Aviation, Medical, and Graves Registration

Getting the casualty and the physician together as soon as possible is the keystone of the practice of combat medicine. In 1965, the Army implemented a new concept called Air Mobility. This new idea for warfare depended on the coordinated use of transport helicopters, gunships and air ambulances to move large numbers of troops by air rather than ground, to insert them and outflank enemy units. Remains were brought to two fixed and well-equipped mortuaries in-country, located at Da Nang in the far north, and in Tan Son Nhut, just outside of Saigon.