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med·e·vac (md-vk)
n.
1. Air transport of persons to a place where they can receive medical or surgical care; medical evacuation.
2. A helicopter or other aircraft used for such transport.
v.
To transport a patient to a place where medical care is available.

medevac,
abbreviation for medical evacuation.


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[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] "The next thing I knew, some of the guys were around me, and the corpsman and my platoon sergeant had me medevaced out.
Within two days, father and son had been medevaced to Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, traveling on the same plane as injured Soldiers, while Corpuz and her younger son organized their emergency move to the States.
Back in the US, patients medevaced from OIF/OEF front lines are loaded onto buses bound for yet other hospitals and more treatment.
 
 
 
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