Civilian medical personnel stand by with a stretcher and wheelchairs as a helicopter carrying "casualties" lands during Exercise WOUNDED EAGLE '83. The exercise is designed to test the Civilian-Military Contingency Hospital System, a program for transferring wartime casualties to civilian hospitals in the event they overflow military facilities
Summary
The original finding aid described this photograph as:
Subject Operation/Series: WOUNDED EAGLE '83
Country: Unknown
Scene Camera Operator: Mickey Sanborn
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
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civilian military contingency hospital system
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mickey sanborn
us national archives
Date
15/06/1983
Source
The U.S. National Archives
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