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        Policy UpdatesNewsroomReoptimizationBIOGRAPHIESAF Senior Leaders      C-5 with personnel for disaster relief effortsAETC Airmen deploy to aid in Hurricane Harvey relief efforts
                        
                        
                        Personnel from the 502nd Logistics Readiness Squadron load supplies and equipment on a C-5 Galaxy as part of Total Force hurricane relief efforts Aug. 30, 2017, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Approximately 70 Airmen from Air Education and Training Command departed JBSA-Lackland Kelly Field Annex to support the efforts. (U.S. Air Force photo/Ismael Ortega)
                
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        AETC Airmen depart Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in support of Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.AETC Airmen depart Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in support of Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.
                        
                        
                        Airmen from the 59th Medical Wing prepare deployment bags for transport Aug. 30, 2017, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Approximately 70 Airmen from Air Education and Training Command departed JBSA-Lackland Kelly Field Annex in support of Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. (U.S. Air Force photo/Johnny Saldivar)
                
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        AETC Airmen depart Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in support of Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.AETC Airmen depart Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland in support of Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.
                        
                        
                        Staff gt.Eric Reyes, Air Medical Operations Agency, ensures pallets loaded with medical supplies and equipment are secure Aug. 30, 2017, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Approximately 70 Airmen from Air Education and Training Command departed JBSA-Lackland Kelly Field Annex in support of Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. (U.S. Air Force photo/Johnny Saldivar)
                
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        CCATT deploys to HoustonKeesler CCAT Team deploys to Houston for Harvey relief
                        
                        
                        Critical Care Air Transport team members from the 81st Medical Group at Keesler Air Force Base, Miss., arrived at George Bush Intercontinental Airport, Houston, Aug. 31, 2017. CCAT team members traveled to Houston to assist local medical personnel with relief efforts following Hurricane Harvey. (U.S. Air Force photo/Senior Airman Keifer Bowes)
                
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        502nd Logistics Readiness Squadron personnel load pallets containing medical supplies and equipment Aug. 30, 2017 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas.AETC Airmen depart JBSA-Lackland in support of Hurricane Harvey
                        
                        
                        Members of the 502nd Logistics Readiness Squadron load pallets containing medical supplies and equipment Aug. 30, 2017, at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Approximately 70 Airmen from Air Education and Training Command departed JBSA-Lackland Kelly Field Annex in support of Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. A Critical Care Air Transport Team also accompanied the group to areas impacted by Hurricane Harvey. (U.S. Air Force photo/Johnny Saldivar)
                
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Keesler AFB medical team supports hurricane relief effortPublished Sept. 1, 2017
                    
                    By Tech. Sgt. Ryan Crane
                    
                    
                    81st Training Wing Public Affairs
            **KEESLER AIR FORCE BASE, Miss. (AFNS) --**An Air Force Critical Care Air Transport Team, and a supporting logistics team, from Keesler Air Force Base arrived at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Aug. 30, 2017, to support the Hurricane Harvey relief efforts.
The CCATT is made up of three members from the 81st Medical Operations Squadron: Maj. (Dr.) Allison Buel, Maj. Douglas Wilkerson, a critical care nurse and Staff Sgt. Kyle Gabrielson, a respiratory therapist. 
“Our primary mission here will be to fly patients from the Houston area out to a receiving hospital somewhere in the country to ensure they get the care they need,” said Wilkerson. “We are helping with the staging of any critical patients who need treatment while we wait for a mission to spin up.”
The logistics team from the 81st Medical Support Squadron is made up of two members: Senior Airmen Dustin Lewis and Jason Rambo, both medical logisticians. 
“We are integrated with our active duty and guard units from all over to help set up facilities and begin receiving patients,” said Lewis, the logistics team chief. “We manage the inventory of all products required by the CCATT and we ensure they get anything they need in an efficient manner.”
The CCATT, in collaboration with the logistics support, ensures patients are safely and quickly transported to higher echelons of care.
“Currently, the local hospitals are being overwhelmed with patients,” Wilkerson said, “and those patients are going to need to go elsewhere. If there are no local hospitals that can receive them, they will need to reach out and find a hospital that can take them. If they are critical, the CCAT team needs to manage those patients over the long flight.”
Taking advantage of any ‘opportune aircraft,’ the team will execute orders from up the chain of command and transport patients anywhere in the U.S. they require. But this is not just any flight. 
“When you consider the distance that you have to go in the air where you have partial pressure, turbulence, decreased humidity and an extended flight, all while transporting someone who is already unstable, you need a team of professionals who are already trained to manage patients in those unique conditions, and that is where the CCATT comes in.”
The scene on the ground at the Houston airport is one of controlled chaos Wilkerson explained.
“Multiple departments; active duty, national guard, health and human services...each individual component is organized and poised to support this effort,” Wilkerson said. “We are just working through the coordination between these agencies, but from what I have seen, there is a lot of cooperation between the different services because we all share the same goal which is to save lives.”
Lewis said he is seeing the same level of cooperation on the logistics side of the operation, too.
“We are all in this fight together,” Lewis said. “We are all wearing the same uniform and no one can tell the difference between the active duty or national guard, we all just want to work together to accomplish the mission.”Hurricane Harvey 



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