Call sign "Dustoff"
Subtitle: a history of U.S. Army aeromedical evacuation from Conception to Hurricane Katrina
By: by Darrel Whitcomb
Publisher: Borden Institute
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Frederick, MD
Language: eng
Subjects: United States; United States. Army. Medical Service Corps; Transport of sick and wounded; United States. Army; Helicopter ambulances; History
Description: "Explores the conceptualization of the initial attempts to use aircraft for evacuation, reviews its development and maturity through conflicts, and focuses on the history of the MEDEVAC post-Vietnam through Hurricane Katrina"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Fulfilling a need : from Conception to combat; title: An honorable heritage; title: From Korea through Vietnam; title: Domestic duties & contingency operations; title: Quiet years, 1973-1980; title: New challenges : near and afar, 1981-1990; title: An angry decade; title: Desert Shield/Desert Storm, 1990-1991; title: Force reductions, 1992-1995; title: The Balkans, 1992-ongoing; title: Into the millennium : new challenges, at home and abroad; title: To 9/11, 2000-2001; title: Again, into battle, 2001-2003; title: Aviation transformation and domestic operations, 2003-2005; title: Warriors of compassion; title: Appendices; title: List of MEDEVAC units; title: Typical history of an ARNG MEDEVAC unit; title: MEDEVAc losses post-Vietnam era through Operation Iraqi Freedom.