Image Gallery 2010

29 June 2010
ADF Medical Personnel Contribute to Operation Voodoo

As part of Operation Voodoo, the Australian Special Operations Task Group contributes a number doctors, nurses and medics to a U.S. Aero-Medical Evacuation (AME) team based in Tarin Kot, southern Afghanistan.

Operation Voodoo is the AME component of the U.S. Task Force rotary wing detachment, part of the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade, based in Tarin Kot. The Operation conducts AMEs in and around Uruzgan province in Southern Afghanistan.

The combined American and Australian AME team regularly conduct missions to evacuate wounded and injured Coalition soldiers and Afghan local nationals to ISAF medical facilities in Tarin Kot and Kandahar Airfield.

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A US Medevac helicopter taking off at Tarin Kot with an escort Blackhawk soon to follow for a casualty evacuation mission.

(Date taken: 09 June 2010)
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A US Medevac helicopter landing at Tarin Kot.

(Date taken: 09 June 2010)
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The crew from a US Medevac hellicopter conducts post flight checks after a Medevac mission.

(Date taken: 09 June 2010)
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A US Medevac escort helicopter door gunner scans the landscape during an aeromedical evacuation mission.

(Date taken: 10 June 2010)
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The view from the side door of the escort Blackhawk hellicopter, during a mission to evacuate an injured Afghan child.

(Date taken: 10 June 2010)
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US Medevac hellicopter lands at Tarin Kot as an ambulance waits ready to take the incoming patient to a Medical Facility.

(Date taken: 10 June 2010)
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Sergeant J with and a US medic, carry an Afghan child to an ambulance after an aeromedical evacuation mission.

(Date taken: 10 June 2010)
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