Dick Fitzwell's account of their first "real" mission in the Stan.
Well we finally got the call yesterday. We were on our last day of alert flying a local mission rehearsal flight when they called us on SatCom with a tasking. A 7-yr Old Afghani kid was playing with unexploded ordnance and blew up his left hand. The location was at 7,800 ft msl and the weather was sketchy with thunderstorms int the area, and the moon would not be up at sunset so the Army asked us to take it. We headed up there and got in touch with an Army recon unit in the area who led us to a suitable landing area that was in a small village near a river. The approach wasn't bad, but the landing was dusty. We got the kid and his dad on board and headed out, then we got a call for another medevac enroute. We diverted over to another location and sent the wingman in to pick up a foreign military guy with heart palpitations and chest pain. The guys got in and out no problem, but turns out the guy was French army. We razzed them pretty
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00 Taxiing out.JPG
01 Army Humvee meets us in LZ with patient.JPG
02 Patient and escort.JPG
03 En Route back to Kandahar with the kid.JPG
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