Training wise

Really?

Yes. Training wise that is.

Oh

Real medevacs I move fucking mountains to make it happen

So do they.

Good

Love our medevac crews

Landed on a small deck with winds, pitch and roll all out of limits for a medevac

Do you guys have flight medics or i guess it would be corpsman

Yeah corpsmen

Called SMTs

SAR Medical Technicians

I want flight medic but they screwed up the civilian contract so bad

I was deployed with the navy in Bahrain. Little bitty island. On our side was desert and we lived in tents. On the other side of the island was the navy with brick dorm rooms and an American alley with fast food and a mall

hahaha

SMTs are corpsmen that get a flying billet

they train just like aircrewmen and earn their aircrewmen wings

but they also have to cover medic duties

and I love Bahrain

Ah our flight medics get more medical training and obviously flight crew duties

oh they still get lots of medical training

all of our crewmen should get basic medical training because they are all also qualified as SAR rescue swimmers as well

Yeah for special equipment and the challenges of treating a casualty mid flight

During flight you gotta worry about so many things like the casualty temperature with changing altitude

yup

ever considered dealing with an altitude or diving injury in flight?

Yeah I know it would be a challenged.

the effects of decompression sickness are exacerbated by altitude

Like decompress

Yeah

Typed it before I could lol

so if we ever medevaced someone with the bends we basically had to terf it all the way into the hospital

Or like HAPE

HAPE?

High-altitude pulmonary edema

oh alright

haven't had to deal with that

It’s rarer than decompression sickness but definitely deadly

The alveoli take in O2 and release carbon dioxide

But