HawkDriver

I flew Medevac in southern Afghanistan for a year (after your incident). I've been in and out of Afghanistan for many years, but doing that job was the worst. I'd guess we picked up around 1-2 people in your condition a day during fighting season. It's hard to express what it was like, after picking up people with missing body parts who are barely alive, and having the medic scream at us (the pilots) to go faster because this one... this one might make it. Of course, we can only go so fast and our blackhawks took alot of damage from being pushed to their limits. Glad you made it. Best of luck on your recovery.

I believe your thinking about CSAR, not Medevac. Although, they do play a small role in helping with Medevac in Afghanistan.

We did use the dustoff callsign. You can read about the history here.

You can read a little about it on an old article on NPR. Article

Basically when things heat up, the winter months are much less active.