Wounded soldiers airlifted

A flight crew members from a C-130 prepares for a mission into Iraq to deliver much-needed medical supplies. Photo by CPL Darren Hilder

AN Air Force C-130 Hercules became the first Coalition fixed-wing aircraft to conduct an aero-medical evacuation out of the newly opened Baghdad International Airport.

The C-130 flew to Kuwait to collect a US medical team, comprising a nurse and two medics, then picked up two wounded US soldiers from Baghdad. The two patients were delivered to a US hospital in Kuwait.

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