Moments later, 54-feet of rotor blades chop the air, drowning out everything except the sound of radio calls in the crews' headsets. Amid the adrenaline-driven actions, each member of the crew runs ...
The US Army has come under pressure to assign its medical evacuation missions to general-purpose aircraft and crews. It must ...
PASAB, Afghanistan (Oct. 21, 2012) -- When I was asked to meet and capture the lives of the medevac crews of Company C, 3rd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, located at ...
BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) – It took a medevac unit 59 minutes to get U.S. Army Spec. Chazray Clark to a hospital in southern Afghanistan after receiving a call that a roadside bombing severed ...
New Hampshire leaders and National Guard commanders bade Godspeed to 45 soldiers Monday, sending them to Afghanistan in a moving ceremony that recognized that many were undertaking their third ...
Of the hundreds they helped, it was the injured children who were the toughest to bear. Nineteen soldiers from Fox Company of the New Hampshire Army National Guard's 169th Medevac detachment are back ...
TIME photographer James Nachtwey photographs the men of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 214th RegimentPhotographs by James Nachtwey for TIME Members of Charlie Company of the 1-214th, known as ...
Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, June 15, 2011: Pfc. Kyle Hockenberry, of 4th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Infantry Regiment, 1st Heavy Combat Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, who was injured in an improvised ...
EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press photographer Brennan Linsley recently spent a week embedded with Charlie Company, from the 6th Battalion and 101st Aviation Regiment, known as Shadow Dustoff. He ...
As the U.S. military prepares for the next era of conflict—most likely in the Indo-Pacific and against a peer adversary like China—Congress and the Department of Defense must ensure that ...
Konar Province, Afghanistan, Oct. 14, 2008: Sgt. Adam Connaughton keeps watch on a U.S. soldier badly injured by a roadside bomb. The soldier had few external injuries but likely suffered serious ...