The Wyoming Army National Guard hosted a deployment ceremony in Cheyenne for G Company, Second Battalion, 211th Aviation who will be traveling to Afghanistan.
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CHEYENNE - Four Platte County warriors will be heading to Afghanistan soon to fly wounded soldiers and civilians out of harm’s way to safety and medical care.
The Wyoming Army National Guard hosted a deployment ceremony in Cheyenne for G Company, Second Battalion, 211th Aviation who will be traveling to Afghanistan after stopping at Fort Bliss, Texas for additional mobilization training with troops from New Jersey, New York and Mississippi.
The soldiers of the G Company, commonly call the Golf Company, are trained in medical evacuation - often shortened to medivac. Each team consists of two pilots to fly the Black Hawk helicopter, crew chief and a flight medic. The team flies in to pick up wounded individuals and takes them to a higher level of medical care.
“There’s 29 of us going and we’ve been working together for over a year,” explained Wheatland native Logan Koerwitz, pilot and commander of the division. “We love our job and our mission and it’s time to get to work doing it.”
Scott Koenig, the son of Mike and Ann Koenig of Wheatland, is also a pilot and is second in charge of the platoon. He explained that the medics are really the rock stars. “We use speed to get them where they need to be, and they save people.”