Click image to enlarge |
"The CASEVAC team is a rare breed
of corpsman taken from units literally all over the world. We have
Corpsman from Japan, III MAW, Naval Hospitals like Portsmouth Va and
Jacksonville Fl, and units in NC and SC, like II MAW, II FSSG, and
II MARDIV. HMM-264 is known as the Black
Knights. The CASEVAC team does not belong officially to any unit,
but directly to the MEF. |
|
| We
affectionately call ourselves the " Flying Ligers".
This is more of an ongoing joke than anything. We have no official
name but "Flying Ligers" will work. Let me just say
that It has been a real pleasure serving with the men and women of
HMM 364. We were immediately accepted into the family and treated
like "veteran" CASEVAC corpsman and a welcomed part of the
crew. The crews did not treat us like a bunch of " new guys"
or "outcast", in which we were expecting. They helped us
learn our way around all the unfamiliar territories that surround
CASEVAC and the other missions of 364, and even showing us how we
could further help the unit by acting more like a crew member and
less like passengers. |
Click to learn more |
|
|
|
Creating
the memories and friendships with these very professional men and
women will always stand out in our minds as a great experience, and
for the first time, a bunch of us can actually say "we made a
difference" directly speaking. This is a new animal that the
Navy and Marine Corps is trying to tackle. We are not the first, but
thus far we are the first officially trained and best equipped CASEVAC
team that has ever deployed with the NAVY/Marine Corps Team. I hope
that this information helps you and I will get a Picture to you soon
of the CASEVAC patch that all the corpsman and crew wear with honor.
Thank you for all your help and we all looking forward to the next
3 months."
HM2 (FMF) Jeremy Moore |
|
| |
