Veterans of the United States Army’s Dustoff medical evacuation aircrews will receive a Congressional Gold Medal for their extraordinary heroism and life-saving actions during the Vietnam War.
3,000 aircrew members of this elite group flew medevac helicopters into the jungles of Vietnam to rescue and transport wounded United States military personnel from the battlefield to medical facilities.
These brave men had a one-in-three chance of being killed or wounded when flying rescue missions in Vietnam, and over the course of the war Dustoff saved 900,000 lives.
18 and 19 year old men flying unarmed helicopters into battle, at night, in the rain, and multiple times a day, to rescue our wounded and fly them back to medical facilities.
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