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When an emergency occurs out in the field, a 9-line and fast Medevac could save a life. Petty Officer Justin Rouse reports.
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Garuda Shield 2014 is a continuation of ongoing efforts by US Army Pacific to engage with the Tentara Nasional Indonesia on peace support training capacity and stability operations. 

Reporter:
Medics and pilots are always on call when an emergency strikes. Even during a training exercise.

Sb: Sgt Kyle Zobel (flight ops NCOIC):
Right now we are on the first call medevac for the FTX site for 2-1 infantry guys and if anything happens to them, they get snake bites or gunshot wounds, anything like that; we are here to help them out and give them the attention that they need.
We haven’t had any calls, any real life calls yet. We have been doing exercise every day, so that we make sure we are current and we are proficient at what we are doing.

Robert Veach (medevac pilot)
My purpose out here as a pilot is to support medevac missions. In the event that a soldier gets wounded during the training out here, we will fly them out to the nearest treatment facility.
Our time frame is from the moment we get notified medevac, we are up by fifteen minutes. Which is actually a pretty long time, we are usually well inside that time frame.

Sb: Sgt Kyle Zobel (flight ops ncoic)
When we first receive a 9-line, whether it is a part of our pace plan for primary or alternate contingency emergency. And what we normally do is that once we receive the 9-line we will either receive it on the radio or on the phone. After that we will contact our crews, yell “medevac, medevac, medevac!”. Our crews will immediately start running towards the aircraft. The PIS and the crew chiefs will go out to aircraft. We will have the PCS, they’ll come in here and receive the 9-line with us. So once they receive the 9-line they are able to run out to the aircraft and just take off from there.

Reporter:
Petty Officer Justin Rouse, Asum Bagus, Indonesia. Soundbites from:
00;00;00 Mc2 Justin Rouse, reporting
00;00;00 Sgt Kyle Zobel (flight ops ncoic)
00;00;00 Robert Veach, medevac pilot.

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