Paktika Province: The 2/10 Security Forces Assistance Brigade deployed several U.S. Army medical personnel as part of the Security Force Advisory Teams in support of Operation Enduring Freedom 13.
Currently U.S. Army medics are working to improve an integrated, capability-based health care system to triage, treat, evacuate, and return Afghan National Army soldiers to duty. The U.S. medics are helping the Afghans to excel through integration of medical planners, fielding an enduring sustainment system and enabling the Afghans to manage the development of their medical treatment facilities.
Medical evacuation can be a slow process by ground convoy movements, often times over long distances and sometimes through dangerous areas, but as the Afghan Air Force continues to develop and grow aerial evacuations are on the rise. |
