Aeromedical

Aeromedical documents the life-and-death struggle that takes place in the skies above Europe on Aeromedical evacuation missions, and tells the storied history of these life-saving flights. The US Air Force regularly runs aeromedical evacuation missions carrying wounded soldiers from current battlegrounds to the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany, often within hours of their injury. From there, the most seriously wounded -- many are amputee victims of IED explosions -- are transported to major US military hospitals, where they can arrive within three days of their initial injury. The survival rate is an astounding 98%. It has taken nearly 100 years, starting in 1918 with the first aeromedical rescue in a Curtis JN-4H Jenny bi-plane, to perfect this combination of medicine and aviation.