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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. Casevac can be done by both ground and air. "DUSTOFF" is the callsign specific to U.S. Army Air Ambulance units.
The unit was the first to use the UH-1 Huey helicopter for aeromedical evacuation missions. It deployed to Vietnam in 1962 and became the first unit to fly the UH-1 in combat. It also adopted the callsign DUSTOFF in 1963, which became synonymous with Army aeromedical evacuation units.
Major Charles Livingston Kelly (10 April 1925 – 1 July 1964) was a United States Army helicopter pilot and medical evacuation unit commander during the Vietnam War.Because of the central role he played in the development of early battlefield evacuation techniques during the war—and the central role his death on the battlefield played in cementing those techniques in Army doctrine at a time ...
The primary FM net was composed of VRC-46s at the local Dustoff control stations and ARC-54s in the aircraft. The primary FM net was used to receive and relay Dustoff missions and for command and control of the aircraft. The UHF net was composed of VRC-24s at the local Dustoff control station and VRC 15s in the aircraft.
During the 1990 Gulf War (Desert Shield/Desert Storm), Eagle Dustoff (D Co, 326 Med Bn) was deployed to the Saudi Arabian Theatre of operations on Aug 22 1990 and was the first US Army Medevac unit in country. When Eagle Dustoff landed in Dhahran Saudi Arabia and unloaded the 3 UH60A Medevac birds from the C5A Galaxy, Eagle Dustoff immediately ...
In the days following the collision of a military helicopter and a passenger jet in Washington, DC, and the crash of a medevac jet in Philadelphia, federal investigators quickly expressed ...
He served his first tour in Vietnam flying medevac helicopters with the 283rd Medical Detachment. His second tour in Vietnam was with the 82nd Medical Detachment. During that war, Novosel flew 2,543 missions and extracted 5,589 wounded personnel, among them his own son Michael J. Novosel Jr.
Dr. Jonathan Shay, in his book Achilles in Vietnam The entire military is “a moral construct,” said retired VA psychiatrist and author Jonathan Shay . In his ground-breaking 1994 study of combat trauma among Vietnam veterans, Achilles in Vietnam , he writes: “The moral power of an army is so great that it can motivate men to get up out of ...