Best Soldiers for the worst days: Medevac crews in Afghanistan save lives day, night By Sgt. 1st Class Eric Pahon July 18, 2012 Spc. Bryan Heaston, 30, of Lusby, Md., observes the Afghan countryside ...

PASAB, Afghanistan (Oct. 21, 2012) -- When I was asked to meet and capture the lives of the medevac crews of Company C, 3rd Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment, 25th Combat Aviation Brigade, located at ...

New Hampshire leaders and National Guard commanders bade Godspeed to 45 soldiers Monday, sending them to Afghanistan in a moving ceremony that recognized that many were undertaking their third ...

The Helmand-based medevac team I traveled with - Charlie Company, from the 6th Battalion and 101st Aviation Regiment, known as Shadow Dustoff - is among the busiest in Afghanistan. Since the team ...

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan (AP) – It took a medevac unit 59 minutes to get U.S. Army Spec. Chazray Clark to a hospital in southern Afghanistan after receiving a call that a roadside bombing severed ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Associated Press photographer Brennan Linsley recently spent a week embedded with Charlie Company, from the 6th Battalion and 101st Aviation Regiment, known as Shadow Dustoff. He ...

Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, Oct. 11, 2011: Afghan air force flight medic Sgt. Gulap Ahmadzia pauses near a U.S. medevac helicopter at Mustang Ramp at Kandahar Airfield. Soldiers with Company C, ...

Of the hundreds they helped, it was the injured children who were the toughest to bear. Nineteen soldiers from Fox Company of the New Hampshire Army National Guard's 169th Medevac detachment are back ...

TIME photographer James Nachtwey photographs the men of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 214th RegimentPhotographs by James Nachtwey for TIME Members of Charlie Company of the 1-214th, known as ...

Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistan, June 15, 2011: Pfc. Kyle Hockenberry, of 4th Squadron, 4th Cavalry Infantry Regiment, 1st Heavy Combat Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, who was injured in an improvised ...