Word: medevac
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...Force Captain Matthew Miller wrote about the challenges of flying in Afghanistan after returning from a four-month deployment there in 2007. His medevac unit, from Georgia's Moody Air Force Base, had lost three helicopters and seven crew members in the two wars. Enemy fire had been a factor in none of the Afghan crashes. "In Iraq, helicopter pilots face a greater prospect of being shot at by ground fire," Miller wrote. "In Afghanistan, the greatest threat is the terrain." He described flying in Afghanistan as "'graduate level' piloting more challenging than cruising over the flatlands of Iraq...
...Force personnel were divided over the general's jape. "What an idiot," one airman fumed on an unofficial Air Force website. "I vote that we should pack our [stuff] and come home. Let the Army march to where they need to go, use artillery for close air support, and medevac on Fed Ex." A colleague agreed: "As the Big Guy he should be pulling us together, not widening the abyss." But one contributor claiming to be a more senior officer dissented. "Believe me, if the military is dumb enough to make me a General, you can bet your...
...careless with their ammunition, often expending it all in the initial moments of battle. More training and better equipment will help, says Jenkinson. "I don't think the ANA is lacking the ability to fight the close fight. What they are lacking right now is air support, logistics and medevac abilities. If we were missing that kind of support, we wouldn't be going out either." (See pictures of America's gun culture...
...Between them, his stories encapsulate almost the complete spectrum of the medical world - from preparing for medical-school exams to gritty night shifts; from the experience of being a medevac physician to treating an unforeseen, potentially fatal complication during childbirth; from shenanigans with the police in the emergency room to the terrifying first days of the outbreak of SARS...
...their relationship. Ming is now seeing Chen - another student and someone, as we find out later in the collection, whom she will marry - while Fitzgerald is left behind in Ottawa to retake his exams. In the finest story in the book, Night Flight, we see Fitzgerald, now a medevac doctor with an incipient drinking problem, fly to Guatemala to rescue a young man who has had a stroke. Tightly sprung and impeccably paced, the story's devastating ending is followed by a coda of such searing yet sympathetic honesty that you are left feeling winded by its flawed humanity...