Not nearly the most exciting press release ever..but it's been kinda dead in here. Needed to post something:
http://www.d8externalaffairs.com/go/doc/425/947647/
http://www.d8externalaffairs.com/go/doc/425/947647/
It's not always that simple. Yes, MEDEVAC is between levels of care and CASEVAC is from point of injury to first site with surgical care. However, if you've got advanced life saving equipment on board, or are a dedicated platform (Army 60's flying with a protected symbol) then even a CASEVAC mission can be considered MEDEVAC. Of course, these definitions are all because of LOAC rules, whereas inside CONUS and the USCG doing the mission means there's no need to get nit noid about it.Wouldn't that technically be a cas-evac? Medevac is form one med facility to another, casevac is from somewhere to a med facility.
It's not always that simple. Yes, MEDEVAC is between levels of care and CASEVAC is from point of injury to first site with surgical care. However, if you've got advanced life saving equipment on board, or are a dedicated platform (Army 60's flying with a protected symbol) then even a CASEVAC mission can be considered MEDEVAC. Of course, these definitions are all because of LOAC rules, whereas inside CONUS and the USCG doing the mission means there's no need to get nit noid about it.
We pretty much call everything we do on deployment MEDEVAC...By the way, remind me what that "protected symbol" does for us. Perhaps it should be a red crescent, or something like that....Army 60's flying with a protected symbol...
We pretty much call everything we do on deployment MEDEVAC...By the way, remind me what that "protected symbol" does for us. Perhaps it should be a red crescent, or something like that.