08 February 2010

First MEDEVAC for Joint U.S., Afghan Crew

U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Richard Kramer and Afghan Sgt. 1st Class Ghulam Sakhi, flight medics with the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group/Combined Air Power Transition Force, discuss with an Afghan soldier through Shakira Azzizi, an Afghan translator, what is going to happen on a rotary wing medical evacuation from Bagram Airfield Feb. 3, 2010.

This rotary wing medevac is the first of its kind in Afghanistan, where a combined Afghan and U.S. crew takes Afghans from coalition medical facilities and returns them to Afghan facilities. Photo: Tech. Sgt. Jeromy Cross.


Afghan Sgt. 1st Class Ghulam Sakhi, flight medic with the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group/Combined Air Power Transition Force, looks after an injured Afghan soldier on a Mi-17 used for rotary wing medical evacuation missions Feb. 3, 2010. Photo: Tech. Sgt. Jeromy Cross.


A joint U.S. Air Force and Afghan National Army crew from the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group/Combined Air Power Transition Force, pilots a Mi-17 used for rotary wing medical evacuation missions, Feb. 3, 2010. Photo: Tech. Sgt. Jeromy Cross.


An Afghan solider with the 438th Air Expeditionary Advisory Group/Combined Air Power Transition Force, serves as the door gunner on a Mi-17 used for rotary wing medical evacuation missions, Feb. 3, 2010.
Photo: Tech. Sgt. Jeromy Cross.


Two Mi-17s used for rotary wing medical evacuation missions sit on a snowy helicopter pad in Gardez, Afghanistan, Feb. 3, 2010. Photo: Tech. Sgt. Jeromy Cross.

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