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FW: Gulf War created need for better critical care



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Subject: Gulf War created need for better critical care
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2016 05:32:52 -0600
From: mhs@service.govdelivery.com

Gulf War created need for better critical care
Health.mil
01/20/2016
CCATT1

Gulf War created need for better critical care

January 2016 marks the 25th anniversary of Desert Storm, it also marks a turning point in Air Force Medical Service's Critical Care Transport Teams. "We were not serving the Army as well as we could have in the Air Force," explained Lt. Gen. Paul K. Carlton, a former Air Force Surgeon General who had been working on the concept of CCATT since the 1980s. 

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