Aeromedical Training

Whether it’s after a natural disaster or in a war zone, military service members need to know how to safely move the critically injured on to aircrafts during a medical evacuation.
Air Force aeromedical teams are being trained on helicopter patient transfer. It’s all part of Southern Strike, the large military training exercise currently taking place at the Combat Readiness Training Center in Gulfport.
Army flight crews instruct airmen on how to load patients onto a Blackhawk without causing further injury.
Chief Warrant Officer 2 Joshua Bradford said, “We cranked the helicopter and got the blades turning, let them feel the real effect as far as off-loading and loading patients with all the noise and spinning blades and the wind and everything else that starts to come into play where it’s kind of downplayed as far as whenever you watch it or hear about it, now you actually get to take it in and feel it.”
Approximately 2,200 U.S. and international service members are participating in Southern Strike. Southern Strike will last for two weeks here on the Coast.