Agusta To Handle Systems Integration For Italian Army
Chinooks
Boeing and AgustaWestland signed an agreement this week in
Farnborough for the joint manufacture of new CH-47F Chinook
helicopters for the Italian Army.
Though the notion of transporting patients to medical treatment
by air usually evokes images of helicopters, transport aircraft
such as the C-130 Hercules, KC-135 Stratotanker and C-17
Globemaster III allow medical personnel to care for larger numbers
of patients over longer distances, at higher altitudes, with a
greater ability to care for the seriously injured.
About 500 Civil Air Patrol members, including a great many
cadets, are enhancing their skills at the National Emergency
Services Academy, a multidisciplinary training program held July
26-August 9 at Camp Atterbury, a 35,000-acre Indiana National Guard
facility in Edinburgh, IN.
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