Experience Of A US Air Force Surgical And Critical Care Team Deployed In Support Of Special Operations Command Africa

• DOI: 10.55460/meus-ar4j
• Publication Date: 2022-05-24T17:52:29Z
• Authors: Brian L Delmonaco; Aaron Baker; Jared Clay; Jeremy Kilburn
• Keywords: Medical evacuation; Special forces; Military deployment; Command and Control; Surgical team

An eight-person team of conventional US Air Force (USAF) medical providers deployed to support Special Operations Forces (SOF) in North and West Africa for the first time November 2014. The predeployment training, operations while deployed, lessons learned from challenges performing surgery evacuations remote desert environment Chad Niger on continent are described. vast area far-forward posture these teams requires cooperation between partner African nations, French military, SOF make effective surgical critical care Africa. continuous deployment USAF since 2014 Command is challenging will benefit more air assets provide casualty evacuation across operations.