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Show THE SAMPLER, Friday, August 22, 1980 moir winds, pilot (CW3) Frank Kanauka, By SSC Fhd Hale co-pil- ot PFC Kenneth L. Stout ami Parame- dics Bob Pagnani and SP4 Carlos Macias set down in the mouth of a narrow steep canyon to evacuate the brother to LDS Hospital where he later died of his injuries. THE OTHER major response was to the site of a civilian plane crash near the Fish Springs Mountain Range. Two Califomiaqs experienced difficulty on a trip to Colorado and made a crash landing 22 In a brief ceremony on the front lawn of the Utah State Capitol, Governor Scott M. Matheson offi- cially honored the aircrews and medical personnel from Dugway Proving Ground. unit Dugways "Mini-MAS- T utilizes three UH1H helicopters from Michael Amy airfield and paramedic personnel from the U.S., Amy Health Clinic at Dugway to perform any rescue or medical evacuation they are called upon to handle. MILITARY missions have resulted in the successful rescues of five Air Force pilots who have crashed in Come to me Crewchief SGT Barry Farquhar guides the second safe for in a landing on the Capitol lawn. helicopter One such MAST unit is at Ft. cessfully. CPT Ed Gore, Crewchief miles East of Callao. This rescue was fraught with me- i "SOMETIMES we. curse the sensitivity of that detector says Kanauka, but if a gear box in the engine were deteriorating, wed be pretty glad to know about it before it caused an engine failure in flight. The third recent mission for the Mustang crews was to assist the Tooele County Sheriff in getting his men quickly to the top of South Willow Canyon to .search for a mother and daughter believed lost in the mountains. They were later found to have hiked over the mountain to Skull Valley' where they hitched a chanical problems, first with the ride back to Tooele. Dugway Chopper and then with the Chopper from LDS hospital that of the MEDEVAC Other also responded. As it turned out, the teams are flights the vicinity of Dugway. Proving more routinely those that Ground. The MEDEVAC crews Dugway Chopper picked up the two chi Dugway. have pulled them from snow swept crash victims ami, after stopping at originate mountain peaks and from mud flats the health clinic for fuel, continued BECAUSE OF our isolation, on to LDS hospital in Salt Lake City in the Great Salt Lake desert. many of the cases that come into the One facet of the MEDEVAC where both are recovering; health clinic must be transferred to mission here is the assistance to the In addition to their other skills, either the Hill AFB, or to local law enforcement authorities the crew on this rescue, SGT Barry civilian hospital at hospitals in Salt Lake City. when called upon to assist in rescues. Farguahr,- CW3 Edward Helquist, When the doctors at our clinic deem During the past month, our CW3 Frank Kanauka and parame-- . it necessary, these are flown out crews have been called upon three dies SP5 Donald J. Halsey and Roaboard the MEDEVAC helicopter times to assist in these efforts. bert Pagnani also had to have a little In the last month there have been 15 TWO OF these attempts retraining as maintenance personnel as missions of this nature. ceived statewide press, the first inwell. On the way to the accident volved the rescue erf an injured minscene, a chip light went on. This er near Ibapah, west of Dugway. At the beginning of this article light indicates that something has A father and his two sons were been detected in the oil that could we dubbed the MEDEVAC team a outfit. MAST is the setting a dynamite charge in the face signal deterioration of metal parts in of a gold mine when static electrithe engine, and requires that the en- acronym for Military Assistance to city generated by a thunderstorm in gine be shut down and the chip de- Safety and Traffic and was founded the area touched off the 50 sticks of tector be pulled to see whats the 10 years ago. The MAST concept TNT killing one brother instantly, matter. In this instance it was a provides for the use of military aviawounding the father and injuring the piece of fuzz about the size of a hu- tion and medical assetsHo be used in man hair which was cleaned oft, the an emergency to assist local comother brother critically. thundernumerous detector and the heli- munities who are without comparDodging crossand storms fighting tricky copter completed the mission sue- - able civilian resources. - -- Mini-MAS- T ed, . Carson, Colorado. THE 57 1ST Aviation Detachment (Helicopter Ambulance ) at Carson consists of 6 aircraft, 6 crew-chief14 pilots (4 Commissioned, 10 Warrant) and 8 medics. During June, they responded to a total of 25 missions. s, To contrast this with Dugway, we have 3 helicopters, 5 pilots (2 Commissioned, 3 Warrant), 2 and no medics assigned to the airfield. During June they flew 35 crew-chie- fs -- missions. To perform the MEDEVAC missions, the airfield draws on the resources of the health clinics ambulance section and outpatient clinic which has 14 medics available. IN THE TRUE spirit of the RESHAPE concept it can be said that we are making the most of what we have. . . and then some. Dugways MEDEVAC crews, whether they are the pilots, the crewchiefs or the medics are quick to point out all the missions are a team effort. In the case of the helicopter crews, without the mainten- ance and tower personnel there would be no flights. The same holds true with the medics. Medical evacuations would not be successful without the support of all of the employees of the clinic, either military or civilian. Although the MEDEVAC cap- ability of Michael Army Airfield is an important one, the main mission continues to be the support of testing at Dugway Proving Ground. Sir, 'Id like to present. . . LTC Michael Moore, Chief of the Dug-wa- y Flans and Operations Directorate introduces the crews to Governor Matheson. At the Capitol. Tourists at the State Capitol had quite a treat, first watching as the two Duewav landed and then got to see the inside of a working MEDEVAC helicopter. Mustangs For the Team Michael Aimy Airfield Commander MAJ Lucius Wright accepts Governor Scott Mathesons congratulations for the continued efforts of the entire MAAF team. & V hi jpr W'1 i) . Ill o ?gfr-- al,i i.rjt VJ1 1 , ' K ' "tiSl ' ' .. 4 T'- . V 9 v.s. y b: th 4m. JVV J. ' (j v y MAJ Bert WQde, Administrator of the Dugway Health Clinic accepts a letter of congratulations horn Governor Matheson on behalf of the staff of the clinic . c laOVemorMatheSOn 7 (center) is nirrounded by the MEDEVAC team and their families for a last weB deserved addition to the scrapbooks of idL : ' 5iVViViw noun shot 1. n k--a ' -- . V a . s f 4 pr"k f f, a 4 J |