4410 OPERATIONAL SUPPORT WING (P) CONTINGENCY HISTORICAL

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    this hub so that if the patient needed further treatment,
    they would not have to take another flight to get to one
    place in a country where there were -141s flying out.
    
    The design was that there would be four hubs in this    
    country, and KXMC was the furthest north. I think that when
    the numbers came up, probably of the tac part of the hubs,
    KKMC was the busiest. I don't know how the numbers are
    going to work on the strat hubs. We have seen between 600
    and 700 patients in our tac hub.
    
    What happened for us, when we got here, we landed; I had
    done two quick site surveys. I met the MAC ALCC [Airlift
    Control Center]. That is another thing that I think
    absolutely needs to be emphasized; that the medical
    facilities be located and be in contact with MAC ALCC
    people. They are invaluable in helping this mission get
    started; and the communication, the fact that they can talk
    to aircraft way ahead of time and give us a heads up and get
    us to the point where, by the time the plane lands, we are
    ready to take those patients out there, when time is of the
    essence.
    
    So, we landed, met the MAC ALCC people. We were the first
    element of Med Base America, which is what this whole hub is
    called. Because of that, we were very fortunate in many
    ways. I have a few regrets about that, which I will talk
    about later, but when we first got here, we mapped out our
    property. It was recommended from the Air Evac Control
    Center that we ask for a lot of about lOOx200 feet, which
    was totally impractical, way too small. I talked to another
    MASF [Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facility] that had been
    established, and they encouraged me to try to get a lot more
    property than that, so I did. I got about 200x300 feet.
    
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