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the world famous purple boxes . Carfax

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Squadron out of alta Academy . Iraq are

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writing another chapter in a long

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history of life saving missions dating

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back to the Vietnam conflict . Purple

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box has been around for a long time to

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get the moniker of purple boxes in

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Vietnam where they were doing our

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Kazakh missions and general support of

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the marines and other places like that .

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We got the name of purple boxes . They

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would go anywhere to go retrieve any of

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the grains are soldiers in the most

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purple hearts of my squadron in Vietnam

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itself , among the most highly

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decorated squatters in Vietnam ,

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operating within the Al Anbar province ,

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the area with the highest level of

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violence , Al Qaeda activity in Iraq .

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The members of the three 64th Purple

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Fox's work hard to live up to their

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reputation . We get a call that happens

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over the alarm here and we have about a

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five minute window where we go load up .

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The birds are here is already pre

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staged and from there we just go out to

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the point of injuries or if it's a

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facility transfer , we take the patient

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from one facility to the next . Higher

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level care , usually blotter Baghdad ,

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they know that teamwork within the

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squadron is essential for mission

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success .

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Witnessing the consequences of violent

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action cannot be easy for anyone .

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People . Foxes realized that the job

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that they perform Makes all the

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difference in saving lives . We can

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quickly the aircraft because we noticed

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somebody gets injured and these are

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help . So when it goes , one might tell

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the aircraft in the air as quickly as

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possible . And probably most rewarding

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thing is finding a marine that our

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soldiers in the field and getting them

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back to emergency care within the

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Golden Hour Squadron . You have a pulse

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when you throw you on the aircraft ,

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you have 99.5% chance of survival .

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They know well that many human lives

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are in their capable hands are point of

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injuries . We go out and rescue anybody

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that's wounded from Iraqi civilians ,

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insurgents all the way up through our

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Navy Marine corn Army team , Usually

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the corpsman or medic in the field ,

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has already treated them initially .

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And it's our job to keep them alive in

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the back of the helicopter so we can

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get them to advance care . They know

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how important it is to have a tight

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unit that runs a tight mission .

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The Anbar province right now there's uh ,

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back be something happens here . We

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can't support that mission , thanks

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very much coming home around here and

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come back up . So , uh , just as best

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we can even see flying a pretty old

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aircraft , there's still flying strong

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and uh , keep on doing

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over there . Army private Rihanna

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Douglas of the economy .

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Iraq