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The U.S. Army's 68th Medical Company conducts over 300 Medevac and rescue hoist missions a year in support of the City and County of Honolulu. They provide 24 hour a day Medevac mission support to the military as well as civilian communities on Oahu. Weather permitting, they can fly to any location on the island within about 5 to 10 minutes from their base at Wheeler Army Airfield in Central Oahu. On a typical mission, they will land on a road, ball field, or in a park to pick up a victim of an accident, stabbing, shooting, surfing mishap, etc. Some of the less dramatic missions are hospital patient transfers, transportation of medical personnel, and transportation of blood or human organs. The most challenging missions occur when they use a high performance rescue hoist to pick someone off of a mountain cliff or out of the water. In 3 1/2 years here, I had 7 hoist and over 100 Medevac missions. It is a very rewarding experience to successfully complete one of these missions.
Don't drink and drive! But, if you do, make sure that you aim your car for a large immoveable object, and make sure that your car is totalled so that if you survive, you wont be back on the road anytime soon. Hopefully you will have plenty of time to grow up before you're turned loose in another car. You know who you are. 68th Med will find out who you are eventually, because you keep medevac busy every weekend. We're all for having fun and believe that everyone has a right to play in their own way, as long as no one else gets hurt in the process. Take another look at the photo above. You or someone you hurt could be the next one on that litter. When I was flying medevac I really didn't mind drunk drivers (as long as they didn't hurt anyone else). Without drunks, I would've only flown about 100 hours a year instead 200, and I might not have the job I have now. Enough said about that. Let me get down off this soap box and get back to the fun part.
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