Tag: Veterans

NJSP NorthSTAR AW-139 | We Serve To Save

On  April 29th & 30th the Military Transport Association of NJ vehicle show and swap meet has a special event on Sunday April 30th to honor Vietnam UH-1 Huey pilots, flight crews, combat medics and nurses.

New Jersey State Police Aviation Unit will land the AW-139 medevac NorthSTAR EMS helicopter at the Military Transport Association of New Jersey military show on Sunday April 30, 2023. Landing 11:00AM at the Sussex County Fair Grounds in Augusta, New Jersey.

University Hospital New Jersey proudly staffs the medical component of NorthSTAR in conjunction with NJSP and the New Jersey Department of Health. NorthSTAR is a Agusta AW-139 medicvac-equipped helicopter piloted and maintained by the New Jersey State Police Aviation Unit. University Hospital, Newark, New Jersey are part of the flight crew – -UH-EMS Flight Paramedics and Flight Nurses provide advanced life support care while in air transit to speciality hospital centers. All University Hospital medical flight personnel are highly-experienced Air Life Support providers that have rigorous training in air-medical operations and advanced trauma life support. NorthSTAR also provides air support for search and rescue operations. It is based at Somerset Airport in Bedminster, Somerset County, New Jersey.

Flight planning, logistics, communications and the Landing Zone are  coordinated by U.S. ARMY Advanced Combat Medic [1970], Frank Shane – -Vietnam War Military Operating Speciality – MOS, Fort Sam Houston, Texas. He also founded – M38A1JeepUS – a humanitarian military initiative that provides education, support and Post Traumatic Stress resources to veterans and their families. www.NJSP.org  www.M38A1Jeep.us @M38A1Jeep

Huey UH-1 medevac and combat helicopters served during the Vietnam War. 7,013 were deployed and 3,305 were destroyed. In total, 1,074 Huey Pilots were killed, along with 1,103 flight crews with combat medics. According to Frank Shane, U.S. ARMY Advanced Combat Medic [1970], “During the Vietnam War, the pulsating sound of in-coming Huey chopper rotor blades let ground soldiers know that rescue and medical care was approaching to save the wounded soldiers.” After talking with New Jersey State Police NorthSTAR pilots, Shane said, “Uniformed services like some of the New Jersey State Police are military veterans.” The Frankford Volunteer Fire Department provide fire, safety and landing zone assistance. 

Frank Shane [U.S. ARMY Medical Corps – Fort Sam Houston 1970] on the AW-139 NorthSTAR with a future veteran wearing a 1968 Vietnam UH-1 Combat Gentex Helmut. The NJSP flight and landing zone logistics were coordinated by M38A1Jeep.us  Photo: Carlos Varon

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About New Jersey State Police Aviation Unit:
The New Jersey State Police NorthSTAR operates a fleet of five Agusta Westland AW-139 medevac helicopters. They are piloted and maintained by the NJSP Aviation Unit, along with a UH-EMS flight paramedic and flight nurse who provide advanced life support care while in transit to specialty hospitals. The state-of-the-art multi-million dollar aircraft are powered by twin Pratt & Whitney turbo shaft engines and are outfitted with forward looking infrared cameras, aerial hoist equipment, a nightsun searchlight, state of the art avionics systems and multiple radios allowing the NorthSTAR pilots and crew to communicate with EMS, hospital trauma centers, fire & police and emergency agencies throughout the state. @NewJerseyStatePolice  www.NJSP.org

About M38A1 Jeep United States:
M38A1 Jeep United States – a humanitarian initiative providing education, support and PTSD resources to veterans and families. Post Traumatic Stress, the invisible wounds of war  . . .  for many veterans the battle of PTS begins when returning home from the battlefield. Unlike physical wounds, these wounds don’t bleed. They remain invisible and unseen to other service members, to family members, and to their community. All these conditions affect mood, thoughts, and behavior; yet these psychological wounds often go unrecognized and unacknowledged.  www.M38A1Jeep.us @M38A1Jeep

COPYRIGHT & LEGAL NOTICE: Photographs, Video, Audio & Multimedia productions on the M38A1Jeep.us website and blog posts are copyright protected © 2023 - All Rights Reserved Worldwide - www.M38A1Jeep.us @M38A1Jeep - Photographer Credit: Carlos Varon. Website and Blog Production: Frank Shane U.S. Army Combat Medevac - Vietnam Huey UH-1 LZ Dustoff www.M38A1Jeep.us @M38A1Jeep

75/ALIVE | VIETNAM VETERANS

The approximate percentage of Vietnam-era veterans who are still alive is 75.

Some online estimates suggest that the number is much more stark: Only one-third of Vietnam veterans are still alive, these Web sites say, and the survivors are going fast.

But as Patrick S. Brady made clear in an article for The VVA Veteran, the magazine of the Vietnam Veterans of America, the reality is more reassuring. The rumor illustrates the danger of using incompatible numbers from different sources.

It was apparently based on an estimate that 800,000 Vietnam-era veterans had died by 2000. That number was reasonable: About 9.2 million Americans served in the military during the Vietnam era (1964-75), so that would mean about 8 percent of them had died and 92 percent were still alive.

The problem arose when someone applied the 800,000 figure to a different denominator: 2.7 million, the estimated number of veterans who actually served in Vietnam, rather than at home or in some other theater. This made it appear that nearly one-third of those veterans were dead in 2000 and that they were dying at a rate of almost 400 a day. That would have meant more than 100,000 deaths a year, or nearly two million between 2000 and 2015 — a path to near-total disappearance.

In reality, the death rate for Vietnam-era veterans in recent years has been comparable to or lower than that of other men in their age group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of the men with the age distribution of Vietnam-era veterans who were alive in 2000, about 12 percent had died by 2010, with about 1.5 percent of the survivors projected to die each year since then.

M38A1 Jeep | K-9 Vet Salute

This Blog is about my 1962 Vietnam War M38A1 Jeep. My AIT medical corps training was at Fort Sam Houston, Texas – Class 46 – Company C – 2nd Bn.  Basic at Fort Ord and AIT/Medic, Fort Sam Houston. My M38A1 is a way to connect with soldiers, veteran families and military organizations.

M38A1 WITH HUEY  UH-1 MediVac ‘slick” chopper

The best day for me is when a veteran family member or child rides in my Jeep wearing my Nam field jacket or helmet (much too large for their head) asking questions about the war or relating stories as told to them by their dad or grandfather. A wife or loved one will start talking . . . a short Jeep ride is restorative and forms a common bond