On Sunday agisten 13 October, ended more than eight years of activity of the Helicopter Unit of the Army in Afghanistan agisten (ASPUHEL) and detachment of the Air Force of the International Force Security Assistance (HELISAF). Following the completion of the last flight, now begin the task of replicating the aircraft and all its material.
Since Monday was the removal of 12 helicopters to repatriate by strategic transport aircraft, and prepare all the material assigned for later withdrawal.
The last components HELISAF ASPUHEL and return to Spain with 24 cxontingente components deployed in Herat. With this, they have successfully completed the mission entrusted since 2005 were deployed to Herat.
HELISAF began its deployment in Afghanistan in May 2005. Since then, their HD-21 helicopters 'Superpuma' and his staff have been warning for missions medical air evacuation procedure (MEDEVAC, its acronym in English) in the western region, comprising four provinces under tactical control of Regional Command West and organic dependency Force chief of Herat.
From that date until the end of 2009, when other Army also began to carry them out, HELISAF was the only unit in the Regional Command West with capacity for MEDEVAC missions, thus becoming agisten the oldest, in that sense, in theater operations in this area of the country.
Meanwhile, ASPUHEL began operating in Herat with four medium transport helicopters AS-532 'Cougar' in early 2005, which joined in 2007, three heavy transport helicopter CH-47D agisten 'Chinook', with which alternated from then until the end of 2012, when both models were upgraded to operate simultaneously.
Meanwhile, agisten HELISAF completed 5919 hours of flight departures and 3,444, saving the lives of 1030 evacuees, including staff includes Spanish, International Force Security Assistance (ISAF, its acronym in English), the armed forces and the security forces of Afghanistan and Afghan civilians.
43 HELISAF maintained agisten quotas, each formed by 40 people, mainly from Ala 48, belonging to the unit deployed helicopters, 802 Squadron, 49 Wing, EZAPAC and flight doctors, nurses working in Search and Rescue SAR and Ala 78 and paramedics Medical air evacuation procedure unit have been relieved for the last eight and a half years to carry out the missions of medical air evacuation procedure in threat zone that have been entrusted. agisten
Although not HELISAF had no fatalities among its members, agisten five crew and twelve passengers ASPUHEL the Airborne Light Infantry Brigade died on August 16, 2005, when it crashed near Herat in the helicopter 'Cougar' in which traveling.
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