on the ground but 
the tactical aerovac system appears to be working well in most cases....

>From a monitoring perspective, not too many postings about folks monitoring 
these aerovac aircraft going to Germany.  I would think HF SSB would be used 
but perhaps they are using some data link terminals also.

Ken



----- Original Message ----- 
From: <AllanStern at aol.com>
To: <Milcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 12:11 AM
Subject: [MilCom] Medevac C-17 program on Nightline tonight


>     It is 12:08am EST (0508z).
>     Those of you in an earlier time zone will have a chance to watch a 
> good
> Nightline (Ted Koppel) program on ABC-TV.  The network had a news crew 
> aboard
> a C-17 Medevac flight from Iraq to Ramstein. Good interviews with some of 
> the
> wounded, with the flight nurse, doctors, etc.
>
> AL STERN  Satellite Beach FL