CASF Team improves operations
Senior Airman Cyril McKenney, left, and Airman 1st Class Dennis Nellessen, 451st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Detachment 1 Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility aerospace medical technicians, search the bag of a wounded Marine for any potentially dangerous or contraband items during an anti-hijacking check prior to loading wounded Marines onto a C-130 Hercules at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan, May 26, 2011. Airmen McKenney and Nellessen are deployed from the 633d Medical Operations Squadron, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va. Airman 1st Class Dennis Nellessen, 451st Expeditionary Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron Detachment 1 Contingency Aeromedical Staging Facility, aerospace medical technician, searches the bag of a wounded Marine for any potentially dangerous or contraband items during an anti-hijacking check prior to loading wounded Marines onto a C-130 Hercules at Camp Bastion, Afghanistan. The CASF team is responsible for taking care of patients and transporting them from the staging facility and hospital to a waiting aircraft who are then taken to the next level of medical care. Airman Nellessen is deployed from the 633rd Medical Operations Squadron, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va. (U.S. Air Force photo by Master Sgt. Adrian Cadiz/Released)