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The word "medevac" is correct in written English.
It is used to refer to the evacuation of a person from a remote or dangerous location for medical treatment. Example: "The injured hiker was quickly medevac'd to the nearest hospital." Alternatives include "medical evacuation" or "air ambulance."
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medevac
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The emergency transportation, usually by air, of patients to a medical facility.
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The Americans' presence is critical for the logistics, air support, intelligence and "medevac" they provide and for the continued flow of military and development aid.
Postwar efforts to fly helicopters as short-haul passenger transports foundered, although they became invaluable in specialized missions (medevac, police patrol, traffic monitoring) and in sundry utility roles.
Officials said the US medevac chopper called in to recover casualties came under mortar and small-arms fire and was hit.
And, if Coppola kept the plantation, he had to keep the Bunnies — a devastating new scene, as the boat draws up beside a medevac encampment, where the girls are lodged in refuge from the rain.
Lee fell unconscious, and he died on the medevac helicopter.
A series from embeds with medevac teams responding to firefight casualties feels like a continuation of his work on the prosthetics ward.
Women fly medevac helicopters, often descending directly into firefights to carry away wounded soldiers as they take enemy fire.
The company's first sergeant, Brett Robinson, monitoring radio traffic at the refinery, heard Blickhahn's call for medevac.
Body bags must have been in the stars because later the colonel announced that the heaters in the medevac helicopters were not working that well.
_____ Captain Ed Hrivnak, thirty-four, SpanaWashingtonngton, member of a medevac crew.
The ground levelled off at a baseball diamond, the spot where the helicopter had landed for the medevac.
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