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Uh , you are executing an immediate

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urgent mission . The marine element in

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a small island of Taiwan coast has been

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taken , has taken casualties . The only

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way for you to get there will be the

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CMD 22 . It's the only platform that

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will reach out and be able to extract

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the patients . For us in uh aeromedical

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evacuation , it's great for us to train

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on different aircraft like the Osprey .

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We have our standard aircraft like the

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C-130 , the C-17 , the KC-135 , but if

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in case we're in a contingent

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environment where we don't have an

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actual runway to take off and land ,

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having something like uh the Beetle

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capabilities of the Osprey to be able .

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Take off in that helicopter-like

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standard is great because we can still

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move a lot of patients in that . They

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thought what we , the work we were

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doing was really really cool . They

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were asking us questions about , you

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know , the medical , medical things we

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were doing , and then we learned , you

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know , certain things about how to move

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around the aircraft and a few things ,

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um , same thing with the UH 60 , even

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though it is a medical platform and it

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is designed . To move patients , it's

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still different than we're typically

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used to , not much , but just little

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nuances here and there . For example ,

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they pointed out like if we're moving

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around , there's going to be lines much

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lower to our heads , so we might

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accidentally pull out an IV line or a

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calm line or something . Where we're

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not necessarily set in other aircraft

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because we can hang them above our

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heads and you don't have that that

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space limiting . So while it is

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designed with with medical movement in

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mind , the , the limiting factor is the

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familiarity and the comfortability with

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the aircraft itself . The thing about

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the airframe CV-22 and the UH 60s ,

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they're not pressurized , so for us ,

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you know , in an instance where we have

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a fire in a plane , we have to drop

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down altitude really quickly so we can

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air out the aircraft as well as do our

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emergency procedures . So it's another

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aspect to think about , you know ,

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sometimes doors are open , so you

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really have to keep in mind your

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environment . And how that affects your

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patient in the air and the space that

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you have is very limited , so sometimes

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you can climb with cargo and you got to

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make the most of what you've got . For

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me it was really cool . Never got to

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ride on a helicopter , so being able to

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say , hey , you know what , if I need

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to , I'm prepared . I'm confident that

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I can go take care of patients

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regardless of the situation that we're

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put in . So the UH 60 that we flew with

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was the was an Army aircraft , um , and

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they're out of Mississippi . They're

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actually also Army guards , so we're

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getting a lot of inter-service work

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here with the Navy with the Ospreys ,

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and then the Army with the UH 60s .

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When we were flying around on the Black

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Hawk , it has great capabilities ,

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although the Army , they primarily use

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that as a single medic . Uh , it's a

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little bit different than how we fly in

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Aerovacc . I think it's great

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capabilities for us to experience in

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case we ever need to backfill their

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positions or if we need to utilize that

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aircraft for our capabilities . We

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won't be transporting as much as we're

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used to on the C-130 , but it is great

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for us to at least have the training

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and the experience and the

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familiarization in case we ever need to

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use it in future environments . Are you ?

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With the C-130 mission today , uh ,

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which is our primary aircraft that we

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fly at the 146 , uh , we are simulating

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going to like a forward operating base

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or we are simulating going somewhere

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that is a contested zone to pick up

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patients and bring them back to an area

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of safety for a higher level of care .

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We are an asset to the Air Force , um ,

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not just for our medical expertise but

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also as an airman ready to fight the

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fight if we need to and defend our

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patients . Um , to defend our patients

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we need some type of weapon , so we're

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using the M18 as our primary weapon to

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be able to defend our patients .

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So here with the aeromedical evacuation

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squadron we have uh our flyers which

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are medic techs as well as our flight

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nurses who are mandated to carry

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firearms when deployed in a combat

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theater environment . What that entails

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is being proficiently qualified with

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the service pistol , which is the M-18 .

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All our flyers , which is enlisted and

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officers , both know the importance of

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carrying the firearms in defense of our

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patients . We're going into a mass

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casualty situation . We don't know

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anything about our patients . We don't

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know anything about our patient load .

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We just know that we're going to get

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people who are injured and we train to

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be ready for this type of mission .

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I think what's really important about

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these . We engage in is that it is

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accomplishing a lot of the objectives

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that are listed in like the joint

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publications by the Joint Chiefs of

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Staff but also in the National Defense

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strategy where there's been more

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movement to these interdepartment and

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within . The forces of the military

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working together , learning about each

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other's capabilities so that we can be

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best trained and utilizing everything

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together to um basically to best beat

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our adversaries and also continue to

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make sure that we are the greatest

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force in the world .