High mobility patient transport alternative

As you can see, the Humvee is a very capable machine and useful for transporting the wounded, but it represents late 20th century technology.

On the current battlefield, high mobility is how the game is won. Due to budget constraints and the green energy movement we must evolve how we think about transporting our patients.

Below is what the next generation of patient transportation might look like in the United States Army National Guard. The National Guard is a great test arena for new techniques. Why, you ask? Because the National Guard has no money and must create ideas and tools out of thin air!

Notice how very patient friendly it is. Just look how happy our wounded soldier is!

A stolen litter from the CSH, some 550 cord and a bike.

As you can see from the picture it's light weight and has almost no emissions, unless you count the burrito bar from last night. It's highly maneuverable and can do something no other piece of transportation equipment in the inventory can do, bunny hop!

There is a CAV version as well, especially suited to the troopers!

These pictures were taken during one of the lulls in the testing. The pictures attempted during a moving trial were too blurry to make out the fine details of the event due to its speed.

Thanks Y'all, be home soon!

Government Motors

My Dream Truck?

Not really, but do you think this could be the future of GM?

It holds 4 people and about 300lbs of gear. They are all over here.

They get the job done here, you can see a guy sitting in the back seat, he said it was ok to take his picture. Great for service work, about the power of a gaitor. The tires are about the size of Luke's first bike.
Interesting how the world does things differently than we do. This truck would do nicely on a crowded narrow city road, don't think I would like it on the interstate. Don't think you would have to worry about speeding though.

See ya soon!

Evening at the JVB

A lovely evening out on the base, surrounded by water. Not filtered anymore but still nice. We went to the JVB for a re-enlistment ceremony for one of our soldiers. Who knew it would end up a night of merriment food and dancing.

These two, they were our adult supervision

Specialist Cornejo decided to re-enlist. She has been working as a clinic medic and also goes out with the CSC (convoy security companies) to protect convoys bringing in our supplies or taking them to other FOB's

Like all the medic she has been working hard and this is a special occasion, so why not celebrate a little.

This is the crew, they have helped see almost 2000 patient visits since opening our doors and have made the operation a success.

Thank you one and all!

After the ceremony why not dance. No better back drop on the VBC than the alfa palace. The food was pretty good too.

The palace

After the dance lesson we went on a tour of the Hotel. It was nice to see it again and share it with the crew. I won't bore you again with the pictures. You can look back at another post to see them.

Short but sweet this time, but I have a couple more to get in before we go. Thanks for following along.