NISSEN: Twenty-two hundred hours

NISSEN: Twenty-two hundred hours: Andrews Air Force Base in Washington, D.C. Patients are off-loaded onto buses

bound for Walter Reed Army Medical Center or Bethesda Naval Hospital. It is hard for the flight crew,

especially the older ones, to see them go.

GRIFFIN: You don’t look at them as some stranger that is on the other side of the world. You look at them as,

wow, this could have been my son or my daughter.

NISSEN: There is little time for reflection. Within hours, the medevac missions go again, back to Germany, back

downrange, back home with the latest casualties of work.

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BROWN: Since the work began, there have been 3,000 of these flights, 40,000 patients. They haven’t lost one

yet.

Please read that again: Mr. Brown noted that 40,000 of our troops were in serious enough condition to be

Medivac’d back to the United States from NIKE SHOX!