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Family in Flight: Air Force siblings team up for medical readiness exercise
April 22, 2025 — More than 40 U.S. Airmen and Air National Guardsmen participated in Operation Vapor Trails, a recurring medical readiness exercise centered on aeromedical evacuation, on March 28, 2025...

Afghanistan CCATT mission a ‘not-so-routine’ operation
January 19, 2023 — Aug. 26, 2021, was a terrible day of bloodshed and destruction near Hamid Karzai International Airport, Kabul, Afghanistan, when a suicide bomber killed an estimated 170 Afghans and 13 U.S. service members. That same day, shortly after the bombing, U.S. Air Force Maj. (Dr.) Dominick Vitale, Brooke Army Medical Center critical care/trauma surgeon, and the remaining members of the Critical Care Air Transport Team, or CCATT, were on the first aircraft to land and evacuate the severely injured to Ramstein Air Base, Germany...

BAMC pediatric CCAT mission helps save critically ill child
October 14, 2022 — A team from Brooke Army Medical Center recently flew to Guam to transport a critically ill boy to Rady Children’s hospital in San Diego for treatment...

59th Medical Wing performs first CCATT training mission
January 19, 2022 — The 59th Medical Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland performed the first-ever in-flight Critical Care Air Transport Team training mission Jan. 12...

No effort spared to bring home seriously wounded Soldier
October 2, 2019 — Over four days, three aircraft, 18 medical specialists, including from the 59th Medical Wing at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, more than 24,000 gallons of fuel, and 100 liters of blood were committed across an 8,000-mile journey to a single goal – saving the life of one Soldier...

59th MDW CCATT team flys mother, baby home safely after 7 months in ICU
June 14, 2019 — Her anxious brown eyes stare large around her. The red jump seats, wires, oxygen masks, bare sheet metal and overall cold, dark interior of a C-130 Hercules are not comforting to the young mother whose 7-month-old son is out of an intensive care unit for the first time...

59th Medical Wing's CCATT flight makes three point turn
July 25, 2018 — The 59th Medical Wing executed three back-to-back aeromedical transport missions departing from Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland July 19, making coast-to-coast stops before returning home two days later...

59th Medical Wing executes five missions at once
May 1, 2018 — The 59th Medical Wing orchestrated five air transport missions simultaneously during the week of April 16-2o...