Word: medevac
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Dates: during 1965-1965
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...Texas. A medic with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Regiment of the Air Cav, Torres was standing by when a radioed cry for help came in from another company that had just been ambushed and decimated. Torres volunteered to go out with a rescue patrol, grabbed seven litters from MEDEVAC helicopters, and moved out. About 11 p.m. they found the wounded-some 45 men huddled around a giant anthill. On litters and on foot, 18 wounded got back. Torres searched out more wounded, then stayed on with them, using up all of his own morphine and bandages, then taking more...
...blast a landing zone the next day. Meanwhile the most seriously wounded were hoisted through the trees in wire baskets by rescue choppers hovering overhead. At first light next morning, seven more chain saws attacked the jungle, and at 10 a.m. the clearing was big enough for one MEDEVAC chopper at a time to flutter down and carry out the remaining casualties...
...takes plenty of heart as well as guts, and the MEDEVAC teams are known throughout South Viet Nam as "the gamest bastards of all." Their deep-chested, $250,000 "Huey" choppers (capacity: ten patients each) have evacuated 8,864 wounded troopers-, Vietnamese and American-since...
...process, he has rescued 800 wounded soldiers and carted home more corpses than he cares to remember. To help counter the pervasive stench of death and mutilation, MEDEVAC pilots and crewmen stuff their nostrils with Vicks VapoRub. And they are curiously unwilling to make friends with infantrymen. "You don't want to get too close to people when you know tomorrow they may be dead," Bloomquist explains. "There's no place for sentiment in this business...
...Bloomquist grimly says: "The red cross makes us that much better a have been higher but for the consummate skill of the MEDEVAC pilots. During one recent battle, Bloomquist found himself swooping in behind four fighter-bombers to pick up seven wounded Americans. Suddenly one of the escorting Skyraiders burst into flames from a ground hit, and its partners peeled away to protect it. All alone, Bloomquist's chopper-call sign "Dust-off 174"-touched down amid wither ing crossfire from Viet Cong .50-cal. machine guns. Bloomquist ordered his crew to load the wounded, calmly polished his sunglasses...