medivacs
Battlefield ambulance flights
Medivacs are emergency evacuations of sick or injured people, typically by helicopter or aircraft, to medical facilities.
The term combines "medical" and "evacuation," originating in military contexts where wounded soldiers needed rapid transport from combat zones.
Now used broadly for civilian air ambulances: The medivacs arrived within minutes of the crash.
As a verb, to medivac someone is to transport them this way.
airlift
Emergency transport by plane
- helicopterRotary-wing aircraft
- casualtyPerson harmed in disaster
- woundedHaving sustained harm
extraction · stretcher · triage · rescue · ambulance · paramedic · dustoff · litter · combat · battlefield
care vs. harm in conflict
medivacsgunships
Armed military aircraft
attack helicopters · airstrikes · bombers · troop transports · strike aircraft