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Air National Guard from the 129th Rescue Wing at Moffett Federal Airfield, California, conducted a successful medical evacuation of a critically injured US citizen in La Paz, Mexico, on 24 October. The rescue team flew on an MC-130P Combat Shadow to provide assistance to the injured twenty-eight-year-old male who had been involved in an automobile accident in Mexico. The aircrew had to fly around tropical storm Paul as the medical crew provided life-saving medical aid during the 2,000-mile flight to Moffett. After the aircraft landed, the patient was transferred by ambulance to a hospital in Sunnyvale, California. This rescue brings the total number of people saved by the 129th RQW to 558.
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