Despicable Europeans still angry that cowboy Bush toppled Saddam find nasty ways of getting even:
"American transports flying badly wounded U.S. troops back to the United States, often ask European air controllers for a more direct flight path through European air space. This is in order to get the wounded soldier or marine to the American hospital more quickly. This is particularly useful when the aircraft have been turned into a flying ECU (Emergency Care Unit), and doctors are actually treating the seriously wounded in flight. The European air controllers rarely allow the direct flight."
Many of these flights are direct from Iraq to the Army hospitals in San Antonio.
Via Op-For
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 