We're rushing to an urgent Medevac call 20 miles ... We're about 75 feet off the ground and 150 feet from the Humvees when the BlackHawk's rotors kick up dust and sand. "Call the dust," pilot ...

a UH-60A Blackhawk helicopter pilot for Eagle Dustoff. Units must send a Medevac request in order to get the Soldier the help that is required to keep him or her alive. The request is known as a 9 ...

The task of transporting leadership, via the UH-60 Blackhawk, is rather routine for ... the injured onto the two UH-60 Blackhawks. The dust-off team flew the injured to the Fort Irwin main post ...

the sister ship peeled off for an emergency landing. And some­thing heavy settled in the minds of Sabis­ton, Brodhead, Bringloe, and Capps, the crew of DUSTOFF 73: they were the only medevac ...

Editor’s Note: This is an excerpt from Blackhawk helicopter pilot ... Getting a wounded soldier off the ground and into the medevac aircraft by hoist meant he would have to climb onto a hook ...

Somewhere in the billowing red smoke that marked the landing zone and the choking dust ... to be off-limits to enemy fire. Afghanistan’s insurgents make no distinction. On one recent medevac ...

Instead, a U.S. Army air-ambulance medevac crew was dispatched to fly them ... both his legs gone, blown off by an IED, the signature weapon of the war. The flight medic works with fierce ...