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MEDEVAC RECAP USAMRMC, PEO Aviation collaborate to upgrade


MISSION: Black Hawks with lifesaving capabilities by Charles Paschal T


he bulk of the Army’s medical evacua- tion (MEDEVAC) missions are carried  helicopters. These older models, from


the 1980s and 1990s, are being reconstructed and put back into service. The upgraded helicopters, referred to as “Recap Black Hawks,” support most military missions while the newer models are 


The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel   - ager Utility Helicopters (PM UH) in Program      collaborated to develop and release the Recap       of


the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency (USAMMA), dedicated to managing the mission


equipment package for MEDEVAC, is working directly with PM UH to provide medical and logistical expertise.


     MEDEVAC, formed in 2010, has the mission to  Hawk helicopters. Currently, PMO MEDEVAC has the goal to refurbish more than 335 Black Hawk helicopters by 2020.


The amount of work that must be done on these helicopters to prepare them for redeployment is a challenging and time-sensitive task, for which a great deal of coordination in required.


   MEDEVAC Black Hawks will be deployed to the- ater to support the combatant commanders.


CHALLENGING RESCUE SGT Daniel Buzard reaches out to steady himself against SPC Mark Jordan during MEDEVAC hoist training May 9 on Forward Operating Base Salerno, Khost province, Afghanistan. MEDEVAC crews face extraordinary terrain challenges in mountainous eastern Afghanistan. Hoist operations are often the only way to rescue injured Soldiers. Older MEDEVAC Black Hawks use an internally mounted rescue hoist, which takes up a large portion of the medical treatment area in the helicopter, but the Black Hawks are being upgraded with an externally mounted hoist. (Photo by SSG Donna Davis, Task Force 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs.)


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