Ghazni PRT completes dust off training
GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Army Staff. Sergeant Prouty, helicopter pilot from, briefs the Provincial Reconstruction Team Ghazni members about the proper way to load and unload patients onto a helicopter during medical evacuation training July 3, at Forward Operating Base Ghazni, Afghanistan. This training ensures that the PRT can successfully help an injured personnel be evacuated without endangering the wounded or other PRT members. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Darnell T. Cannady, Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs)
GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan – Provincial Reconstruction Team Ghazni members carry a simulated patient to a helicopter during medical evacuation training July 3, at Forward Operating Base Ghazni, Afghanistan. This training ensures that the PRT can successfully help an injured personnel be evacuated without endangering the wounded or other PRT members. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Darnell T. Cannady, Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs)
GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan – A helicopter crew chief watches while Provincial Reconstruction Team Ghazni members rush to unload a simulated patient from a helicopter during medical evacuation training July 3, at Forward Operating Base Ghazni, Afghanistan. This training ensures that the PRT can successfully help an injured personnel be evacuated without endangering the wounded or other PRT members. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Darnell T. Cannady, Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs)
GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan – A helicopter crew chief watches while Provincial Reconstruction Team Ghazni members rush to unload a simulated patient from a helicopter during medical evacuation training July 3, at Forward Operating Base Ghazni, Afghanistan. This training ensures that the PRT can successfully help an injured personnel be evacuated without endangering the wounded or other PRT members. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Darnell T. Cannady, Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs)
GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan –Provincial Reconstruction Team Ghazni practice unloading patients from a helicopter during medical evacuation training July 3, at Forward Operating Base Ghazni, Afghanistan. This training ensures that the PRT can successfully move injured personnel on and off of a helicopter as a team. (Photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Darnell T. Cannady, Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs)
By Master Sgt. J. LaVoie
Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs
Ghazni Provincial Reconstruction Team Public Affairs
GHAZNI PROVINCE, Afghanistan - Whether injured in a rowdy party after your favorite team won the Stanley cup, or in a fire fight in Afghanistan, the key to a quick recovery is getting to the hospital as
quickly as possible. This is why PRT Ghazni recently took part in hot and cold load medical evacuation training.
The training, which covered things like loading patients into a running and static helicopter, as well as what the medical team is expecting, will allow Spartans to perform these tasks under pressure in the battlefield.
"It's an aspect of things you don't get to see unless something bad happens," said Pfc. Whitney Hyde, Provincial Reconstruction Team infantryman from West Tisbury, Mass. "It was good to see it in training."
By experiencing this in training, Spartans will be able to react quickly if the time to load someone on a medical evacuation helicopter ever occurs.
"It's important to get a casualty to the next level of care as quickly as possible," said Sgt. Dennis Magnasco, PRT medic from East Boston, Mass. "Having a familiarity with medivac makes that process much quicker."
According to Hyde, in addition to making loading a quick process, it also allows the medical personnel to focus on the right thing.
"The more we know what to do, the less they have to tell us what to do and can focus on our buddy," he said. "It also gave me more faith. From meeting the guys and seeing them explain things, it gave me more faith in their ability and confidence that they will take care of us if something happens."
The PRT medical staff hopes to make medical evacuation, as other medical training, a regular part of the PRT schedule.
"It may not be important to the mission, but to health and welfare it's critical," said Magnasco. "It's important so we all come home."
quickly as possible. This is why PRT Ghazni recently took part in hot and cold load medical evacuation training.
The training, which covered things like loading patients into a running and static helicopter, as well as what the medical team is expecting, will allow Spartans to perform these tasks under pressure in the battlefield.
"It's an aspect of things you don't get to see unless something bad happens," said Pfc. Whitney Hyde, Provincial Reconstruction Team infantryman from West Tisbury, Mass. "It was good to see it in training."
By experiencing this in training, Spartans will be able to react quickly if the time to load someone on a medical evacuation helicopter ever occurs.
"It's important to get a casualty to the next level of care as quickly as possible," said Sgt. Dennis Magnasco, PRT medic from East Boston, Mass. "Having a familiarity with medivac makes that process much quicker."
According to Hyde, in addition to making loading a quick process, it also allows the medical personnel to focus on the right thing.
"The more we know what to do, the less they have to tell us what to do and can focus on our buddy," he said. "It also gave me more faith. From meeting the guys and seeing them explain things, it gave me more faith in their ability and confidence that they will take care of us if something happens."
The PRT medical staff hopes to make medical evacuation, as other medical training, a regular part of the PRT schedule.
"It may not be important to the mission, but to health and welfare it's critical," said Magnasco. "It's important so we all come home."
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