US Army aircraft conduct Puerto Rico medevacs

The US Army has issued a photo series highlighting the role its air crews are playing in helping the citizens of Puerto Rico by conducting aeromedical transport missions.

The images were shot on 20 October, as a team of Task Force Iron Eagles, composed of two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters from the 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, and one MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor from the Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 264, transported patients requiring medical care. The VMM flew the patients from Saint Thomas to Roosevelt Roads Naval Station, where they were then taken to the hospital ship T-AH20 USNS Comfort, which lay off the coast of Puerto Rico, by the 6-101st General Support Aviation Battalion.

Such air medical co-ordinations occur daily as all of the armed service branches work together assisting the local and federal responders caring for the health of those impacted by Hurricane Maria, said the US Army.

(US Army / Capt. Tyson Friar, 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs)

Staff Sgt Christopher Anzaldua, a critical-care flight with the 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division cares for a patient onboard a HH-60 Black Hawk helicopter enroute to the T-AH20 USNS Comfort (US Army / Capt. Tyson Friar, 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs)

A litter team approaches the helicopter to unload the patient on the T-AH20 USNS Comfort (US Army / Capt. Tyson Friar, 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs)

Staff Sgt Christopher Anzaldua helps to unload the patient (US Army / Capt. Tyson Friar, 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs)

Flight surgeon Capt. Benjamin Stork, 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, cares for a patient onboard an HH-60 Black Hawk helicopter enroute to the T-AH20 USNS Comfort (US Army / Capt. Tyson Friar, 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs)

Critical care paramedic Staff Sgt Christopher Anzaldua (left) and flight surgeon Capt. Benjamin Stork, both with the 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, prepare to board an MV-22 Osprey from the Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 264 to transport patients requiring medical care (US Army / Capt. Tyson Friar, 1st Armored Division Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs)