Vehicle Extrication In Iraq
This is a great article about some Air Force firefighters in Iraq and a training evolution they recently went through (from Stars and Stripes).
ALI BASE, Iraq — The blood and broken bones may have been fake, but the metal was bona fide real, Soviet steel.During a training mission at the Ali Base “bone yard,” a team of Air Force firefighters and an Army air ambulance crew practiced the sweaty art of vehicle extraction on a junked Russian truck before airlifting a simulated victim to safety Monday.
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The airmen went to work hacking the door off the truck and then, along with an Army medic, examined Vansteel and prepared him for the helicopter trip to the aid station. As Vansteel screamed over the roar of the helicopter engine, the team loaded him into the helicopter.
You don't want to miss this article. Read the whole thing.
Posted April 7, 2006 10:03 AM · Link
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