Medevac mission highlighted in Chronicle feature

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SAN ANTONIO (AFNS) --  An Air Force Reserve crew from the 349th Air Mobility Wing at Travis Air Force Base, Calif., carried out a medevac mission earlier this year accompanied by a staff writer and photographer from the San Francisco Chronicle. The feature, written by Carl Nolte and documented with images and a video by Carlos Avila Gonzalez, provided an in-depth look at a medical evacuation mission from start to finish.

The account begins as the C-17 Globemaster III is flying into Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan. Mr. Nolte thoroughly documents the time on the ground there, then the flight to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center near Ramstein Air Base, Germany, and then the return trip to the U.S. During this leg of the flight a critical care medical team joined the crew to tend to five critically wounded servicemembers bound for hospitals in the Washington, D.C. area.

An editor at the paper has given Air Force Link permission to link to the Chronicle story. By clicking here for "Aboard U.S flying hospital," viewers can read the story, and see the photos and the nearly six-minute video that documents the flight. 

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