Incredible report from Afghanistan correspondent Michael Yon that our Army Medevacs are delayed in getting to their patients (find it in the first four minutes of this Glenn Reynolds interview with Yon).
Delayed, that is, because they have to wait for Apache gunship escorts. Not because the landing zones are especially hot but because the Medevacs wear Red Crosses and the Geneva Convention doesn’t allow them to carry defensive guns.
Jeeze, Louise. All our Medevacs in I Corps in Viet Nam in 1969 wore Red Crosses and always carried door guns. The enemy there had no more respect for Red Crosses than the Taliban does now. So much for progress, eh? Visit Michael’s web site and consider helping defray his expenses so he can continue to tell these stories that are NOT being told elsewhere. I do and have for years now.
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Another case when Geneva Convention kills people without using weapons.
We were luckier in that one respect. Our Medevacs were fast and fearless. But, then, our old army was not politically correct.
I had a co-worker back in the 90s whose husband was a retired Army Master Sgt whose service branch was helicopters. In Vietnam he was assigned to a Medevac unit and his job was to man the door gun and provide covering fire for the wounded and the medics.