Litter training key to patient handling

Airmen from the 386th Expeditionary Medical Group prepare to lift Capt. Loree Lunsford during litter management system training Feb. 18 at a Southwest Asia air base. The training familiarized medics on the loading and extracting techniques of patients for medical evacuation missions in support of operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Captain Lunsford is a nurse from the 386th EMDG. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Patrick Dixon)

Litter training key to patient handling

Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Clayton Deese instructs Airmen from the 386th Expeditionary Medical Group while Capt. Loree Lunsford waits on a litter to be transported during litter management system training on a Navy MH-60 Sierra Feb. 18 at a Southwest Asia air base. The training familiarized medics on the loading and extracting techniques of patients for medical evacuation missions in support of operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. Captain Lunsford is a nurse from the 386th EMDG. (U.S. Air Force photo/Staff Sgt. Patrick Dixon)

Joint medical training

SOUTHWEST ASIA -- Staff Sgt. Christi Kolis, Capt. Kevin Ramsey, and Maj. Adrienne Goodknight (back right), from the 386th Expeditionary Medical Group, move a member from the Japan Air Self-Defense Force from an U.S. Navy MH-60 Sierra helicopter during an Air Force, Navy, and coalition litter management system training class at an air base in the Persian Gulf Region Feb. 18, 2008. The training familiarizes medical personnel on the loading and extracting techniques of patients for medical evacuation missions in support of Operations Enduring and Iraqi Freedom. (U.S. Air Force photo/ Staff Sgt. Patrick Dixon)

Deployed Dover Captain, coalition members undergo patient-handling litter training

Published Feb. 25, 2008