evacuation of casualties

Evacuation of casualties was made hazardous by almost continuous artillery fires from both sides.

Health services support includes medical treatment and evacuation of casualties, preventive medicine, and medical supply operations.

The battle was fought in a persistent monsoon rain for the first three days, making both resupply and evacuation of casualties difficult.

Coordinates the evacuation of casualties.

Rapid evacuation of casualties through the use of helicopters serving as air ambulances took place during the Vietnam War.

Long periods of silence were broken by sudden interruptions of fierce contacts, followed by the evacuation of casualties.

'Up' lines were for taking forward supplies and reserves; 'down' lines were for the evacuation of casualties and prisoners.

Using helicopter and tank fire to disperse enemy troops, D Company was able to secure the helicopter landing zone for the evacuation of casualties.

On Sunday 24th, shortly after a truce to allow the evacuation of casualties, Cain was alerted to the approach of a Tiger tank.

The aeromedical evacuation segment assists in the evacuation of casualties from operational theaters to hospitals in the continental United States.

Medical support to all units including evacuation of casualties by helicopter and provision of facilities for major surgery and treatment of serious medical / dental cases.

Operations included airdrop and landing of troops, food, and equipment; evacuation of casualties; and attacks against enemy airfields and lines of communication.

He showed great initiative in establishing forward regimental aid posts, reconnoitring their sites beforehand under heavy hostile shell fire, thus greatly assisting the rapid evacuation of casualties.

He personally led the attack on Buchen, including an attack on an enemy machine-gun post, and arranged the evacuation of casualties despite heavy and accurate enemy fire.

Wounded a third time and unable to walk, he steadfastly remained in a dangerously exposed area, deploying his men to more tenable positions and supervising the evacuation of casualties.

Business jets may be adapted for other roles, such as the evacuation of casualties or express parcel deliveries, and some are used by public bodies, government officials or the armed forces.

Rescue robots in development are being made to be able to search, reconnaissance and mapping, removing or shoring up rubble, delivery of supplies, medical treatment, and evacuation of casualties.

They performed various logistical and transport missions, such as the repositioning of Royal Artillery L118 Light Guns in the region and in the evacuation of casualties.

On 9 January 1945, she landed Army troops on the Lingayen beaches, and, once again, assumed responsibilities for the care and evacuation of casualties, this time to Leyte.

They have the capability to provide beach and surf zone salvage with use of their LARC-V vehicle and provide the evacuation of casualties, prisoners-of-war, and non-combatants.

Casualty evacuation, also known as CASEVAC or by the callsign Dustoff or colloquially Dust Off, is a military term for the emergency patient evacuation of casualties from a combat zone.

In the early days of the war, a U.S. Air Force helicopter detachment of the Third Air Rescue Squadron began to receive requests from ground elements for the evacuation of casualties from difficult terrain.

The evacuation of casualties was again an issue, and the Assault Pioneer Platoon-commanded by Lieutenant Jock McCormick-was used as stretcher bearers and to run ammunition forward, as were a number of the other specialist platoons.

While moving towards this area he received another radio message from Warrant Officer Wheatley to say that Warrant Officer Swanton had been hit in the chest, and requested an air strike and an aircraft, for the evacuation of casualties.

It performed troop carrier and air transport operations in the Far East, including landing of troops and cargo in forward areas of the combat zone, air transportation of airborne troops and equipment, and air evacuation of casualties.