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Re:My War (1982) by Animats on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @02:48AM (#40655312)
> I'm not sure medevac is still a thing.

Not the way it was for US troops from Vietnam to Afghanistan. Getting injured people out of the combat zone is much tougher. The combat zone is deeper. The first kilometer is now about as tough as it was before helicopters. Doing something major for a patient in the "golden hour" after injury is often not possible.[1]

[1] https://journals.lww.com/journalacs/fulltext/2023/08000/putt...

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Re:My War (1982) by KineticLensman on Wednesday June 12, 2024 @10:05AM (#40658320)
Yes. Western ops in Afghanistan and Iraq - where we had total airspace domination - exhibited a best case view of medevac - all the way up to mobile operating theatres in Chinooks flying to the point of need. A full-on high intensity conflict between peer adversaries would be nothing like this.
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