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Landstuhl Regional Medical Center provides outstanding care to patients evacuated from Iraq and Afghanistan. Patients receive further treatment while awaiting evacuation back to the United States. PROBLEM: Landstuhl, as capable as it is, reaches a threshold of effectiveness around a census of 100 medical/surgical patients. New capabilities and processes require development to optimize Landstuhl's effectiveness. METHODS: Statistical analysis showed the effects at Landstuhl of large numbers of casualties experienced downrange. Case studies of emergency direct aeromedical evacuation from the Middle East to the United States showed the feasibility of using this as a method to bypass Landstuhl when reaching the limits of its capabilities. Analysis of current aeromedical policies and procedures help to develop the communications and coordination required it initiate a bypass mission. FINDINGS: The USAF is tactically capable of direct Middle East to the United States aeromedical evacuation. However, its impact on global mobility would require judicious use of the method. CONCLUSIONS: Direct flights from the Middle East to the United States would help alleviate patient census at Landstuhl, given the casualties numbers from past battles in Iraq and Afghanistan. In the case of a concerted enemy effort to inflict harm on US military members in the Middle East, this method alone would not completely alleviate a bottleneck at Landstuhl and further means of increasing capabilities in Europe require more exploration. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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