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Hello

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and welcome to Around the Air Force .

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The Arab medical evacuation mission is

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a life saving capability . The Air

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Force provides for all services . The

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training equipment of procedures are

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constantly being refined to help save

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the lives of wounded service members

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all over the world . Staff Sergeant

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Greg Bluefin went on one of these

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missions to Iraq and shows us how the

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medical teams are also working on their

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bedside manner long before receiving

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patients from down reigns on this

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aeromedical evacuation mission . The

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medical team prepares for the day's

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flight . With the trips at the

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commissary . Medical crew is taking up

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foods to prepare for the patients to

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help make their flights to Ramstein Air

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Base a little more enjoyable when we

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load them on . They usually come on

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with the bottled water in an M . R . E .

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Enough to get him through the flight

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comfortably . But these guys are heroes

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so we want to treat them to a little

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bit more . And that's the basic concept

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for the treats for troops program

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providing wounded service members was

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something more than they'd expect

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during their medevac flight . They

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haven't had any real home cooked food a

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long time And that's where we get a lot

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of our ideas . Uh that's where we get

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the sentiment rolls and coffee sausage

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biscuit and things like that . So they

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have to take the home even though it

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may seem like a small thing that little

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taste of home can make a difference .

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Didn't feel welcome , feel like uh

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before the patients get some rest on

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the long six hour flight back to

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Germany . The medical team prepares and

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serves them hot food to start their

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flight off on the right foot . The TLC

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that the medical crew gives the

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patients can often give them the

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positive motivation they need to start

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their long road to recovery . Staff

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Sergeant Greg Bluesman a lot Airbase

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Iraq . For more . On today's top

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stories log onto Air Force like .