Re: Trauma on the Nellis Range?

On Jun 17, 11:07�pm, "Lumpy" <lu...@digitalcartography.com> wrote:

Desert Shadow wrote:

... I hate it when I see one of those helicopters land
because it is usually not "good" for the patient...


These days lots of "lower level" triage patients are
flown instead of ground transported. Particularly when
it's a modest distance from the hospital. Doesn't really
mean a life threatening or serious trauma.

Not that a fractured femur is "good" for the patient, of course.

Craig 'Lumpy' Lemke

www.n0eq.com


Lots of helicoptering of patients around Nevada, especially from the
rural areas. However a military chopper certainly is unusual. The
bases have basic medical facilities, and there is that hospital near
Nellis AFB, but maybe they don't have an ER.

Mercy Air out of Mojave seems to do a lot of flights to Nevada. I
monitored a rather odd event years ago on the NTS trunk system. You
guys know the spot north of Creech. It has some long shut down bar, a
cell tower, and a shooting range of sorts. [Coyote something.] Now the
NTS fire department is "heavy rescue" for some areas along route 95.
So the call goes out to rescue some guy in a hole at the place north
of Creech, but not to enter until the police secured the scene. I
don't recall it exactly, but somebody was armed. Now the cops consider
Joe Homeowner and Joe Criminal to be the same if they are armed.
Basically, you don't enter a scene until you have the sole firepower.
So it could have been somebody holding a gun on a guy in a hole, or a
guy in the hole with a gun. Anyway, to make things more interesting,
Mercy Air staged at the Chicken Ranch. The pilot knew the place
well....uh because they stage there often.

Getting back to the range, prior to the Iraq war (Bush #2), the CIA
brought some Iraqi nationals to train for a diversionary attack to
start the war. I'm pulling this from memory, but it is in the book
"Hubris." The Iraqi nationals made up a team call the Desert
Scorpions, and the operation was called Anabasis. During the training,
some Iraqi was badly injured, and I wondered how they treated a person
who not only was in the country illegally, but in the US under the
aegis of the CIA. It could be as simple as a set of fake IDs generated
by the CIA. [Abdul Smith!]

So the NTS is boring generally, but weird stuff happens there since it
is big, relatively empty, and few people want to go exploring a
nuclear facility. Anabasis and the Clinton-era germ factory is stuff
that became public. You have to wonder what kind of crap goes on at
the NTS that you never hear about.