(Helicopter Noise – Bagram, Afghanistan)
Captain Dawn Herron // Medevac Pilot 9:27 I’m very proud, I’m proud to be medevac, when I was in flight school about to graduate I remember a medic asked me are you a 67J, which is my MOS, air medical evacuation officer, and I said yea, and he told me I was crazy, but I think we are all a little crazy, you have to be for this mission set
(NATS – air traffic control)
Staff Sergeant Vitaly Tsaregorodtsev // Flight Medic 31:24 we are trained to do only one mission and that mission is to take care of the wounded and sick on the battlefield
(NATS)
Captain Taylor Pearce // Medevac Pilot 4:35 we are able to evacuate patients within what is called the golden hour so we ensure that person if they’re injured they get evacuated within one hour to the next level of highest care
Throughout Vietnam, Desert Storm, Operation: Iraqi Freedom and in Afghanistan - Dustoff medevac units have saved the lives of thousands.
Captain Michael Sudweeks // Medevac Pilot 17:22 I would do no other job in the army, never regretted the tr ack I’ve taken and never regretted this mission, it is good knowing that every time you take off every time you fly you are doing good for somebody
Captain Dawn Herron // Medevac Pilot 9:49 we fly without weapons, we fly with this big red cross, it could be an easy target but we are out here every single one of us in this company wants to save lives, American lives, coalition lives, it doesn’t matter to us
Date Taken: | 03.15.2018 |
Date Posted: | 03.31.2018 11:19 |
Category: | Package |
Video ID: | 592392 |
VIRIN: | 180315-N-QG671-131 |
Filename: | DOD_105461760 |
Length: | 00:01:20 |
Location: | BAGRAM, AF |
Downloads: | 38 |
High-Res. Downloads: | 38 |
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