Air Force Reserve Command airmen with the 445th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio, have finished their fourth four-month rotation operating from Andrews AFB, Md., as aeromed recovery and movement central. Flying on available C-17, C-130, or KC-135 aircraft, the Reservists pick up patients overseas, transport them to Andrews for care at Washington, D.C. area military medical facilities, and finally transport them to other US destinations for follow-on care. Comprising five five-person aeromedevac flying crews and 10 ground support crews, the Reservists handled 25-plus missions per week. Maj. Christopher Paige, medical crew director instructor at Ramstein AB, Germany, says, “No other medical organization in this country or the world, for that matter, is moving patients like these people do.”
The use of a military counter-drone laser on the southwest border this week—which prompted the Federal Aviation Administration to abruptly close the airspace over El Paso, Texas—will be a “case study” on the complex web of authorities needed to employ such weapons near civilian areas and the consequences of agencies…
