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Since the Vietnam War, MEDEVAC has drastically reduced battlefield mortality. Cutting the program would jeopardize this ...
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Fort Rucker is back
The name Fort Rucker has officially returned to the Home of Army Aviation. The ceremony to redesignate Fort Novosel to Fort Rucker occurred early Thursday morning in the post’s Army Aviation Museum.
Although MedEvac was utilized in World War II, it wasn't until the Vietnam War that aeromedical evacuation really made history, he added.
The remains of a U.S. Army soldier from Hazel Park that was killed during the Korean War has been recovered and identified.
But as part of the the Air War College simulation, the prospect of an aerial medevac for American troops was reduced to near zero through a conventional strike against a U.S. air base in South ...
Used primarily for medevac missions during the Korean War, the Sikorsky HO5S-1 was also an observation platform, artillery spotter and troop transport. Dane Penland It began life as a two-place ...
Since the Korean War, US soldiers have become accustomed to rapid "medevac" by purpose-built medical vehicles, ships, or aircraft.
One of the questions remaining at the end of of World War II was what to do about the Korean peninsula.
For American audiences, the Korean War is often called “the Forgotten War.” But in South Korean cinema, it has never been forgotten.
The US expressed frustration Wednesday that North Korea is continuing to refuse to allow teams into the reclusive country to recover the remains of American casualties from the Korean War.
From the Korean and Vietnam Wars, to Iraq and Afghanistan, the medevac helicopter swooping down to save the wounded has become a cultural icon. In World War II, 30 percent of wounded soldiers died ...
JBSA-FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS—On Sept. 26, 2024, President Joe Biden signed the “Dustoff Crews of the Vietnam War Congressional Gold Medal Act” into law. This gold medal recognizes the pilots ...