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...medical team had flown out of Somalia to Landstuhl with a planeload of injured servicemen, leaving behind a skeleton staff in the 40-bed battlefield hospital. "There was no system to fly critically ill people in the air; we had to create it on the ground," says Colonel John Holcomb, one of only two Army surgeons left in Somalia that day, which was memorialized in the film Black Hawk Down. They performed 34 surgeries in a nonstop 36-hour stint. Haunted by the event, Holcomb and others began pushing for change. Army and Air Force commanders together argued that...
...wartime that included a permanent fleet of airborne intensive-care units (ICUs). Although the plan was expensive, the commanders believed it was the surest way to save lives. "Before that, the traditional way was to keep casualties on the ground until they were stable," says Holcomb. By then, many were dead. Today, the Air Force has about 110 active-duty ccatt teams, many of which have logged tens of thousands of kilometers shuttling between Baghdad and Landstuhl. The aircraft are fitted with the same kind of sophisticated medical equipment that would be found in any high-tech...
DIED. LUTHER HOLCOMB, 91, minister who worked for racial integration in the 1950s and '60s and who 40 years ago last week met President John F. Kennedy at the airport in Dallas and later announced to a shocked crowd that the President had been shot; in Henderson County, Texas...
...second time they've met in the playoffs (1/7/95: Pitt. 29, Cle. 9, at Pitt.). The Steelers won both regular-season meetings between these AFC North squads by only three points, yet they're the biggest favorites of the first round, at 7 1/2 points. Browns QB Kelly Holcomb fills in for the injured Tim Couch in the franchise's first playoff appearance since returning to the NFL in 1999. He performed admirably (111.0 rating) in splitting the first two games of the season as a starter, but the Browns' offense now focuses on rookie RB William Green...