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Captain steven smith Flight nurse

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assigned to the 10th E A F . Shabaan S

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H A V O N N E

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smith S M I T H . So we

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are our medical evacuation crew and

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were tasked with evacuating patients

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outside of areas to higher levels of

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character they receive at specific

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hospitals . So we're part of an air

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medical evacuation crew and were tasked

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with evacuating injured personnel to

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levels of care capable of taking care

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of their knees and injuries . So

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medical capabilities are very important

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to any operation and so that if any

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personnel , us military or any of our

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allies are injured , we can respond and

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assist them and so that they can

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recover and keep doing their jobs . So

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once we get alerted that there is a

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mission or that were needed to

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transport personnel , We participate in

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a crew brief and load our equipment and

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then we bring it to the aircraft and so

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once we arrive at the aircraft , there

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are a number of things that we take off

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and we load in these statues that you

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see here , we stepped up sanctions that

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we can hold our equipment , our medical

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equipment and then we also set up our

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spaces are little spaces to accommodate

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our patients . Military personnel can

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perform their jobs and their duties

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with the confidence of knowing that

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their medical personnel out here and

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ready to assist them as needed . This

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aircraft also comes with a built in

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oxygen systems and so we are able to

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provide therapeutic oxygen into our

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patients that require oxygen while in

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flight . We also have electrical

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capabilities and so that all our

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medical equipment can run off the

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electrical power during flight . If

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patients are in austere environments or

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forward deployed and they have to get

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transported from one location to

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another location capable of providing

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that level of care , then they would

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use an air evacuation medical crew to

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perform those duties . So you have

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medical personnel on the ground that

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may pick up patients from point of

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injury and transfer them to a smaller

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facility capable of providing some care

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but they may require more extensive

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care and that's when the aircraft come

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into place and transport those patients .

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For example patients injured in Kabul

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most recently um you will have to use

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aircraft to transport those patients to

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hospital type of facility capable of

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conducting care for those patients for

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days or weeks as required . You have

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patients that have gunshot wounds ,

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patients that have been in I . E . D .

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Blast patients that are pregnant

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patients that are experiencing

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respiratory or cardiac emergencies .

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Any type of medical emergency that you

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would typically see in the hospital .

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We will see added with the component of

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trauma emergencies . So I am a flight

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nurse and so a part of our air medical

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evacuation crew . The standard crew has

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to flight nurses and three aeromedical

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evacuation technicians . We are

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assigned to making sure that the

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mission runs smoothly taking care of

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our patients and making sure that they

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get the best care